Posted on 03/01/2022 3:51:28 PM PST by nickcarraway
Chelsea Football Club owner, Roman Abramovich is reported to have been effectively barred from living in Britain ever again.
This comes after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine was also confirmed on Thursday, 24 February.
The Russian billionaire has not been seen at Stanford Bridge, Chelsea’s home as well as his home
He withdrew his application for a British Tier 1 investor visa in 2018, after reported delays in his application following criticism of Russian oligarchs in the wake of the Salisbury poisonings.
The Daily Mail reports that Abramovich has business connections to Russian President Vladimir Putin. He has, however, denied the allegation.
According to The Sun, senior security sources now claimed it is unlikely that the 55-year-old will ever be allowed to live in Britain again.
Immigration officials are reportedly under instructions to make it impossible for Abramovich who owns a £125million mansion near Kensington Palace in the UK.
It is understood his case is being handled by the Home Office’s secretive “Special Cases Unit”.
It is part of the Security and Counter-Terrorist directorate which handles top-secret matters of national security.
However, there is no suggestion that Abramovich is connected to terrorism or involved in wrongdoing.
In 2018, the billionaire became an Israeli citizen, allowing him to enter for Britain for up to six months.
He used his Israeli passport last October to make a short trip to London.
Since Abramovich arrived at Chelsea, the club has won 18 major trophies including the European Champions League twice, the English Premier League five times and has won the FA Cup on five occasions.
But they’ll happily let in Muslim terrorists?!
This is outright madness and jingoism on the part of LEFTISTS.
I really do not care one bit. He could probably get in here through the southern border like everyone else does though. He could get a free smartphone, monthly stipend, free food and healthcare too.
He is Jewish, and an Israeli citizen. Just because he was born in Southern Russia, and made megabucks under Yeltsin, I’m not sure why he needs to be banned. George Soros was a Nazi synpathizer, and once wrecked the British pound, yet they don’t ban him.
Said the pontificating, moralizing "special person" who will cry like a slapped baby when they do the same thing to him and cancel him in his own country.
My advice to Nazis is to take a nap under a bus.
I used "special person" for the mods but you know my real opinion of you.
Really beyond the pale that they are doing this.
This is getting a bit over the top. They REALLY want us to forget about Covid.
So uh....if you are Russian you get treated like the Nazi’s treated the Jews..well..except for the gas chamber part of it.
Your very solid question leads to a very uncomfortable answer.
Russian oligarchs, many of whom made their billions under a kleptocracy, stand to lose everything under the sanctions. No more villas in Tuscany. No more mansions on the French Riviera. No more artwork. No more mega yachts. No more football teams. Everything.
They're being targeted with the belief that these are the only people who might be able to restrain Putin.
I don’t think he should be banned, but I think you are underselling it. Abramaovich was the one who told Yeltsin to make Putin his successor. Without him, Putin might be a former KGB that you never heard of.
Just like the hysteria in 1914.
Also, Abramovich had approval rights for Putin’s early cabinets, and he picked Medvedev. His biographer said he is Putin’s father figure.
The Southern border is the Atlantic Ocean.
It's inaccurate to say he was a Nazi sympathizer. Maybe a collaborationist. He delivered slips of paper.
He didn't "wreck the British Pound," he blackmailed the British government into doing what he wanted, by threatening to devalue the Pound.
Meanwhile, Asian grooming gangs rule the streets of Alba.
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