In March 1995, during the early years of the IFSC, a brass plate company called Eurotoaz set up in Dublin using a registered address at Clanwilliam Terrace in the docklands.  Describing itself as an import/export trader, the fledgling business and its Hungarian shareholders listed its chief asset as a $20 million investment in Russian chemical giant TogliattiAzot, better known as Toaz. Nobody could have guessed at the time that this purported acquisition would later prove a linchpin in a complex, multi-tentacled $2 billion conspiracy lawsuit with corporate interests sprawled halfway across the world. While the litigation is far from resolved, this…

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