Arkady Aleksandrovich Gaydamak

Omega was part owned by Russian-Israeli billionaire Arkady Gaydamak and diamond dealer Lev Leviev...

It culminated in the 2009 conviction of French former Interior Minister Charles Pasqua Jean-Christophe Mitterrand and two French-Israeli confidants of Dos Santos Pierre Falcone and Arkady Gaydamak...

The document requests answers about some US$387 million it says were received by Israeli diamond magnate Arkady Gaydamak (AC Vol 53 No 16 Secrets are not forever) Franco-Algerian middleman Pierre Falcone (AC Vol 49 No 19) Russian oligarch Vitaly Malkin and four prominent Angolans (see Box The Abalone list)...

Russian-Israeli billionaire Arkady Gaydamak failed to convince the London High Court he had a case against diamond-dealer Lev Leviev in mid-June (AC Vol 53 No 14 Rocks and hard men)...

Arkady Gaydamak and Lev Leviev fought over millions of dollars in Angolan diamond sales...

Uzbekistan-born Israeli diamond magnate Lev Leviev who has major interests in Angola and Namibia is pitted against his former ally Russian-Israeli oligarch Arkady Gaydamak (AC Vol 42 No 11 Lev Leviev takes on De Beers)...

Last month the Russian-Israeli businessman Arkady Gaydamak – recently cleared by a French appeal court of illicitly supplying arms to Angola – claimed that he had also been part of the Ascorp consortium...

Russian-Israeli Arkady Gaydamak tried in absentia and his French business partner Pierre Falcone received six years for organising the transhipment of $790 million of arms to Angola and breaking United Nations' sanctions in 1993-1998...

‘Sacha’ Gaydamak is the son of the Israeli-based businessman Arkady Gaydamak who faces charges of fraud and money-laundering by French prosecutors...

The central figures are Pierre-Joseph Falcone and Arkady Gaydamak the managers of Brenco France which arranged some US$790 million of arms deals to Angola from 1993 to 1998 thereby breaking United Nations’ sanctions at the time...