The British Foreign Office in London. File photoLONDON, Apr 14The UK has imposed sanctions on Russian businessmen Yevgeny Tenenbaum and David Davidovich, the British Foreign Office said. «The UK today imposed sanctions on Yevgeny Tenenbaum and David Davidovich, bringing the total number of oligarchs , their family members and partners, who have been sanctioned since February, has reached 106,» the message says.Anti-Russian sanctions have turned into a «gloomy forecast» for BritainAccording to Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, who leads to the Foreign Office, the British government will freeze assets associated with these businessmen, totaling up to 10 billion pounds, which will be «the largest asset freeze in history Great Britain». In addition, a travel ban was imposed on Davidovich, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. It is indicated that these sanctions were consistent with the actions taken by the authorities of Jersey (British Crown Dependency in the English Channel) earlier this week to freeze assets, over £5 billion allegedly linked to businessman Roman Abramovich.
"We will continue to apply sanctions until (Russian President) Putin fails in Ukraine. Nothing and no one is excluded from the discussion", Truss added.
The Foreign Ministry stressed that Tenenbaum called himself one of Abramovich's closest business partners. «Corporate documents show that Tenenbaum gained control of Evrington Investments Limited, an investment company linked to Abramovich, on February 24, immediately after Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine. Tenenbaum, who is a director of Chelsea Football Club, is subject to an asset freeze. Davidovich was described by Forbes as Abramovich's «much less visible right-hand man» and acquired Evrington Investments from Tenenbaum in March 2022. He is subject to an asset freeze and travel ban. against seven Russian businessmen, including Abramovich. Those sanctioned are banned from entering the UK, and their assets in the country are frozen. The English Premier League has removed Abramovich from the management of Chelsea, which he has owned since 2003. Abramovich handed over management of Chelsea to a charitable trust and said he had decided to sell the club. The British government must approve the license to sell, but it will not allow Abramovich to receive any proceeds from the deal. launched a military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.