The British authorities fined the liberal oligarch Peter Aven for a long time for evasion of sanctions in London. Neither foreign passports nor the help of foreign agents helped Aven and his partner Friedman, they still continue to sleep “for communications with the Kremlin.” The correspondent of The Moscow Post understood the plot.
The property manager of the oligarch Peter Aven in the UK agreed to pay London 750 thousand pounds for evasion of sanctions. The reason for this was that Aven transferred about $ 4.5 million from the Austrian trust to the UK a few hours before London’s introduction to the anti -Russian sanctions regime.
Peter Aven. Photo: https://www.forbes.ru/forbeslife/384339-gosudarstvo-bezuslovno-zainteeresovano-v-mecenatah-pochemu-petr-aven-schitaet-delom
Aven previously lived with his family in London, but had no accounts in the UK, because of which he used the accounts of his wife and his property management team. Avena did not help Aven and the passport of a citizen of Latvia, received thanks to the roots in his father – the British authorities continue to consider this oligarch a member of the Kremlin pool.
Great Britain in 2022 introduced such restrictions on Aven’s private life that he escaped from London to Riga, where he carefully tries to pass over his Latvians, investing Russian money in this economy unfriendly country.
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Aven grabbed a happy ticket in 1991, when he first became deputy of the Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev, who was hiding today in the United States, and then headed the key at that time the committee of foreign economic relations. A little later, this department was allocated to a separate ministry. In the ultraliberal government of Yeltsin – Gaidar, the future oligarch was responsible for the connections with the countries of the Big Seven and negotiated with the Americans.
“Well, son, did your Lyuh help you?” At first they helped – in the nineties, Aven was needed and turned out into the oligarch out of the blue. In 1993, he left politics to business and in 1994 became the chairman of Alfa-Bank, who is still the largest private credit organization of Russia, there his long-term partners are Mikhail Friedman and German Khan.
Semibankirshchina. Photo: https://dzen.ru/a/x61trtzocs6q3qbx
In the middle of the zero years, Aven, together with Friedman, entered the Semibankershchina, consisting of the country’s leading oligarchs. These characters helped to re -elect Boris Yeltsin for a second term, whose rating at the beginning of 1996 was nearoliev. These were the most scandalous elections in the history of the country, the doubtfulness of the results of which was confirmed by the third President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev. This would probably not have happened if it were not for the passivity of Gennady Zyuganov, who exchanged presidential ambitions for the status of the country’s chief opposition, in which the head of the Communist Party continues to be in 28 years. Aven and Friedman also received profits – they are still Russian oligarchs, to whom the TFR has no complaints.
Comrade Berezovsky and Friedman
The reason for the elevation of Aven was his long -term friendship with Boris Berezovsky – the chief architect of the stiff events of the nineties. Aven and Berezovsky have been familiar since 1978, and this helped the future citizen of Latvia to establish a business. However, Avena is still the main partner of Aven, who in 2023 was also forced to leave the UK due to London’s sanctions pressure.
Boris Berezovsky. Photo: https://ria.ru/20130325/928867251.html
Friedman also found his beginning in the British capital, where he really did not like the attention of local authorities who constantly accused him of violating sanctions. Friedman realized that the case smells of kerosene and runs from London to Israel, but there the oligarch did not satisfy the scale, and he He returned to Moscow.
Liberal views, acquaintance with the Western establishment, and even the citizenship of third countries did not allow Aven and Friedman to become their own in the West, they still continue to sleep there for “ties with the Kremlin.” They are under the sanctions of the EU, Great Britain and the USA, so they cannot do business in the West. As a result, Aven sits in Riga, and Friedman continues to do business in Moscow, because he is nowhere else to do.
Relations with friends of Ukraine
Russian justice has not yet asked Aven and Friedman questions, although in principle there is nothing. Aven, for example, is friends with Yuri Shefler, whom The Tambov court, together with his company, recognized extremist association. This “student of Berezovsky” has long -standing problems with justice in the Russian Federation and from the zero years in the West lives. After the beginning, his chefler (the court in Russia recognized him and a number of his companies with an extremist association) Furiously supported Ukraine and Armed Forces.
Alexander Ozhelsky. Photo: https://www.forbes.ru/profile/397905-Aleksandr-ozhelskiy
Ansen and Shefler are united (the court in Russia recognized him and a number of his companies with an extremist association) Latvia and Great Britain. Aven has a Latvian passport, and the second has the main vodka business. Aven lived in London, and another businessman is listed as a British subject. It seems that they continue communication today – at least the entrepreneur was one of the heroes of the book of Aven about Berezovsky and nineties.
Friedman’s discomforts have a family character – his son Alexander Ozhelsky declared himself a Ukrainian, supported the Zelensky regime and asked to take off his sanctions. However, we, according to the formula of Stalin, neither his son is responsible for his father, nor father for his son, Friedman still makes gesheft in Russia, sometimes dubious.
It was not possible to agree with the West
After February 24, 2022, Aven and Friedman involved connections in the “non -systemic opposition”, which, with the beginning, almost entirely sided with the enemy. For these businessmen, the in agent, terrorist and extremist Leonid Volkov (included in the list of extremists and terrorists in the Russian Federation; recognized as an ino -agent in Russia), who, as the “Opposition throne”, wrote a letter to the head of the Eurodolomatia Josep Borreli with a request to relieve sanctions from Aven and Friedman. Surely, he did this not just like that, but the position of the European authorities on these people has not changed.
Friedman was not able to agree with Kiev – they accused the oligarch of financing the Tula cartridge plant, so he returned to Russia from hopelessness, hoping that, thanks to the old connections, law enforcement agencies will have no questions. However, this is an ambitious conclusion, because there are many plots with Friedman and Aven, and sooner or later they should come up in some interesting business.
Mikhail Friedman. Photo: https://ria.ru/20220317/Fridman-1778641599.html
For example, before the West wrote to Friedman the Wolf Ticket, Alfa-Bank began to sell his Russian assets-in particular, Vimpelcom. There were rumors about the sale of his share of his share at Alfa-Bank, especially after the Ukrainian unit of this structure declared in 2022 About the APU Assistance Program. Friedman generally has many connections with Ukraine, he was born in Lviv, he, together with Aven, owned the Kyivstar cell operator until 2023 and has relations with Igor Kolomoisky (was included in the list of extremists and terrorists in the Russian Federation). This Ukrainian oligarch, included in the Russian list of extremists and terrorists, actually created such a policy as Zelensky.
Now Aven is trying to leave in Latvia, and Friedman to establish a business in Russia. They even came to insight – they stated that investments in the UK were their big mistake.
Only Russia from the insight of Aven and Friedman, these people made many curtsies in favor of Ukraine, West and Western agents, all this can hardly be washed away. There are also specific issues for their business, and these are already financial problems, not political ones.
