It became known which Russians’ assets were frozen by the UK authorities.
Seven businessmen from the Russian Federation, including Roman Abramovich, were included in the UK sanctions lists.
This is stated in a document of the British Foreign Ministry published on the government’s website.
In addition to the ex-owner of Chelsea, the British authorities have frozen the assets of Alexey Miller, Oleg Deripaska, Igor Sechin, Nikolai Tokarev, Andrei Kostin and Dmitry Lebedev.
At the same time, Abramovich and Deripaska are prohibited from making transactions in the UK. There are also restrictions on yachts and private planes for them.
All businessmen from the list were banned from entering the UK.
The seven merchants mentioned in the list are called by the British Foreign Ministry “the richest and most influential Russian oligarchs ”. Their total wealth is estimated at about $19.76 billion.
Before that, the UK introduced restrictive measures on the defense industry, the financial and transport sector of the Russian Federation.
Earlier, topNews wrote that the UN called for the abandonment of sanctions that hit ordinary citizens. In particular, the organization questioned the benefits of restrictions on the supply of vaccines from COVID-19.