Lawyers for oligarch claim freezing of £5.3bn of assets ‘unfair and abusive’ amid row over use of funds for Ukraine
Roman Abramovich has gone to the European court of human rights (ECHR), claiming that a criminal investigation into his financial affairs by the Jersey authorities has breached his human rights, according to reports.
The former owner of Chelsea FC, who is sanctioned in the UK over his links to Vladimir Putin, is under investigation in Jersey over allegations of corruption and money laundering.
In a claim filed to the ECHR, lawyers for Abramovich said the actions taken by the Channel Island, where £5.3bn of his assets are frozen, were “unfair and abusive”.
The investigation has previously led a company owned by the billionaire oligarch to warn that the £2.4bn proceeds of the sale of Chelsea, which have been promised to the victims of the Ukraine war but are yet to be released, could be viewed by Jersey as the proceed of crime.
