Well, well, well. It seems that the Home Office is having a crackdown on Russian oligarchs, and Abramovic, Chelsea's "mad dog" owner, isn't being permitted back into the country, as his old VISA has expired. He is applying for a new VISA, but he's having to prove that he acquired his money legally. According to the Telegraph: "...the Home Office is demanding to know how Abramovich - who legend has it began his entrepreneurial career selling rubber ducks from his Moscow apartment - became a billionaire." I heard one suggestion that CFC could be seized under the Proceeds of Crime Act. I'd like to hear what the Chelsea boys have to say about this sorry state of affairs. Well?
No ****er knows a thing about it so it'll be boring unless we throw some other random ****e at Chelsea fans. Did they really deserve that FA Cup after defending for 90 mins?
If this thread pans out that way, so be it, Luvvy. Anyone manage to get their hands on an Abramovic rubber duck?
There’s been a huge drop in the number of visa applications since the more stringent source of wealth rules were introduced. Understandable as what rich person wants their finances to be under the microscope. RA came to the U.K. to become “legitimate”. I suspect this will really piss him off.
Fook off! He's not maddog, there is only one maddog and he's one of the best lower league managers around.
It does look as if under the new, much tougher visa rules that he may well be asked to give a far fuller account of the source of his wealth. It’s believed also that the NCA are looking closely into the finances of a few Russian oligarchs.
I know I'm probably being thick here, but if there is the slightest doubt over the source of his wealth that he has to account for it, shouldn't the British government being freezing his assets until the information is brought forward?
Every citizen of this country has to go through checks to prove who they are, if you do not adhere to those checks then the financial sector cannot do business with you. Because if the financial sector are found to be wanting in their checks, they would be fined millions of pounds/dollars.
yeah, right. There's no dirty money sloshing around the City of London - everything is properly regulated and accounted for. Is it just Russian oil and gas billionaires under the microscope btw, or do City's owners need to be worried too?
Why? The guy was bent as ****, as all Russian Oil Magnates are. He just wants to hope he has done a good job of cleaning his act up since he has been in the UK. The **** that happened in Russia, they will never uncover the truth of, and this is probably some grand standing from the Home Office because of the recent political tensions with Russia. They are ****ing with him.
Dependent on the entity and the risk involved, every individual in this country is checked. The only difference is the interval at which the checks are done or the level of them. If you don't use a bank account for a while, you may actually find you can't access it until you have proven who you are, this may require you to take documentation into your bank or merely answering a few security questions over the phone. The Chelsea chief would be deemed as a high risk category i would assume, and they would also need to check none of his monies is passing through sanctioned countries.
