Secret $40m deal links Vladimir Putin to Roman Abramovich - BBC Newsnight
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- Опубликовано: 9 май 2024
- Leaked documents reveal a secret $40m deal between former Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich and two men dubbed Vladimir Putin’s “wallets”, a BBC investigation has found.
The billionaire Russian oligarch was sanctioned by the UK and EU council in 2022 for his proximity to the Russian leader and for allegedly profiting from the Kremlin regime.
Mr Abramovich has previously denied any financial relationship with Vladimir Putin, and he has not responded to requests for comment from the BBC.
Reporter: Ben Chu
Production: Sean Clare, James Melley, James Oliver, Harriet Agerholm, Will Dahlgreen, Becky Dale
Camera: Jonathan Callery
Editor: Luke Winsbury
Graphics: Rodrigo Jorge
Production co-ordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross
This investigation was carried out by BBC Newsnight, BBC Verify, and BBC Panorama, partnered with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism to uncover revelations as part of the Cyprus Confidential - a global investigation led by reporters at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and Paper Trail Media.
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the British government welcomed him with open arms when he bought Chelsea knowing fully that he was Putin's buddy. So why wait 20 years to vilify him?
Exactly..
Because the Government didn’t have a problem with Putin 20 years ago, at that time it wasn’t unreasonable to view Putin as preferable to what had immediately preceded him.
Take away his precious team🤣🤣 man picked the wrong side
"Putin's buddy" was arrested. He had to agree to hand 50% of his oil & gas businesses back to Russia & pay a fine equivalent to US$2Bn & leave Russia. If he returns, he'll be arrested. Abramovich is his friend. Imagine what he does to enemies who steal from Russia.
I also didnt have a problem with your wife when I met her.... doesnt mean today we still get along.....
$40 million for Roman and Putin is play money, you should at least make it $400 mil plus. Roman and Putin probably make $40 million a month in interest rates payments.
🙄😒🤥
One of romans yachts cost more then 40 million a year to run
when you have 9.200 mio ... 40 mio is a joke - no issue here
Equally corrupt.
true i mean its not only them these elites make billions n hide them its not only in russia but every elite steals n hide
BORIS J needs to get investigated.
$40 million is equivalent to a penny to him it cost him that much on fuel for his yacht
$40 million is half a player in his former Chelsea.
🤣 That’s the valuation you give when Chelsea come calling. Divide that by 4 and you get the true value of the player.
Former Chelsea he said
Why question an Oligarch s connection with the government. That is how it works in Russia
Exactly it's like the sky is blue lnaooo
That's how it works in America too
And in the west too! Ponzi BBC
Soviet Union, you mean. That’s the old government
@@grunggod9127only that in the west we do have free speech to criticise scrutinise and accountability.
smth not heard of in prison like Russia!
so don't compare, unless you want to sell putin' s ridiculous lies and spread prison
BBC needs to do something against these bots
Honestly. The crypto and amazon bots are the worst imo.
Report spam.
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@antlerman... It's RUclips and ultimately Google who needs to deal with the bots/troll -farms. If truth is ultimate voice of the democratic majority these bots and troll-farms acts as main drivers as influencers to dial up the so called voice-of-the-majority and influencing public opinions via manipulated truths.
Google needs to!! But they won't, they don't care one whit!
Amazing how it take authorities years to realise these practices go on when rest of world knows from day one
They partook
Yeah but have to prove it, even for obviously scumbags.
Ha ha it's funny how many of these same people in power do things like this ... Only reason this is a problem is because Putin pissed some people off. Who holds Bush accountable for Iraq? Don't fall in love with stupid politics.
true that
Weak politicians are complicit, as are businesses that benefit from the crumbs that fall from the commies table
Maybe you should also investigate all billionaires? Including the ones linked to the British government.
Hypocrisy at the highest level here from the UK government and the British media.
Infosys springs to mind for starters.
what? you are annoyed by the truth?? and paid by that Russian embassy which spurrs out only hilarous lies??
why passing to other stories when we investigate this one?? who told you bbc will not pursue other dossiers if they find illegal issues?? why so reactive to the Russian assassins? are you by chance supporting them??
hypocrocy ah...
@@cristona.d5265 is it your comment intelligent by any chance? do you have more to say? or English is not exactly your right language ?
Maybe you think before you make a comment like this… Putin has the blood of +500,000 on his hands with this invasion
90% of billionaires are oligarch they all benefited from politicians either by protectionism, corruption or lobbying or even government contracts e.g microsoft, amazon, starlink all get government contracs
I suspect that Putin made Abramovich an offer he couldn’t refuse.
