Boris Johnson: UK to speed up sanctions against Russians
March 5, 2022, 11:35 am

Boris Johnson: UK to speed up sanctions against Russians

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson (File photo: Official Facebook page)

The Arab News reported, citing Reuters, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said thatBritain will be able to move more quickly to sanction Russian businessmen over President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine as a result of new legal measures which will be sent to parliament next week.

Asked by foreign correspondents in London why Roman Abramovich, the highest-profile Russian businessman in Britain due to his ownership of Chelsea Football Club, had not been sanctioned, Johnson said the government had to move carefully.

He was quoted as saying in the interview conducted on Friday by Italy’s La Repubblica and other newspapers: “None of us want to live in a country where the state can take your house off you without a very high burden of proof and due process."

Johnson added: “There’s no point saying, yeah, we’re going to go after him, and then you come up against the brick wall of lawyers. So we have to get it right. We’re also trying not to just make this about one individual.”

Britain has been criticized for not moving as quickly with sanctions against individuals as the European Union, the United States and Canada.

Я хочу звернутися безпосередньо до українців тут, у Великій Британії, й до тих, хто знаходиться в Україні та сусідніх країнах.
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Johnson said amendments to Britain’s economic crimes legislation due to be presented to parliament on Monday would help the government act with more speed.

He mentioned: “Top line of what our package on Monday will do is that the measures that you have against individual oligarchs in Europe will essentially allow us to catch them too."

Britain on Thursday sanctioned two more Russians — industrialist Alisher Usmanov and former deputy prime minister Igor Shuvalov.

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Abramovich said on Wednesday he would sell Chelsea Football Club and promised to donate money from the sale to help victims of the war in Ukraine.

Source: arabnews

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