San Jose — Google was ordered by a US judge to turn over the content of e-mails of the son of Farkhad Akhmedov to the Russian oligarch’s former wife in her pursuit of a £450m divorce judgment.

The skirmish over the e-mail accounts is part of one of London’s largest divorce fights — involving a super yacht in Dubai and litigation funder Burford Capital — which landed before a judge in San Jose, California, in the federal court closest to Google’s Mountain View headquarters 22km away...

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