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Revealed: Sanctioned Russian oligarch still controls London property firm

Alisher Usmanov, the billionaire former Arsenal shareholder, still has ‘significant control’ over a company that owns a townhouse in Mayfair

Revealed: Sanctioned Russian oligarch still controls London property firm
Sanctioned Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov
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A Russian oligarch still controls a London property firm more than two weeks after the UK government sanctioned him, openDemocracy can reveal.

The news has raised questions over the effectiveness of sanctions, with one MP saying there was “not much point” in them unless assets were seized if necessary.

Alisher Usmanov was described as “core part of Putin’s inner circle” by UK officials, who claimed he would face a “full asset freeze”.