The United States and the European Union opted for the economic alternative rather than the military one to punish Russia for the war in Ukraine. Thus, those who were targeted by the sanctions have been the oligarchs who make up the inner circle of the president Vladimir Putin.
According to international reports, some of these continue to invest in RussiaOthers have kept their money in overseas palatial estates and soccer clubs, and their companies continued to be listed on foreign stock exchanges. Some of them cannot be traced economically. However, now they will have to fight against the economic sanctions imposed.
This is what is known about some of them.
Alisher Usmanov
Alisher Usmanov he is one of the richest. According to Forbes, his fortune is estimated at US$17.6 billion. The European Union He describes him as a “businessman-official” who helps the president solve his business problems.
He has been sanctioned by the bloc on February 28 of this year; what’s more, USA The United Kingdom and the United Kingdom have followed suit. In his defense, Usmanov called the measures unfair and said all the accusations against him were false.
Roman Abramovich
Roman Abramovichthe owner of Chelsea FC, has not yet been sanctioned, possibly because his influence on the Kremlin. Despite this, he has repeatedly denied having close ties to Putin.
His fortune, worked since 1990, is valued at US $ 12,400 million. He began his heyday during the presidency of Boris Yeltsin. His biggest opportunity was to buy the Sibneft oil company at a knockdown price. Among his assets are his yacht Eclipse; and another mega yacht, Solaris.
On Wednesday March 2 he announced that he was looking to sell Chelsea for £3bn, and his £150m home in London’s Kensington Palace Gardens is up for sale.
Oleg Deripaska
Oleg Deripaksa he was already rich when Putin came to power. His wealth peaked at around US$28 billion, but his worth is now suspected to be only US$3 billion.
His monetary empire was built in a fierce battle for the aluminum industry during the 1990s.
United States charged him with money laundering, bribery, extortion and racketeering. Deripaska denies the accusations.
Following the 2008 financial crisis he founded a green metals and energy company, En+ Group, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange, but reduced his stake below 50% when it came under US sanctions in 2018.
Deripaska has been vocal about the war and has taken to social media to call for peace. “Negotiations must start ASAP!” she wrote.
Igor Sechin
People say that Igor Sechin he is one of Putin’s closest and most trusted advisers. The United States imposed sanctions on him in 2014, which he called “totally unjustified and illegal.” New penalties against him were announced on February 24.
Sechin has alternated his career in politics and business. When Putin was prime minister, he was deputy prime minister, and now he runs the state oil giant Rosneft. He was also at the side of the current Russian president in the office of the mayor of St. Petersburg in the 1990s, and is believed to have been part of the KGB intelligence service.
So far, it is unknown how much money he has. There is little sign that you have substantial offshore wealth that can be easily discovered, and it can be difficult to track down and freeze more of your assets.
alexey miller
alexey miller is another old friend of Vladimir Putin. He also built his career on loyalty to the president, beginning when he was Putin’s deputy on the foreign relations committee of the St. Petersburg mayor’s office in the 1990s.
He has run the immensely powerful state-owned gas company Gazprom since 2001, but it was a surprise appointment and he is only supposed to be carrying out orders from his former boss. The US ambassador to Moscow in 2009 described Gazprom as “inefficient, politically driven and corrupt”.
Miller was not sanctioned after the annexation of Crimea in 2014, but he was sanctioned when he was added to the US list in 2018.
He does not appear to have easily traceable assets outside of Russia and there is no information on his net worth.
Mikhail Fridmann
The EU describes Mikhail Fridmann as an enabler of Putin’s inner circle. Together, the two men created Alfa-Bank, the largest private bank in Russia.
Fridman, believed to be worth around $12 billion, lives in London, in a house next to Lord’s Cricket Ground, and also owns a huge estate, Athlone House, in north London, for which he it paid 65 million pounds in 2016.
At a news conference in London on Tuesday, he called the Ukraine war a “major tragedy” but would not directly criticize the Kremlin, saying doing so could put the jobs of hundreds of thousands of employees at risk.
With information from BBC News.
Source: Larepublica
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