Release it to who? A sanctioned individual? And you sure as hell can’t just take the money without turning the heads of all the other billionaires who use London as a laundrette.
Oh look we’re in the news again
2.34b sounds like nothing these days, billions are banded about so much that it just becomes a word and means very little.
‘Lord’ Cameron. Jesus fuckin Christ.
He seized that 2.34 billion.
He should definitely do his job and release that 1.34 billion he’s holding soon.
In fact he should go the the bank right now and release that 340 million.
Go right to the office, get the account and wire that 34 million out to where it should properly be.
once the 3.4 million reaches its final destination, we can all be happy the right thing was done.
That money is still just sitting there??? Wtf is he doing?
The money is just resting in the account.
Send him to Craggy Island
Down with this sort of thing!
Can you imagine the interest on £2.34 billion held for 18 months? Chching…
As I understand it, the only reason the money is still sitting there is because the British government wants to renege on an undertaking that the money is to be used exclusively for the benefit of Ukraine.
And is hoping Lord Cameron’s ‘stature’ will help.
Gaining interest.
British Government Thieving again
Oh no, the poor Russian
Maybe he should follow through and set up a charitable foundation with no ties to him to receive the money like he said he would
He’s sanctioned, he’s never seeing that money no matter how many sham “charities” he promises they’ll go to lol
Think what you want of him that’s absolutely fair.
My point is purely that it’s wild that a government can do something like that.
Imagine now tomorrow morning they show up at your door kick you out and say you have to sell up but they are keeping the money?
Right! But… if you illegally invaded another country, committed war crimes and thrown elections across the free world. Maybe, just maybe, the democratically elected government in which you reside might want to use that for good. Rather, than say, more cluster bombs on children?
Roman did none of these things what the hell are you on about
But they aren’t using it for good.
They are collecting interest on the money.
The British government doesn’t hold any high ground now let’s be honest.
Compared to Putin? Go read a book pal.
Not pointing fingers but most books about British history are far far worse than what Russia is doing, remember the whole empire thing ? How do you think they got it ?
America does that all the time
Whataboutism is not a valid defense. It’s bad no matter who does it.
You missed the point
The bloke is always welcome to come back and ask for it.
I wonder what’s holding him 🙂
Thieving filthy Russian oil money. The horror.
Well it’s actually aluminium money
I mean 5% interest is like 115 million… seems like British taxpayers should ask them to open a savings account
You don’t get 5% on that figure.
I was being tongue in cheek
He’s sanctioned so can’t touch it.
This is the correct answer.
For example, until recently* the UK held onto a substantial debt owed to Iran for undelivered tanks. We readily admit this money is/was thers, but could not pay it due to sanctions.
*-I’m not very up to date whether this was resolved as a trade for Nazanin Ratcliffe or not
WAIT! Dave is a Lord now?
Bit late, but he got made a Lord to become Foreign Secretary, as cabinet ministers have to be sitting in Parliament.
If I remember correctly sometime in the past, the UK government began offering ex-PMs non-hereditary peerages.
He only got it a couple of weeks ago because Sunak appointed him Foreign Secreatry, which is why in this case the pressure’s on him specifically.
Cabinet members have to be in parliament.
Since he isn’t an MP, he had to be put into the House of Lords.
Can someone explain this in simpler terms
The owner of Chelsea was Russian. Russia was sanctioned. The owner was forced to sell. The government withheld the money owed to the Russian owner as part of the sanctions. The money was promised to Ukrainian war victims. They appear to still be withholding it either out of bureaucratic incompetence or a greed for the interest generated from it.
Why does the British government get to keep all the money? Did he use British loans to buy the team and they’re collecting on it?
With this govt it’s so hard to know where greed starts and incompetence begins.
The money was promised to victims of the war in Ukraine. A small difference in phrasing is a massive difference in what can be done with the funds. Abramovich wanted them to be for both Russian and Ukraine civilians.
Lmao and you believe that? It would have been laundered and spent on yet another superyacht of his.
This is the same dude who’s aluminum (one part of his portfolio mind you) that is building Russia’s airforce, naval weapons, tanks, etc.
Absolutely delusional how many football fans dick ride Abramovich still
Are you okay mate? I was just making a correction on what he promised.
Yank alert
Maybe the uk government had a lightbulb moment and decided the interest generated from it would go towards the costs associated with housing Ukrainian refugees in the UK .
Torys dont do this sort of thing off their own back. Remember how they’d only feed kids because of Marcus Rashford? Its not likely they’re putting the interest to any worthy cause.
No, HE was sanctioned. I would imagine that Abramovich has some legal avenues still open and that is what is causing the delay.
So the English government is in the wrong and Abramovich hasn’t received money for selling the club
The British government isn’t in the “wrong.” It purposefully chose to sanction Abramovich due to his connections to Putin.
they took it out of greed and are keeping it out of greed. there was never any other element to the situation.
Or the fact that one of Abramovichs steel companies was providing steel for Russian tanks.
The government isn’t getting anything out of it. The money technically isn’t theirs. It’s frozen assets, not seized. They are just refusing to unfreeze it until there’s some proof that Abramovich is actually going to do with it what he promised, and that it isn’t secretly helping the Russian war effort.
DODGY DAVE
Doesn’t matter what happens with these funds. They’ll end up in some greedy shits pocket.
Dibs
Lord Cameron?😂
He is a lord. He fucked a decapitated pig head. He was also PM. None of these things, sadly, are a joke.
I’m laughing because this guy is a Lord now. Politics.
10 league point deduction for UK FC
We all know once it’s released to “all victims of the war” a token amount might go to a charity for Ukraine but the vast majority will go to some dodgy charity for the Russian war dead that will magically disappear into the exact pockets this whole process was meant to starve.
Lord Cameron, they are literally taking the p**s.
Mate what you worried about you’ve now got a Lord in your fans
Lord? What happened to James?