Portugal holds rabbi who granted citizenship to Abramovich – DW – 12/03/2022
Authority of the British club this Saturday (10/03) a rabbi responsible for issuing a Russian certificate of start of Portugal to British football oligarch Chelsea, of Portuguese citizenship on Saturday 2.
Abramovich is one of the billionaires whose assets were blocked by the United Kingdom for ties to the Kremlin, as a result of the invasion of Ukraine ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The British governor who claimed he “is one of the few oligarchs of the 1990s to maintain prominence under Putin”.
The detained rabbi is a resident of the city of Porto and was detained while preparing to travel to Israel. He was interrogated for two hours and then released on condition that he surrender his passport. The rabbi was also banned from leaving his home for more than five days without informing the authorities.
The investigation into the investigation of irregularities committed in processes involving foreign nationality of Portuguese nationality to descendants of the investigation process carried out with foreign nationality after the peninsula16. claim to be a descendant of Sephardic juveniles.
The investigation predates the start of the Ukraine war. On January 19, the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic of Portugal informed the process of granting Abramovich Portuguese nationality. Other people responsible for issuing certificates of nationality in the city of Porto are also under investigation, but so far only the rabbi has been detained.
Who is Abramovich
The 55-year-old has stakes in metallurgy Evraz, Norilsk Nickel and has owned Chelsea since 2003. In 2005, he sold a 73% stake in Russian oil company Sibneft to state-owned gas giant Gazprom for €11.7 billion ( BRL 64.8 billion). His net worth is currently estimated at 11.2 billion euros (R$ 62 billion).
Abramovich’s UK investor visa expired in 2018, the year he is an Israeli national. In 2021, Abramovich became a Portuguese citizen through the law that benefits the descendants of Sephardic youth.
In early March, Abramovich announced that he would sell Chelsea “due to the current situation” of the invasion of Ukraine and promised to allocate the proceeds to a foundation to care for the victims of the conflict. The British government’s blockade of its assets prevented the sale, however.
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