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Roman Abramovich faces third-party proprietary questions about ‘secret bets’ on rival club players, including the former Sporting Lisbon winger who played Chelsea in the Champions League
- Roman Abramovich held the economic rights of the Peruvian winger Andre Carrillo
- Carrillo played against Chelsea in two Champions League qualifiers six years ago
- Abramovich’s participation in third-party ownership through offshore Leiston Holdings will place more scrutiny on his businesses.
- The Premier League banned TPO in 2008, and FIFA followed suit in 2015.
Roman Abramovich faces questions about his involvement in third-party property after a BBC The investigation revealed that the Chelsea owner had secret investments in players that were not owned by his club.
The Russian held the economic rights of the players through a company based in the British Virgin Islands and one of them, Peruvian winger Andre Carrillo, played against Chelsea in two Champions League ties in 2014.
Abramovich’s involvement in the prohibited practice of TPO through an offshore company called Leiston Holdings will put more scrutiny on the businesses of a man who has invested nearly 2 trillion pounds since buying Chelsea in 2003.
Roman Abramovich faces questions about his involvement in third-party property
The Russian held the financial rights of Andre Carrillo, who played against Chelsea in 2014
That includes a £ 230 million spending spree this summer. The Premier League banned third party ownership in 2008 following the loan of Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano by West Ham, but FIFA did not ban it until 2015, a year after Carrillo played for Sporting Lisbon in two defeats of Champions League group against Chelsea.
Leiston had stakes in two other Sporting players: Gael Etock, who played for the club from 2012 to 2013, and Valentin Viola, who was on the team from 2012 to 2016. A spokeswoman for Abramovich said the rules were not broken.
Abramovich’s involvement in Leiston has emerged after the BBC’s Panorama obtained a leak of so-called ‘suspicious activity reports’ from the banks.
In December 2016, a bank filed a suspicious activity report on Abramovich.
His involvement in Leiston came after a leak of so-called ‘suspicious activity reports’ from the banks.
It identified more than $ 1 billion of ‘suspicious payments involving foreign shell companies’, companies that function only to manage the money invested in them.
The RAE said that many of the shell companies were ‘owned by Roman Abramovich. . . one of the most powerful oligarchs in Russia with close ties to Moscow and Vladimir Putin. ‘
Chelsea declined to comment.
