Tauction rush, kidnapping of a Chinese competitor … The British media unveiled a striking investigation on Tuesday about the business of the owner of Chelsea.
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In addition to the sanctions, the accusations continue. Roman Abramovich, owner of Chelsea and Russian oligarch supposedly close to the Kremlin, is in I’eye cyclone since Russia invaded Ukraine. The BBC, British public television channel, unveiled an investigation on Monday March 14, where it claims to have new evidence on “corruption cases” which allowed the native of Saratov to get rich.
The media from across the Channel explains that it has read classified documents from the Moscow police, pointing to the criminal enrichment and corruption that Roman Abramovich allegedly demonstrated before acquiring the London football club in 2003.
The English media evokes a bid rigging for the purchase of an oil company in 1995. It also describes how negotiations for the acquisition of another company would have led to the kidnapping of a Chinese competitor in 2002. “Nothing suggests” thatAbramovich “knew about this kidnapping”however, specifies the BBC.
A BBC investigation has unearthed new evidence into the corruption deals that made the fortune of Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea FC.https://t.co/4H5FXoifQK pic.twitter.com/QMO2nTIb2x
— BBC News Africa (@bbcafrique) March 15, 2022
According to the media, the owner of Chelsea, whose assets were frozen in the United Kingdom and then in Europe, would have escaped legal proceedings in Russia because of his closeness to the former Russian President Boris Yeltsin. These cases had already been talked about before and emerge today in an increasingly hostile climate to Roman Abramovich in the United Kingdom.
“His lawyers say there is no evidence that he amassed a very large fortune through crime.”adds the BBC.