applied measures against the eu russia
Milan , September 23, 2014 – 07:15
ROME – In “black list” compiled by the United States authorities on the subjects to be sanctioned is in fifth place. Why Romanovich Arkady Rotenberg, 63, is the companion of judo Vladimir Putin, but mostly it is the contractor who was awarded several contracts for the Sochi Winter Olympics last February. And so against it is clicked the “asset freeze” measure provided by the European Union against the “loyalists” of the Russian president after the war started in Ukraine.
In Italy it is the first time it happens. Seals were placed in villas and apartments in Sardinia, other properties in Lazio, company shares, bank accounts, and a luxury hotel in Rome, a few steps from Via Veneto. The operation of the Core currency of the Guardia di Finanza was taken yesterday morning. The specialists led by General Giuseppe Bottillo performed the action – as determined by the procedure laid down in the case of “the measures envisaged to prevent, deter and suppress the financing of terrorism and the activities of countries that threaten international peace and security” – notifying the same Rotenberg also with regard to his company: “Olpon Investment Limited”, which is based in Cyprus and the “Aurora 31″ who owns the hotel “Berg Luxury” in the capital.
The list of properties ‘sealed’ includes an apartment in Cagliari, a villa in Villasimius, a villa in Tarquinia, two villas in Arzachena, the hotel in the center of Rome. In everything they do 30 million euro of assets that the Russian businessman appears to have bought through companies who owns abroad.
It is a terrible blow that certainly will not miss to raise controversy since the end of August, a few days before the presidents of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, and European Council, Herman Van Rompuy disclosing an the decision of new sanctions, Putin himself had said: “If the United States and EU will insist with the sanctions in relation to the crisis in Ukraine, Russia will have to review the presence of American and European companies in strategic sectors “of the economy and in particular energy.
The threat has not stopped the EU seen that on 6 September Barroso has just announced the selection of “extending the list of Russian citizens will face the freezing of assets in Europe and the travel ban, including the new leadership in Donbass, the government of Crimea, oligarchs and other prominent figures. ” And among these prominent figures there Rotenberg, but not only. In April a similar measure was in fact taken against Oleksii Mykolayovych Azarov, son of former Ukrainian prime minister, result proprietor of a company based in Milan who runs a villa with adjoining land always in Sardinia, exactly in the Gulf of Marinella Olbia, other properties in the area, as well as numerous bank accounts, shares, securities and equity investments.
The measures have retrospectively, as is specified in the decree notified by investigators of the Core currency, are effective as of July 30, as required by the Regulation on the freezing of assets and “involves the unwillingness on the part of the owner.” The goal is clear, shown in the same agreement in the Union that adopts the lines set up by the United States before: to prevent any kind of business with the men closest to Putin identified as its main donors, but also lock the ‘ access to the European capital of Russian banks and prohibit the import and export of technologies deemed strategic.
In the list submitted to the Exchange rates, as well as Rotenberg include people who gravitate around him, relatives or simple dummy on which checks are still in progress and which could become the recipients of similar measures in order to avoid that through a “network” hidden people considered closest to President Putin can continue to operate financially out of the borders of Russia.
September 23, 2014 | 07:15
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