Today, Hans Niemann filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court (Eastern District of Missouri, Eastern Division). Plaintiff Hans Moke Niemann, represented by his attorneys Oved & Oved LLP and local Missouri counsel The Gartner Law Firm, is seeking a total of 400 million USD in damages from “Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen aka Magnus Carlsen, Play Magnus as Play Magnus Group, Chess.com LLC, Daniel Rensch aka Danny Rensch, and Hikaru Nakamura”
Yosha Iglesias commented on the lawsuit, “Niemann seeks damages in an amount to be determined at trial, but no less than One Hundred Million Dollars ($100,000,000) It’s not the craziest part of the complaint… Cheating is no longer Hans’ biggest mistake in his career…”