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Roman Abramovich<\/strong><\/p>\n A BBC investigation has uncovered new evidence about the corrupt deals that made Roman Abramovich\u2019s fortune.<\/p>\n The Chelsea owner made billions after buying an oil company from the Russian government in a rigged auction in 1995.<\/p>\n Mr. Abramovich paid around $250m (\u00a3190m) for Sibneft, before selling it back to the Russian government for $13bn in 2005.<\/p>\n His lawyers say there is no basis for alleging he has amassed very substantial wealth through criminality.<\/p>\n The Russian billionaire was sanctioned by the UK government last week because of his links to Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n Mr. Abramovich\u2019s assets have been frozen and he has been disqualified as a director of Chelsea Football Club.<\/p>\n The Russian billionaire has already admitted in a UK court that he made corrupt payments to help get the Sibneft deal off the ground.<\/p>\n He was being sued in London by his former business associate Boris Berezovsky in 2012.<\/p>\n Mr. Abramovich won the case, but he described in court how the original Sibneft auction was rigged in his favour and how he gave Mr. Berezovsky $10m to pay off a Kremlin official.<\/p>\n BBC Panorama has obtained a document that is thought to have been smuggled out of Russia.<\/p>\n The information was given to the programme by a confidential source, who says it was secretly copied from files held on Mr. Abramovich by Russian law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n The BBC cannot verify that, but checks with other sources in Russia have backed up many of the details in the five-page document.<\/p>\n The document says that the Russian government was cheated out of $2.7bn in the Sibneft deal \u2013 a claim supported by a 1997 Russian parliamentary investigation. The document also says that the Russian authorities wanted to charge Mr. Abramovich with fraud.<\/p>\n It says: \u201cThe Dept. of Economic Crimes investigators came to the conclusion that if Abramovich could be brought to trial he would have faced accusations of fraud\u2026 by an organised criminal group.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Roman Abramovich A BBC investigation has uncovered new evidence about the corrupt deals that made Roman Abramovich\u2019s fortune. The Chelsea owner made billions after buying an oil company from the Russian government in a rigged auction in 1995. Mr. Abramovich paid around $250m (\u00a3190m) for Sibneft, before selling it back to the Russian government for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1006394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5490,6202,113,6235],"class_list":["post-1023371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-abramovich","tag-corrupt","tag-deals","tag-pop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}