Kremlin Slams ‘Alarming’ British Threat to Seize Oligarchs’ Property – The Moscow Times

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  1. Bill Browder and exiled Russians have all pretty much said this universally. If you want to make the Russians stop then seize their money.

    There’s a reason why the Russian government tries really, really hard to stop Magnitsky laws from coming into effect.

  2. Remember when Russia said the UK was a “tiny island no one paid attention to”. They’re paying attention now aren’t they.

  3. whe they called site – themoscowtimes?

    Why not – themoscowpravda or themoscowizvetia?

    themoscowtimes maybe it is for guys who have moscow passport but live in London

  4. The fact that UK didn’t do this after Salisbury stuns me.. and was the ultimate FU to the people that got their life ruined.

  5. The amount of Russian oligarchs in the Uk is pretty insane. I had a friend who went to boarding school in UK and she said her class was full of Russian international students, one of whose family apparently knows Putin

  6. Has the Editor of this Headline *slammed* their Head on the desk repeatedly?

    You are not some british boulevard rag, get your дерьмо together!

  7. We should freeze their accounts now and start action under our existing Proceeds of Crime legislation. If we wait until we’ve passed brand new legislation, any liquid assets will surely get moved.

  8. If uk does that,they will lose satus of money laundering capital (London) and that will be the end of London being major financial centre. So with that I know they will never do that.

  9. And in other related news, the British prime minister is currently under imminent threat of being deposed by a manufactured scandal. And willing to go along with pretty much any agenda he’s told to implement. As would any likely replacement.

    Purely coincidence, no doubt.

  10. Do it! Do it now! Freeze the oligarchs assets! Putin hides his wealth away through trusts run by the oligarchs. It will him personally.

    After we are done with Putin let’s follow up on the Panama papers.

  11. It’s hilarious they’re concerned about the UK doing something that happens in Russia all the time, which is precisely the reason the Oligarchs don’t keep their wealth there.

  12. To be honest, even if we created such a law, it’s very doubtful that the Conservative government would utilise it in any meaningful manner…

  13. „Oh no! They are taking from our richest, most corrupted and most powerfull! Someone stir up the pawns!“

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