Oil tycoon suing Abramovich calls him ‘genius’

RUSSIAN oligarch Boris Berezovsky yesterday told the High Court that tycoon Rupert Murdoch was a “great businessman” and Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich a “genius”.

Berezovsky, 65, is suing Abramovich, 44, for billions of pounds after a fall-out over a Russian business deal and was giving evidence in the fifth day of a trial at the Commercial Court in London.

He said the Russian billionaire businessman “intimidated” him into selling shares in Russian oil company Sibneft at a fraction of their value.