BREAKING: Britain drops sanctions hammer on Putin pal Roman Abramovich, freezing the Chelsea Football Club
The sanctions will also have a more direct effect on his beloved club.
Chelsea, the current world champions, will no longer be able to sell tickets to games, so only existing season ticket holders will be able to attend its upcoming fixtures. Its merchandise store will be closed, the club won’t be able to spend more than $26,000 on travel to each game, and it will be impossible to buy or sell players or negotiate new contracts., the British government cited Abramovich’s decades-long “close relationship” with President Vladimir Putin to justify its sanctions.
The Chelsea owner was one of seven oligarchs to be hit in the fresh round of British sanctions alongside fellow notorious Russian billionaires Igor Sechin and Oleg Deripaska. Britain said the seven all have close links to Putin and an estimated collective net worth nearly $20 billion. “There can be no safe havens for those who have supported Putin’s vicious assault on Ukraine,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a statement announcing his latest anti-Putin moves. “Today’s sanctions are the latest step in the U.K.’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.
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