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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sam Blewett

PM pressured to seize oligarch assets as it emerges sanctions may take ‘months”

PA Wire

Boris Johnson was under pressure to go faster in targeting Russian oligarchs, after it was conceded it could take “weeks and months” to build legally-sound cases.

Downing Street said on Thursday it would consider possible changes to speed up the process as ministers sought to apply pressure on Russian president Vladimir Putin over his invasion of Ukraine.

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