The Russian oligarch close to Putin has asked his friends and acquaintances to lend him money to pay his staff, following the sanctions imposed on him in Britain and the US that include freezing his assets. Some of his friends responded in the negative and provided various excuses
Roman Abramovich, the Russian-Israeli oligarch close to Russian President Putin, Desperately asking for loans from his strong friends to continue to strengthen his team, but some of his friends refuse.
According to the Page Six website, Abramovich approached acquaintances in Hollywood and elsewhere, asking for a cash loan after his bank accounts were frozen in the US and UK, following the war in Ukraine.
The oligarch is asking for the money mainly to continue to maintain his crew, which includes the guards on his luxury yachts. The amount required to maintain the team is $ 750,000 per week.
He turned to Hollywood producer and director Brett Ratner and the Rothschild family, but they refused his request, claiming they had no liquid cash or that the consequences were unclear under international law.
Abramovich said he had never spent his staff salary, and now that his assets are frozen he can not pay his men. Now the test and the difficult struggle of his life will he be able to raise the money to continue to fund the people around him ?.