Oleg Tinkov

The UK lifted some of its sanctions on 24 March on Tinkoff Bank founder Oleg Tinkov and Millhouse chairman Yevgeny Shvidler (business partner of Roman Abramovich).

The country’s government has decided to lift the restrictions that threaten to seize the entrepreneurs’ yachts and planes. Their vehicles can now enter UK ports, fly in airspace and land at airports as before. Businessmen themselves are allowed to cross country borders.

In total, there are 59 Russian officials, entrepreneurs, banks and companies on the British sanctions list, which includes asset freezes. Among them, in addition to Tinkov and Shvidler, there are Alexander Vedyakhin, the first deputy chairman of the bank’s board of directors, and Lev Khasis, chairman of Sberbank German Gref, former vice chairman.

Oleg Tinkov with his family

According to Forbes, Britain considered Tinkov to “benefit from the Russian government” by owning and controlling financial sector enterprises of “strategic importance” to the state. Tinkov objected, saying he had “never been to the Kremlin” and built his fortune on his own, without ties to the government. Therefore, the billionaire asked not to be called an “oligarch”.

Earlier, Oleg Tinkov opposed the military special operation, which began in Ukraine on February 24, at the behest of Vladimir Putin.

– the businessman wrote on social networks, referring to his struggle with leukemia.

Pyotr Aven, former chairman of Alfa-Bank’s board of directors, complained in an interview with the Financial Times, previously sanctioned by the West, that he did not know how to continue living in London in the current circumstances.