The government is doing "quite the opposite" of punishing Chelsea, culture secretary Nadine Dorries has said in a letter to MPs that clarifies what the club can and cannot do under the terms of a special licence granted following the decision to sanction owner Roman Abramovich.
A little after 9am this morning the 55-year-old billionaire was named by the government as a “pro-Kremlin oligarch” who has had links to Russia president Vladmir Putin for “decades”.
He has had all his assets in the UK frozen as part of the response to the invasion of Ukraine, including the club.
