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High Court of England and Wales tailors worldwide freezing injunction, excluding assets in Greece, in aid of Greek divorce proceedings; crypto assets; dissipation risk (Armeniakou v Thomson)

Published on: 10 February 2025

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Armeniakou v Thomson [2025] EWHC 149 (KB)

What was the background?

  • The claimant had earlier secured a freezing injunction over the defendant’s assets in England and Wales, backing ongoing Greek proceedings then concerning a divorce settlement
  • The claimant sought to widen the domestic order to capture the defendant’s assets globally, asserting he was dissipating, or at risk of dissipating, property overseas to evade any eventual final judgment
  • The defendant’s estate comprised cryptocurrency, shareholdings in crypto-related companies, and also further property situated in Greece
  • Earlier rulings recorded adverse findings about the defendant’s opacity and misleading evidence concerning his overall asset position
  • Litigation over the divorce settlement was still continuing in Greece at the time

What did the court decide?...

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