Over the past few hours, the United Kingdom has launched a new wave of sanctions against Russian personalities and Roman Abramovich may well be concerned.
Faced with the war led by Russia in Ukraine, European countries are increasing financial sanctions to make Vladimir Putin bend. For several weeks, Russian celebrities close to the president have been sanctioned and in recent hours, the United Kingdom has launched a new wave of sanctions against many personalities close to the Kremlin. The authorities of Jersey, a dependency of the British crown, announced on Wednesday the freezing of assets estimated at more than 7 billion dollars suspected of being linked to Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea, targeted by numerous sanctions from European countries since the start of the war in Ukraine because of his closeness to Vladimir Putin.
More than $7 billion of assets belonging to Roman Abramovich are frozen by authorities in Jersey, in the latest crackdown on offshore wealth held by sanctioned Russian billionaires https://t.co/3llZmCsMXx
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Roman Abramovich targeted by new sanctions?
In addition, searches were carried out in the premises suspected of being linked to the commercial activities of Roman Abramovich according to the press release from the Jersey authorities. More generally, the United Kingdom announced in the middle of the week, in coordination with the European Union, to expand the list of people sanctioned. 178 pro-Russian separatists but also new oligarchs and their relatives are now part of the list of people financially sanctioned. “The UK government is sanctioning, in coordination with the EU, 178 people who support illegal breakaway regions of Ukraine after widespread reports last week that Russia was barbarically targeting civilians in these regions” announced the United Kingdom in an official press release. Roman Abramovich, forced to sell Chelsea because of the numerous sanctions that have been pronounced against him in Great Britain, is therefore perhaps not at the end of his troubles…