A United States Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court ruling that denied Russian claimant Yulia Guryeva-Motlokhov access to financial records linked to Prime Minister Gaston Browne and associated entities.
According to Antigua News Room, the appellate court found that Guryeva-Motlokhov's request for discovery was too speculative and failed to meet the required legal threshold under US law. The ruling affirms the earlier decision to quash the subpoenas in full.
The court determined that the materials sought were not clearly intended for use in active or reasonably anticipated foreign proceedings — a key legal requirement under the applicable US statute. That finding proved fatal to the discovery bid, with the appellate panel siding with the lower court's reasoning in its entirety.
The dispute is connected to the high-profile Alfa Nero case, which has drawn significant attention to Antigua and Barbuda and its government. Guryeva-Motlokhov had sought the financial records as part of that broader legal matter, but the US courts have now twice rejected her efforts to obtain them through the American judicial system.
