Uzbekistan is lobbying the EU to lift sanctions on Alisher Usmanov and his sister as the Uzbek-Russian billionaire struggles to disentangle himself from the fallout of Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
Usmanov was one of 26 Russians sanctioned by the EU in the immediate days following Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February, with the bloc claiming he was one of the Russian president’s “favourite oligarchs”.
His sister Gulbakhor Ismailova was also sanctioned on the grounds that she was the legal owner of some of Usmanov’s assets, such as his $600mn yacht “Dilbar”.
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