Let us also recall that, in addition to money, Ilyumzhinov demands the apology in the court because the US Treasury has included him in its sanctions list "for materially assisting and acting for and on behalf of the Government and Central Bank of Syria".
Incidentally, according to the head of FIDE, the money received, as an outcome of the lawsuit, "he is ready to invest in the development of chess in order to revive the spirit of Bobby Fischer in America".