Dmytro Kovalenko has filed a court action in Dublin against Google Ireland as the Ukrainian coal tycoon seeks to identify who is behind a campaign of “fake news” about his business affairs. In December last year, Kovalenko published a statement on the website of his Swiss-based group of companies called Adelon denouncing various claims made about his business and saying he and his business were the “objects of an attack” by unnamed competitors whose “goal is to discredit and undermine” his businesses. Kovalenko said his lawyers had been monitoring the “spread of so-called fake news” from January 2022 that were…

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