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UK officially freezes assets of Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, sale of the club on hold

March 10, 2022
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The British government has frozen the assets of owner of Chelsea Football Club, Roman Abramovich under brutal new UK sanctions unveiled today.

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Abramovich is now among the seven oligarchs to be hit with an asset freeze and travel bans since the invasion of Ukraine by the order of the Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin.

The government announced that the owner of Chelsea FC will also be prohibited from transactions with UK individuals and businesses – meaning his plan to sell the club looks impossible.

UK Govt. freezes assets of Chelsea owner Roman Abramovic, 5 other Russian oligarchs worth £15bn
Roman Abramovich is among oligarchs to be hit with asset freeze and travel bans under new UK sanctions

Mr Abramovich’s one time business partner, Oleg Deripaska, has also been hit with the same measures – as have Rosneft chief Igor Sechin and four more described as being in Putin’s ‘inner circle’.

Speaking over the sanction, UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson said: ‘There can be no safe havens for those who have supported Putin’s vicious assault on Ukraine.

‘Today’s sanctions are the latest step in the UK’s unwavering support for the Ukrainian people. We will be ruthless in pursuing those who enable the killing of civilians, destruction of hospitals and illegal occupation of sovereign allies.’

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss added: ‘Today’s sanctions show once again that oligarchs and kleptocrats have no place in our economy or society. With their close links to Putin they are complicit in his aggression.

‘The blood of the Ukrainian people is on their hands. They should hang their heads in shame.

‘Our support for Ukraine will not waver. We will not stop in this mission to ramp up the pressure on the Putin regime and choke off funds to his brutal war machine.’

UK Govt. freezes assets of Chelsea owner Roman Abramovic, 5 other Russian oligarchs worth £15bn
An official death toll for the heinous attack has not yet been established but rescuers are working desperately to find and free those still trapped under the rubble with temperatures in the besieged city set to plunge to minus 4 degrees C overnight

The Foreign Office said the oligarchs have a collective net worth of around £15billion.

The surprise move came as Defence minister James Heappey insisted the bombing of a maternity hospital in Ukraine was a war crime and called for Putin and Russian generals to be held to account.

Mr Heappey stressed that the West is gathering evidence that can be used in a future prosecution, but said in a round of interviews: ‘What you see on your TV screens is a war crime.’

The comments came as it was confirmed three people, including a child, died when warplanes bombed the hospital in beseiged Mariupol as pregnant women gave birth in the basement.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has described the attack as an ‘atrocity’ and ‘the ultimate proof of genocide against Ukrainians’.

The hospital, in the besieged city of Mariupol, was hit ‘several times’ by high-explosive Russian bombs – one of which missed the building by yards and left a crater two-stories deep, officials said. Other bombs scored ‘direct hits’, President Zelensky said, wounding at least 17 people.

Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine’s deputy Prime Minister, said there can be ‘no doubt’ the hospital was deliberately ‘targeted’ by Russia in a chilling echo tactics used during the bombing of the Syrian city of Aleppo while Putin’s men were fighting alongside dictator Basahr al-Assad’s troops. Moscow denies targeting civilian facilities.

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