UK prime minister reveals why Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich isn’t facing any sanction

There have been calls for Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich to be sanctioned by the UK following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has revealed why the Chelsea owner isn’t facing any sanctions from the UK.

Asked why Abramovich still has not been sanctioned, Johnson told Italian newspaper La Repubblica and others: “None of us want to live in a country where the state can take your house off you without a very high burden of proof and due process.

“There’s no point saying, yeah, we’re going to go after him, and then you come up against the brick wall of lawyers. So we have to get it right.

“We’re also trying not to just make this about one individual. The top line of what our package on Monday will do is that the measures that you have against individual oligarchs in Europe will essentially allow us to catch them too.

“Plus the extra things that we are doing that Europe hasn’t caught up with or is not prepared to do, like Swift.”