Chaim Shochet, a Miami-based manager of Optima, responded to Cleveland.com’s questions

Chaim Shochet, a Miami-based manager of Optima, responded to Cleveland.com’s questions about the Delaware suit, saying by email: “The allegations in this lawsuit – part of an orchestrated political attack by a Ukrainian bank against investors in our thriving businesses – are false, defamatory and utterly without merit. We intend not only to contest but to disprove these reckless allegations, and to demonstrate that they are part of a smear campaign driven by a Ukrainian political agenda that we have nothing to do with.”