‘We will spend £100m to help treat our daughter'
Sitting at the kitchen table of their renovated London villa — at times giggling or interrupting each another — Igor and Anastasia Bukhman don't seem so different from any other couple raising a family. One of their four children arrives clutching a cartoon book she's keen to recommend. Somewhere a labrador barks.
Things were very different a decade ago. He was building a successful mobile gaming business with his brother, Dmitry; she was looking after their first two toddlers — and in 2014 the family returned from a dream road trip to north Spain weighed down with worry. Perhaps it was the heat or the change of routine that had made their elder daughter, Sonya, so tired and thirsty. Nevertheless, Anastasia had decided that the
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