Russian tycoon sues after appearing in virtual ‘Russian mafia cards’

This Russian tycoon got dealt the wrong hand– and now he is suing a Manhattan cultural group for $50 million over the flap.

Moscow executive Victor Remsha filed the scathing defamation lawsuit against a "purported research organization" called the Institute for Russian Research in Manhattan civil court on Thursday for including him among notorious criminals in a virtual deck of "Russian mafia cards."

The playing cards first popped up online on May 4, 2013, but have since been removed following cease and desist letter from Remsha's attorney, the suit says.

The Queen of Spades identified Remsha as "the founder of a major investment company that is linked to money laundering activities to the Russian organized crime groups," according to a copy of posting.

Remsha runs an investment services, brokerage, internet advertisement and asset management firm called Finam Investment Holding, but he says in court papers that the links to criminal activities and underworld figures are false.

The Soho-based Institute for Russian Research published the deck along with a press release saying that the cards show "key figures of the Russian criminal underworld 'will be sent to the FBI, to police departments of cities with Russian-speaking communities and to the US Congress,'" according to the filing.

The group said the "Russian mafia has become an international phenomenon, a significant player in the criminal world, and we believe that the US has to recognize the fact of Russian mafia's
presence in the United States. We believe that the deck of cards should shine a spotlight on tis problem," according to a copy of the press statement including with the suit.

Remsha says the posting will damage his reputation in the states where he is looking to expand his business. A number of Russian language publications re-posted the deck and release.

He was grouped with 47 unsavory targets including convicted arms dealer Viktor Bout and mafioso Semion Mogilevich.

The 290-pound gangster is on the FBI's ten most wanted fugitive list for his role in a multi-million investment fraud in the 1990s.

Reps for the research group, including named defendants Gregory Wooster, Timothy Wooster, Michael Zvonov and Idoya Salgado, did not immediately return messages for comment.

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