Vitaly Smagin v. Compagnie Monegasque De Banque

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

VITALY IVANOVICH SMAGIN, No. 21-55537 Plaintiff-Appellant, D.C. No. v. 2:20-cv-11236-

RGK-PLA

ASHOT YEGIAZARYAN, AKA Ashot Egiazaryan, an individual;

COMPAGNIE MONÉGASQUE DE OPINION

BANQUE, AKA CMB Bank; NATALIA DOZORTSEVA, an individual; ARTEM EGIAZARYAN, an individual; VITALY GOGOKHIA, an individual; MURIELLE JOUNIAUX, an individual; RATNIKOV EVGENY NIKOLAEVICH, an individual;

PRESTIGE TRUST COMPANY, LTD.; H.

EDWARD RYALS, an individual; ALEXIS GASTON THIELEN, an individual; STEPHAN YEGIAZARYAN, AKA Stephan Egiazarian, an individual; SUREN YEGIAZARYAN, AKA Suren Egiazaryian, an individual, Defendants-Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California R. Gary Klausner, District Judge, Presiding Argued and Submitted April 6, 2022 Pasadena, California

Filed June 10, 2022

Before: Mary M. Schroeder and Susan P. Graber, Circuit Judges, and Stephen M. McNamee, * District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Graber

SUMMARY **

RICO

The panel reversed the district court’s dismissal, for lack of statutory…