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Abramovich loans fund owner of Dutch football club, leaked documents suggest':-
Files indicate oligarch enabled Valery Oyf to take over Vitesse Arnhem, raising fresh questions about his influence on footballwww.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/may/10/roman-abramovich-loans-fund-dutch-football-club-vitesse-arnhem-valery-oyf'The owner of a leading Dutch football club has funded it with loans from Roman Abramovich, leaked documents suggest, fuelling questions about the continued influence the Russian oligarch, under sanctions from the EU and UK, still has on football.
Details of the arrangement involving Valery Oyf, who took over ownership of Vitesse Arnhem in 2018, have been uncovered by the Guardian and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ).
The papers raise questions about whether Abramovich, the former owner of Chelsea FC, is still involved with a European club despite being subject to sanctions in the wake of Russia’s attack on Ukraine.
They have emerged three weeks after the Dutch football association (KNVB) deducted Vitesse 18 points for breaching its licensing regulations, officially confirming their relegation from the Eredivisie, the Netherlands’ top flight.
The KNVB started investigating Vitesse after reporting by the Guardian and TBIJ uncovered apparent financial ties between the club and Abramovich involving the club’s two previous owners. The KNVB said the club had been given a record sanction because of repeated breaches of licensing rules and withholding information.
It added that there were “indications” that Abramovich, the former owner of Chelsea had controlled, or still controlled, the club and that there are risks of violation of sanctions and money laundering.'
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Geopolitics comes to Vitesse: how ‘Chelsea B’ were swallowed by Abramovich associates':-
Fans of the Eredivisie club hoped takeovers would transform their fortunes, but instead they face an existential threat to their futurewww.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/may/10/geopolitics-vitesse-arnhem-chelsea-b-roman-abramovich-associates^ from The Grauniad's '
Oligarch files' -
www.theguardian.com/world/series/oligarch-files