Assets frozen for 15 billion pounds. No one in London, person or company, will be able to conduct business with the Chelsea tycoon or the other six key men of Vladimir Putin’s system of power.
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LONDON – A hit worth 15 billion pounds, almost 18 billion euros: that inflicted by the government of Boris Johnson on seven Russian oligarchs in the lead Roman Abramovich
which has seen all assets seized and imposed a total ban from Great Britain. No one in London, person or company, will be able to conduct business with the tycoon who owns the Chelsea team the other six key men of Vladimir Putin’s system of power.
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The British government has enacted a special license to allow Chelsea to continue playing matches in the Premier League, with the aim of “protecting his loyal fans”. Last week Abramovich he had announced his intention to sell the team and to allocate the proceeds to the victims of the war (both Ukrainian and Russian): a move dictated by the attempt to escape the sanctions, which in the end almost hit him equally. And precisely because of the new sanctions too the sale of the club has been suspended.
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London’s squeeze on the oligarchs is very hard: so far Abramovich, perhaps the most famous Russian tycoon abroad, had not been targeted by either the European Union or the United States. But both Brussels and Washington had gone further in hitting men linked to Putin’s regime, while Johnson had been accused of being too hesitant in taking action against “Londongrad”, that tangle of Russian affairs and interests that has settled in the heart for years. of the City.
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But now Boris has broken the delay: There can be no free ports for those who supported Putin’s ferocious assault on Ukraine – said the premier -. We will be ruthless in prosecuting those who allow the killing of civilians, the destruction of hospitals and the illegal occupation of sovereign allies. And Foreign Minister Liz Truss added that today’s sanctions show that oligarchs and kleptocrats have no place in our economy or society. For their close ties with Putin they are accomplices of his assault: the blood of the Ukrainian people on their hands.
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Together with Abramovich, the London government has imposed sanctions against Oleg Derispaskaenergy and aluminum tycoon with a large portfolio of properties in the UK, but mostly against Igor Sech
in, head of Rosneft, the Russian state oil company: he is one of Putin’s closest allies and leader of the siloviki faction, the “men of force” from the secret services who command the Kremlin. In the list there is also Alexei Millerthe head of Gazprom, the Russian gas giant, next to Andrey Kostinpresident of the bank for foreign trade, a Nikolai Tokarev, president of the Transneft pipeline company, ea Dmitri Lebedev, president of Rossiya bank. In short, all the elite of Putinian power.
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March 10, 2022 (change March 10, 2022 | 12:45 pm)
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