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Russian target Abramovich hit by ￡400m tax bill
Nick Paton Walsh in Moscow
Friday November 19, 2004
The Guardian
Chelsea football club's owner, Roman Abramovich, has been hit with a ￡400m tax
bill relating to his Russian oil company Sibneft, according to local reports,
raising fears that he could be the next oligarch targeted by President
Vladimir Putin in the country's crackdown against big business.
Mr Abramovich, said to be the second richest man in Russia with a fortune of
￡7.5bn, paid ￡140m for Chelsea last year and embarked on a ￡200m spending
spree on top class international footballers.
But his strategy of minimising his presence in Russia by investing overseas may
only have delayed a government investigation into his finances, analysts said,
following President Putin's attack on other oligarchs, most notably Mikhail
Khodorkovsky and his oil business Yukos.
Russian tax police now say Sibneft owes 21bn roubles (￡396m) in tax from 2000,
according to the Interfax news agency, which also quoted a parliamentary source
saying the same figure was being sought. Officials and MPs declined to confirm
either report. John Mann, a spokesman for Sibneft, refused repeated requests
for comment.
The report will raise fears that Sibneft may be subjected to a tax crackdown
similar to that plaguing Yukos, which, after a series of claims by tax police
for each year since 2000, now owes $18bn (￡9.7bn) in back taxes while its former
chief executive Mr Khodorkovsky is on trial for fraud.
The reports of the tax bill sent Sibneft's shares 8% lower yesterday.
Following his investment in Chelsea, Mr Abramovich has been divesting some of
his interests in Russia. He recently sold off his remaining stake in the
aluminium giant RusAl to another oligarch, Oleg Deripasko. Yet Sibneft, worth
an estimated $16bn, has remained his main source of income. His spokesmen have
persistently denied that he intends to pull out of Russia.
But Liliya Shevtsova, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment in Moscow,
said Mr Abramovich's extravagant lifestyle would leave him open to an attack
from the Russian authorities. "The type of power [the Kremlin has] does not
tolerate anyone walking alone and becoming part of the landscape in Great
Britain," she said. "It was always only a question of when Abramovich and the
other oligarchs would come under intense scrutiny.
"Mr Chelski does things that look not only ridiculous to the Kremlin and
Russians generally, but also provoke deep feelings of dislike." She said she
thought further tax bills would follow and that the Kremlin now thought the
"oligarchy must be dismantled".
The Kremlin's pursuit of the so-called oligarchs - billionaires who amassed
huge fortunes buying up state assetson the cheap in the 1990s - has won Mr
Putin considerable popular approval.
One opinion poll showed only a fifth of Russians disapproved of the arrest of
Mr Khodorkovsky, taken to jail at gunpoint on a Siberian runway in October 2003.
Since the arrest, the firm has lost ￡3.4bn, had two new CEOs, and now faces
the sell-off by Kremlin bailiffs of its main subsidiary, Yuganskneftegaz, to
cover its expanding tax debts.
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