The head of the Russian Council Committee on Economic Policy, Andrei Kutepov, sent a letter to the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Grigorenko with a proposal to freeze the assets of large businessmen and heads of state corporations who left Russia after the start of the war in Ukraine. Russian media write about this with reference to the letter.
According to the politician, such a measure is necessary “against the backdrop of the unfriendly countries taken by identifying assets of Russian billionaires in the territories of these states and arrests of such assets.” He also proposed to withdraw the dividends of businessmen who left the country from Russian assets and send them to a “special account for the purpose of financing their own.”
After the outbreak of war in Ukraine, the former head of the Rusnano state corporation Anatoly Chubais left Russia. The co-owners of Alfa-Bank Mikhail Friedman and Peter Aven decided to stay in London. The founder of Yandex Arkady Volozh had lived in Israel for several years.
Russian citizenship was abandoned by such large businessmen as the investor Yuri Milner, who lives in the United States, the former owner of the Troika-Dialogue Ruben Vardanyan, the founder of Tinkoff Bank Oleg Tinkov, the founder of the Freedom Finance investment fund Timur Turlov and Revolut co-founder Nikolai Peninonsky.