Mikhail Fridman. Archival photoMOSCOW, June 10 The information that Alfa Group co-founder Mikhail Fridman wants to obtain Ukrainian citizenship is fake, a company representative told RIA Novosti. On Thursday, the head of the Ukrainian National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption ( NAPC) Alexander Novikov, in an interview with the Ukrainian edition of Forbes, said that Russian businessman Mikhail Fridman wants to obtain Ukrainian citizenship in order to circumvent sanctions. «Alfa-Bank's plan to invest in Ukraine» This is a fake. These are fakes inspired to defame the reputation of the group's shareholders, «said the agency's source in Alfa Group. Earlier, Fridman, who fell under Western sanctions, told the Spanish newspaper País that he doesn't even have enough money to go to a restaurant. He urged Western countries to be «smarter» when imposing sanctions, since «punishing Russians only for the fact of being Russian increases confrontation and the number of supporters of anti-Western policies in Russia.» Western countries have introduced several packages of sanctions against the Russian Federation because of Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the policy of containment and weakening of Russia is a long-term strategy of the West, and the sanctions dealt a serious blow to the entire world economy. He also said that the current events draw a line under the global dominance of the West in both politics and economics. billionaires
