A London property firm had its bank accounts frozen after openDemocracy revealed its ongoing links to a Russian oligarch.
Alisher Usmanov sold his stake in Curzon Square Ltd just three days before the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, amid mounting pressure on Western governments to sanction Vladimir Putin’s allies.
The billionaire was able to legally transfer the stake to his Russian business empire less than a fortnight before he was personally slapped with a “full asset freeze”.
