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The British Foreign Minister David Lammy has sworn to take “measures” that could include the introduction of a legal fall to release 2.3 billion GBP from the sale of the Chelsea Football Club by the Russian billionaire, Roman Abramovich.
The means that the British government frozen and diverted to Ukraine have been in the bank account of a committed trust for two years, while talks are discussions about how exactly the money should be used.
“I am frustrated that it has not happened is the truth – and that money has to be distributed, it has to be used,” Lammy told the Financial Times in Tokyo. He said he shifted to an “action -oriented approach” to break the logjam.
He emphasized that his “first instinct is not a legal dispute” because this route “takes time”, although people who are familiar with his thinking said it was one of the options on the table to go to court to solve the problem. The agreement of a contract with the foundation, which is to be determined for the treatment of cash, remains different.
While he recognized that the topic of “legal complexity” gives it, he swore: “I can be determined to see that the money got out of the door and everything I can do to bring it.”
The position of the British government was that the money in Ukraine had to be spent, while the Mooted Foundation, in which the former UK managing director of Unicef
In a message on the Chelsea website in March 2022-Im, in which it sanctioned by Great Britain, Abramovich that the foundation would be “in favor of all victims of the war in Ukraine”, including the provision of “critical means for the urgent and immediate needs of the victims and the support of the long-term work of recovery”.
Lammy’s intervention occurs when Kyiv increases from the pressure after the United States had stopped all military aid. He quoted the “urgency of the moment” and the need to improve the efforts to support Ukraine, and said: “I look at this problem carefully.”
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The foreign office said: “This government is working hard to ensure the proceeds from the sale of Chelsea FC as soon as possible humanitarian causes in Ukraine. The proceeds are currently frozen in a British bank account, while a new independent foundation is being set up to manage and distribute the money.
“The British officials continue to conduct discussions with the representatives, experts and international partners of Mr. Abramovich and we will double our efforts to achieve a resolution.”
A representative of Abramovich did not immediately answer the request for comments.
