District Court, District of Columbia December 12, 2016, Civil Action No. 2015-1966 (Estate of Yevgenyi Scherban v. Suntrust Bank)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

DEBORAH A. TRUDEL, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v. Civil Action No. 15-1966 (JEB)

SUNTRUST BANK, et al.,

Defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

Reading like the plot of one of John le Carré’s Cold War novels, the Complaint in this

case opens with the assassinations of Yevgenyi Scherban, a Ukrainian politician and

businessman, and Nadejda Nikitina, his wife.