Fall out a window or move my money. 😂
Funny how journalism is picking Roman and Vladimir as ruthless men but no one talks of how ruthless is AMERICA and its rich people and politicians
As a Canadian I can affirm that the US has not tried to annex us lately. Or ever.
The BBC is a part of the British establishment, they wouldn’t want to piss the Americans off by investigating them. They could also investigate the scum politicians and mega rich here but choose not to.
Okay Troll
@@derharte4354 Why is he a troll?
The UK was fine with this until the geopolitical scene changed. This is all two faced posturing.
You could of went a lot deeper than you did , hope there a part two to this investigation
And then what? Pointless investigation
Great investigative journalism. Keep following the money. Thank you for your work.
BBC brainwashed you. We live in a world where your eyes deceive you and your truth can be concealed or manipulated
Fake news ya clowns
Creep. Who cares. With everything else happening.
Britain is the invincible number one in the universe! Tell you! Britain is the world hegemon! The world cannot exist without Britain! All the world's problems! It takes the UK to solve it! This planet belongs to Britain! 🇬🇧
@@paul7TMcivil society does.perhaps you don't understand its power.but it is the foundation of healthy democracy. the one putin the psychopath and kleptocrat wants most to destroy.
perhaps that s why you write here such skepticism.
so be aware we do keep up our fight.we are not duped by assassins
People defending Abramovich because he was a football club owner is really depressing.
And pathetic.
People believing the BBC, other major "news" networks, or social media...that's depressing
stay mad, CHELSEA CHELSEA CHELSEAAAAAAAA
Don’t believe everything bbc say
Hmm.. I wonder who in life you are defending? People should stop spitting in the wind
Great if BBC could review Ronan Farrow's podcast "catch n' kill". The name Valdugen rings a bell.
*Completely unsurprising news.*
Stop amazon bots ❤
Makes one think Ian Fleming's SPECTRE is not so far-fetched after all...
Im not doubting Roman may have dodgy aspects to his business dealings. The problem i have with authorities continuing to try and establish a current connection between Roman and Putins inner circle is that at the peace talks. He was poisoned and nearly died. Also after having his assets frozen, he went to Israel not Russia to rebuild himself. Putin definitely saw him as a ally at one point but i dont believe from what has been reported especially since this war and supposed peace talks, Putin counts on Ambramovich as a friend or ally of Russia.
I doubt 40 million is much to him
Pocket Change
There's a link and he's denied it...
The point is that if there found 17 millions, there are probably hundreds more. It’s extremely difficult to trace money that is laundered internationally by a mafia state as powerful as Russia.
nenehno
40mil seems a little low given the industry. Would expect a billion+ deal.
Is it Greek Cyprus, or Turkish?
These scenes of projecting an interview onto a dirty board and reporter driving around is more distracting than useful for putting your point across.
there are probably lots more deals to be yet uncovered
Sanction first, investigate later.
They asked Elon Musk about being the richest person in the World ...his answer . Im nowhere near Putin ..
4;00 transferred for a price that "appears to be below fair market value"..uh, understatement of the Year??
Putin's ' Wallet ' ...
😂😂😂👌
Belarus also has companies in Cyprus that have gaming software installed all over the world.
"All the funding we need comes from Russia."
Eric (Beavis) Trump
"I don't need to get paid for the presidency. We get our money from the Russians"
D.J. Trump - former president of the USA
Jokin Joey Biden gave Iran another 10 billion. So there's that. 😅
😂
I love late night Hot dogs and Cheese Pizza - Obama
This is ridiculous.
Of course! No one ever became minted without the Tsar's blessing.
No one becomes the Tsar without the Oligarch’s blessing
@@blackelton7127 Yes, I agree, it is a symbiotic relationship. Any oligarch who denies it is lying. They are simply looking after Tsar's money for him.
@@davidjma7226 yes and the worst part is Zelensky is a puppet for Ukrainian oligarchs who are allied with the Russian ones. Almost as if they all benefit from the war 🤷
Where is the evidence?
I may be just an American but have always loved the BBC so take it as it is
The BBC are corrupt and i would not trust them as far as i could throw them. then theres all the pedo"s like Saville who were protected.
You never do journalism like this for Netenyahu
Here the English Media go again, always speculating things
Bit like the Post office in the UK , ECT,ECT,ECT
Forcing it. 😂😂
You can always rely on The BBC to deliver straight forward propaganda.
They used it as an excuse to rob these guys’ assets.
absolutely true, and if they can do that they will start to rob all their citizens so more illegals can stay in 4 star hotels
Absolute bonkers, how does this hold logical sense. A very dreadful attempt to just link everything up. Not saying Roman is innocent or guilty but if you would be putting out such headlines give us something logically significant.
BBC need to investigate their own British government before anyone else's......something tells me they won't though 🙈😂
Very interesting.
