Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky has lost his High Court battle with Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich.

AN EXILED Russian oligarch has told a British trial that Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich was a “gangster”.

CHELSEA Football Club owner Roman Abramovich operated in a Russian state in which the “rule of law” had disappeared, police were “corrupt”, courts “open to manipulation” and businessmen needed access to a “political godfather”, a judge in London has heard.