Lev Leviev’s Daughter at Center of NY Court Case

Chagit Sofiev-Leviev.

(IDEX Online News) – Chagit Sofiev-Leviev, the daughter of billionaire Israeli diamantaire Lev Leviev, is at the center of a lawsuit over Taly Diamonds (N.Y.) Ltd., a New York business that she half-controls.

Sofiev-Leviev, aged 27, is unfairly trying to take control of liquidating Taly as president of partner LGC USA Holdings Inc., according to a Delaware Chancery Court lawsuit filed yesterday in Wilmington, Bloomberg News reports.

Through LGC, Sofiev-Leviev is “seeking to extract undeserved consideration from Taly,” which has thousands of diamonds, through a “fire sale,” according to the complaint against LGC by Taly and its manager, Yaron Turgeman, the report says.

Taly alleges Sofiev-Leviev interfered with the business by demanding that she sign all business checks, and that she wrongly raised suspicions that someone was seen sneaking down a back stairway with a “large brown paper bag,” when it was only an office manager taking checks to a company bookkeeper.

Lawyers for Taly seek a court injunction to allow it to control the wind-down of the business, and to exclude LGC from the process.