Greene never filled out a police report about Tice, nor did he contact any law enforcement office, but one year after Tice filed his libel lawsuit Greene filed an arbitration demand with JudicialArbitration and Mediation Services against Tice and LB Property Management, which the sitting arbitrator dismissed in 2008.
In a statement to parliament Mr Khurshid said that Italian requests "for diplomatic or expert level meetings" to consider the issue of jurisdiction in the case - "or whether it can be referred to arbitration or any other judicial mechanism cannot be accepted".
Sapir's marathon legal proceedings--the 26th judicial hearing in the MOR dispute, an arbitration in London, begins in secrecy in May--opens a window on an enduring feature of Russian life: the bitter battles between clans of politicians and business leaders.