{"id":133425,"date":"2014-07-25T16:28:58","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T16:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=133425"},"modified":"2014-07-25T16:28:58","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T16:28:58","slug":"londons-russian-billionaires-risk-sanctions-david-cameron-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/londons-russian-billionaires-risk-sanctions-david-cameron-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"London\u2019s Russian billionaires are \u201cat risk\u201d of sanctions, David Cameron warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"entry-subtitle\" style=\"font-weight: 500;\"><strong>Brunt of new \u201crestrictive measures\u201d aimed at cutting off Russia&#8217;s banking economy<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"firstPar\" style=\"color: #282828;\">\n<p>David Cameron has warned Russian billionaires who live or own assets in London that they could be \u201cat risk\u201d of sanctions if they have close links to Vladmir Putin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"secondPar\" style=\"color: #282828;\">\n<p>The Prime Minister said he was \u201cvery clear\u201d that if rich Russians living in Britain were shown to be \u201cPutin cronies\u201d they would be in danger of sanctions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"thirdPar\" style=\"color: #282828;\">\n<p>Mr Cameron did not mention anyone living in the capital by name, but Russian billionaires who have chosen London as their home include Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea FC. Alisher Usmanov, a major shareholder in Arsenal FC also owns property in the capital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fourthPar\" style=\"color: #282828;\">\n<p>His comments came as ambassadors in Brussels discussed proposals to make the City of London bear the brunt of new \u201crestrictive measures\u201d aimed at cutting off Russia&#8217;s banking economy from financing and key technologies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fifthPar\" style=\"color: #282828;\">\n<p>Meeting in intense secrecy, the EU delegates agreed a new \u201ccrony criteria\u201d to target Russian oligarchs close to Vladimir Putin\u2019s inner circle who are seen as \u201cbenefiting from\u201d those politicians and generals responsible for a guerrilla war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/politics\/conservative\/10991082\/Londons-Russian-billionaires-are-at-risk-of-sanctions-David-Cameron-warns.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brunt of new \u201crestrictive measures\u201d aimed at cutting off Russia&#8217;s banking economy David Cameron has warned Russian billionaires who live or own assets in London that they could be \u201cat risk\u201d of sanctions if they have close links to Vladmir Putin. The Prime Minister said he was \u201cvery clear\u201d that if rich Russians living in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-133425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}