New setback for him Tycoon Roman Abramovich, who until recently was the head of Chelsea. after the UK freeze their assets in the countryin addition to other sanctions in much of the world, now a British court has frozen new assets for a estimated value of $7 billion (about 6,400 million euros), being linked to the oligarch.
The newspaper Financial Times reveals that the decision court of Jersey, a British Crown dependency in the English Channel, takes place after the island’s police searched premises “suspected of being related to Abramovich’s business activities“. Such assets are located in Jersey, or otherwise owned by entities incorporated there.
“Police in the States of Jersey executed search warrants Tuesday April 12, 2022 on premises in Jersey suspected of being related to Roman Abramovich’s business activities,” the statement from the Department of Justice Officers from the country. jersey lies off the coast of Normandy, is an autonomous country and it is the United Kingdom that offers him military protection.
Change of ownership
The first sanctions for Abramovich came in March, shortly after the start of the war in Ukraine. Then the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelensky, asked his counterpart Joe Biden not to include him, in order to act as mediator. In one of the meetings for peace it was presumed poisonedalong with other members of the Ukrainian delegation.
The Guardian revealed last week that the Russian tycoon changed ownership of one of its superyachts, aquamarine, to a company based in Jersey, and managed by his partner David Davidovich. An event that occurred same day of the start of the Russian offensivealthough it is not clear that this is one of the assets frozen by the Jersey authorities.
Relationship with Jersey
In recent years the tycoon has been moving part of its investments from the Virgin Islands to Jersey. Among them are several helicopters and another of his superyachts, the Whisper. For its part, the Jersey edition of the Bailiwick Express ensures that his move to the island was planned for 2018. Something that did not happen due to a delay in renewing his UK visa, following the poisoning of former Russian military officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury.