Israeli private investigator Aviram Azari has worked "on surveillance and cyber-intelligence operations at the behest of Russian oligarchs," said independent journalist Scott Stedman in US court.
Ukraine's Donbass region, focus of recent Russian offensives, has been destroyed, President Zelenskyy says, while some of the world's richest countries pledge to bolster Kiev with billions of dollars as fighting enters its 86th day.
Russian oligarchs are estimated to hold "at least $1 trillion in wealth abroad, often concealed in offshore companies whose true ownership is hard to determine," the economists said in a letter to the G20.
The countries, part of a multilateral task force to tackle Russian oligarchs, agree to collect and share information with the goal of actions including sanctions, freezing and seizing assets and prosecution.
Selling the football club or transferring players are not included on the list of permitted activities under a special licence that has scuppered Roman Abramovich’s plans to offload the London club.
Sanctions start to pinch the rich and mighty as Western countries clamp down hard on Russians with ties to the President.
Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich believes it is in the "best interest" of the Champions League holders if he parts ways with the club he has transformed since his purchase in 2003.
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