• milkonyourmustache@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • Interkitten@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    2.34b sounds like nothing these days, billions are banded about so much that it just becomes a word and means very little.

  • hauttdawg13@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • Holiday_Document4592@alien.topB
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      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.

      • dispelthemyth@alien.topB
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        1 year ago

        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

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          He’s sanctioned, he’s never seeing that money no matter how many sham “charities” he promises they’ll go to lol

        • MemestNotTeen@alien.topB
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          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?

          • calewis10@alien.topB
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            1 year ago

            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?

      • kaiser1000@alien.topB
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        1 year ago

        The bloke is always welcome to come back and ask for it.

        I wonder what’s holding him 🙂

    • ShreddedDadBod@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      I mean 5% interest is like 115 million… seems like British taxpayers should ask them to open a savings account

      • WhyEveryoneAComedian@alien.topB
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        1 year ago

        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

    • pugiemblem121@alien.topB
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      Bit late, but he got made a Lord to become Foreign Secretary, as cabinet ministers have to be sitting in Parliament.

    • simbian@alien.topB
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      If I remember correctly sometime in the past, the UK government began offering ex-PMs non-hereditary peerages.

      • LiberalJames@alien.topB
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        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.

    • tothecatmobile@alien.topB
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      Cabinet members have to be in parliament.

      Since he isn’t an MP, he had to be put into the House of Lords.

    • Lego-105@alien.topB
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      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.

      • Its_Ace1@alien.topB
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        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?

      • Rorviver@alien.topB
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        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.

        • landel1234@alien.topB
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          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

        • West_Principle_8190@alien.topB
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          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 .

          • RefanRes@alien.topB
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            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.

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        No, HE was sanctioned. I would imagine that Abramovich has some legal avenues still open and that is what is causing the delay.

      • futurejoyboy@alien.topB
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        So the English government is in the wrong and Abramovich hasn’t received money for selling the club

        • ZookeepergameOpen817@alien.topB
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          The British government isn’t in the “wrong.” It purposefully chose to sanction Abramovich due to his connections to Putin.

      • AlreadyUnwritten@alien.topB
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        they took it out of greed and are keeping it out of greed. there was never any other element to the situation.

        • mvp-a1@alien.topB
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          Or the fact that one of Abramovichs steel companies was providing steel for Russian tanks.

        • THEBEAST666@alien.topB
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          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.

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    Doesn’t matter what happens with these funds. They’ll end up in some greedy shits pocket.

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    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.