Abramovich Brexited: Chelsea owner granted EU citizenship in Portugal
December 20 – Billionaire oligarch and Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has become an EU citizen, three years after withdrawing his application for a UK visa amid diplomatic tensions between London and Moscow.
Abramovich has been granted Portuguese citizenship to go with his Russian and Israeli ones and based on his Jewish heritage.
Abramovich’s successful application, reportedly granted back in April, used a Portuguese law offering naturalisation to descendants of Sephardic Jews who were expelled from the Iberian peninsula during the Inquisition,
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