Roman Abramovich holds high-net-worth residency rights in Jersey.
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, oligarch and former Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich had assets worth $7 billion or £5.3 billion seized in Jersey as the island's Government ruled they were proceeds of crime.
A long-running legal battle followed, mainly in the shadows due to privacy orders, some of which have now been lifted, allowing for more reporting of the case - although it is still active.
In November 2022, Reuters revealed that police in Jersey had admitted to carrying out unlawful searches of premises allegedly linked to the sanctioned Russian billionaire and had agreed to pay damages and apologise.
Journalist Nick Purewal has been following the complex legal case and spoke to ITV Channel about what we know now:
$7 billion has been held in Jersey for the past three-and-a-half years. What's the relevance now?
"All of these cases that have been running since 2022 in Jersey were subject to privacy orders and some of those have been lifted.
"This all started in 2017 when Roman Abramovich took up residency in Jersey. The Jersey Government had been trying to convince him to do that for a very long time and eventually he agreed.
"In the 12 months leading up to him being granted residency, the Government ran through a comprehensive process ratifying the source of his funds which will be crucial now and is quite standard but obviously very complicated.
"He had residency for around five years, then everything changed in so many ways, for so many people, with Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine in Feburary 2022.
"Roman Abramovich was sanctioned by the UK Government in March 2022 which led to the sale of Chelsea. Separate to that, his funds in Jersey were frozen by the Jersey Government, alleging at the time and since that those assets originated from the proceeds of crime.
"That has led to a case that's been running through the courts with hearings on and off for three-and-a-half years. It's the lifting of the privacy orders that allows some of this to be reported and discussed."
Nick Purewal is a former Chelsea Correspondent for the Press Association and has written a book about Abramovich selling the football club. Credit: ITV Channel
What is Abramovich's argument to get this money back?
"The point he would make is that to be granted residency in 2017, he had to pass extremely stringent and detailed tests, industry-standard KYC [Know Your Customer] tests that were run by one of the four big firms.
"The source of the money, the wealth, has never changed so I think the difficulty from his position is something that was fine in 2017, suddenly wasn't fine in the middle of 2022.
"What he wants to do is free up money from the sale of Chelsea FC, £2.35 billion, so that it can be donated to an independent humanitarian foundation that would benefit all victims of the Ukraine war and that was always the agreement in the terms of allowing the Chelsea sale to happen.
"Roman Abramovich has repeatedly been very clear that this isn't money he wants back, he wants this huge amount of money to go to its best use to benefit victims of the war."
What are the chances of this money actually going to that?
"All you can do at this point is take him at his word and he's been working very hard to try to do that, but obviously the money is frozen and for it to be released, the UK Government would have to issue a licence for that to happen.
"You can understand why, at the moment, while Jersey is alleging that the source of these funds is criminal, which he would strongly refute, there's a log jam.
"Also, Roman Abramovich has brought this case of conspiracy against the Jersey Government, which is now in the public domain.
"His lawyers had requested the standard release of all the information and data to do with the case and across more than a year, there was no release.
"Eventually, when the judge said, 'Why not?', the Government admitted in one of these hearings that a large amount of that information had been deleted.
"That's why the judge, in frustration, ordered what there was to be released and allowed this case of conspiracy to progress.
"It's a very strong allegation, clearly one that the Jersey Government has strongly denied, and the case is ongoing.
"As with all these things, none of this is black and white, it's extremely nuanced.
"Some of these obstacles are quite large, so I think there's still a long way to go but I think it's clear that no one is giving up."
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