Neither man came out looking the better of the encounter – a six-week High Court row over who owned $8 million. It was a bruising battle involving evidence of greed, deception, offshore accounts, bankruptcy, and a multi-million euro project to build a 380-metre tower in Astana, the capital city of Kazakhstan. While judgment was handed down in the case over a year ago, the initiation of fresh High Court proceedings by a UK bankruptcy official shows the dispute is still very much live. The original action was brought by HKR Middle East (HKRME), the architecture firm set up by one of…

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