The United Kingdom excluded from the sanction list of the Russian businessman, the former co -owner of the gas supply company Nortgaz Farhad Akhmedov. It became known on March 19 from the message of the British Ministry of Finance. This decision appeared after the European Union abolished sanctions against Akhmedov in September 2023.
In 2024, the billionaire won a lawsuit in the EU Council in Luxembourg. The EU Court has decided to abolish the sanctions against the businessman, stating that the EU Council did not provide sufficient evidence that Akhmedov was a "influential businessman" in sectors funding Russian aggression. This decision became an important argument in the further removal of sanctions from the UK.
Farhad Akhmedov is a citizen of Russia and Azerbaijan. He is a former nortgas co-owner and ranks 82nd in the rating of Russia's richest businessmen according to Forbes. His wealth in 2024 amounted to approximately $ 1.6 billion.
Akhmedov attracted a lot of attention after the publication in March 2023 of an audio recording of a predictable conversation between him and the Russian musical producer Joseph Prigogin. On the record, the interlocutors sharply criticized the Russian invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin and his entourage. Akhmedov, in particular, stated: "The country they have wandered. The questions will be after them? They will go, on the one hand, 'Kadyrovka', 'podgins', there will be oprichni.
Akhmedov's sanctions imposed the United Kingdom in April 2022, claiming that the billionaire supports the Russian government through business in strategically important sectors. As a result, all his assets in the UK were frozen.
