The Security Service of Ukraine, together with the detectives of the Security Service of Ukraine, seized more than 160,000 tons of Ukrainian iron ore worth almost 2 billion hryvnias from underground warehouses belonging to the Russian oligarch Alisher

Usmanov

.  

This was reported by the press service of the SBU.

Hidden raw materials were discovered on the territory of several seaports of Ukraine.

"It was established that the found batch of iron ore belongs to the company of a Russian oligarch, who is part of the inner circle of the top military and political leadership of the Kremlin, Alisher Usmanov," the report says.

After February 24 of this year, sanctions were imposed on him by the National Security Council of Ukraine, the United States, and the European Union.

"Representatives of the aggressor country tried to illegally transport the hidden raw materials by sea vessels to the territory of Russia. After that, they planned to transfer the minerals to the needs of the metallurgical industry and the military-industrial complex of the Russian Federation to meet the needs of Russian occupation groups," the SBU found out.

Seized property has been seized and the issue of its transfer to the National Agency for Identification, Search and Management of Assets Obtained from Corruption and Other Crimes (ARMA) is being resolved.

Sanctions and confiscation of property of the Russian billionaire Usmanov

In April, Germany

confiscated the world's largest superyacht Dilbar of

Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, worth more than $600 million.

According to Forbes magazine, the Russian is the third oligarch in the Russian Federation with a fortune of almost 19 billion dollars

Der Spiegel also wrote that the police found four Fabergé eggs

at billionaire Usmanov's villa on Lake Tegernsee in Bavaria, the ownership of which the oligarch denies in every way

.

Hungary, which is loyal to the Kremlin regime and dictator Vladimir Putin,

Hungary insists on the exclusion of three Russian oligarchs

from the sanctions list, including Alisher Usmanov.

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