The oligarch was one of seven Russian billionaires to be added to be added to a sanctioned list in response to the invasion of Ukraine.
Roman Abramovich, the embattled owner of English soccer club Chelsea FC, has been sanctioned by the U.K. government, which has frozen his assets in the country.
The Russian was one of seven oligarchs — including Igor Sechin, Oleg Deripaska and Dmitri Levedev — to be officially added to the sanction list on Thursday in response to the invasion ofAbramovich — who had been under the media and political spotlight the U.K. due to his reported links to Russian president Vladimir Putin — last week put Chelsea up for sale, days after announcing that he was transferring the “stewardship” of the club to the trustees of its charitable foundation.
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