LONDON (Reuters) -A prominent Russian businessman cannot pause an $850 million fraud lawsuit brought by two Russian banks despite one of the banks being subject to British sanctions, the High Court in London ruled on Friday. Boris Mints and his sons Dmitry, Alexander and Igor are being sued by National Bank Trust, which is 99% owned by the Central Bank of Russia, on behalf of Bank Otkritie, once Russia’s largest private lender before it collapsed in 2017. Lawyers representing the Mints family – who deny the banks’ fraud allegations – say the lawsuit should be indefinitely put on hold because, …
