Alisher Usmanov, the Uzbek billionaire shareholder of one of England’s top football clubs, is using his wealth to shut down websites that report allegations against him originally published by the former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray. Usmanov has employed the libel lawyers, Schillings, not to seek writs against Murray (who published the allegations nearly two years ago in his book Murder in Samarkand), but to pressurise ISPs simply to shut offending sites down.