The British public should employ the investagative jouralists that worked this case in the hopes they could find all the missing public funds our present government has syphoned off , in addition the over priced cronyism deals that took place during the pandemic.
It would make very interesting viewing for sure!
Nothing to see here is what they’re thinking when it comes to the money syphoned out of the public purse or the billions syphoned through our economy on a monthly basis.
Totally agree Britain welcomed the Russian dirty money many years ago thanks to people like Tony Blair and David Cameron. They were allowed to launder their £Millions buying up football clubs, super yacht's, exquisite properties in London etc etc with no questions asked! Our British government cannot distance itself from the enabling role it played in the dirty money scandal, that rightly so should have gone to the poor citizens of Russia who live in abstract poverty.
"A quick rewrite of history, sir? No problem - coming right up." BBC
Oh!!! I see so this is to make a government feel good about setting a precedence... there is no going back now...
Bbc with it's moral high ground
hot air investigation
The govt. prosecuted him only when it suited them. He basically operated untouched for almost 2 decades
`dont think this surprises anyone.
I never understood the meaning of fake news or smear campaign until watching the BBC and how they tell the news. If they wanna paint you bad they will by all means
So does it mean that abramovich is not guilty and business in ruzzia is completely fine?
Your comment could stand a chance if you were to write it under a different video, but now it just looks like some rubbish from a delusional degenerate
U dummy
Imagine they did this to royal family
😂 there's a surprise! 🤦🏽♂️
Suspicion is not Evidence
At least find the big deals, basically free oil and gas company (at less than tenth of actual value).
VOF coming soon. We gon be doing guest spots on each other vids bruh
So what??? Now what??? Nuthin will be done.
$40mil...really? For a confirmed multibillionaire? This sounds shallow at best.
It can't be very secret if it has now been on the television and the internet.
😂😂😂
40 mil is absolutely nothing when you’re worth billions
if only you could do similar effort on Hunter Biden and Burisma
I was not concealed, it was known, but EU and UK decided not to give an f about it...
Never underestimate the BBC’s ability to bait and switch.
The corrupt and the evil seem to be rewarded with money. An evil force is at work
Americans discover oligarchy. The irony
Where’s the news on digital ids passing in Europe???? Now digital currency passing to be use with them!!!
Fruitful for Ielts student 🎉
So what?
Not to mention the Russian in the house of lords.......but we wont mention that 😂😂😂
Why these sanctions doesn't applied to Israel?
Nobody is more corrupt than the people in wahington. Period.
Bravo!
Chelsea haven’t been the same since
Is this it? What a waste of public money, globe trotting on public funds to tell us absolutely nothing.
My mom was right. I gotta start playing violin.
Follow the money
Is anyone surprised?
Guy belongs in PRISON!
It's funny how the British government woke up suddenly after the Ukraine War to look humanitarian. Smh
What a relief for these guys and the government that Newsnight is being defunded.
What about puppets and puppet bussinesses.that one place to hide.
Chelsea Fan Here💙💙💙 We Love You Roman🔵🔵🔵
Another hit piece on Roman Abramovich to justify the stealing of Abramovich money and assets by the UK government and not by a judge. Plus the UK government didn't even have this information at that time.
Is he still alive? Just like the rest, The Hague must be his final destination.
So secret bbc knows about it
Good for you guys
You don't become a russian oligarch without being close to Putin. Tell us somthing we dont already know.
We sanctioned ourselves mate!
well a rich life isn't easy 😶
They have started missing him already...lol
Now do Sunaks family
Its quite funny, you expected him to be close to who?😂 Warren buffet you expect him to be close to who? 😂 Richard Branson you expect him to be close to who? 😂
These guys acting like they found something new
BBC now don’t have any news , if a Russia politician make his money how is that bbc concern and what about UK politicians that’s makes a lot of money from politics
They just wanna keep the 2£ billion
my chels owner 😭
Come back Roman and Jose
Now perhaps you can find links between British high society and the 15 thousand russians granted residence in the uk? The hypocrisy stinks . Indeed tv shows have shown us the lives of the super rich in london . Britain was actually proud.
FInancial Services over in Cyprus, the island has huge problems financially
I love how the media always says “the war was unprovoked” 😂😂😂
I love how bots and Rusky fanboys keep saying it wasn't unprovoked...
😂😂😂
@@RUclipsGlobalAdminstratorcalling out American hypocrisy and corruption doesn’t make people russian fan boys. People like you preach about anti gov stuff but you happily buy into everything they tell you 😂
@@-uju-5958you are just intelligent and idiots will call you a bot its not a suprise to me
WHEN ARE YOU GONNA DO THE SAME TO NETANYAHU? WE ARE WAITING!!!