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By Mauricio Alencar £2.5bn is sitting in a UK Barclays bank account, frozen. They are the proceeds from Roman Abramovich’s sale of Chelsea FC, nearly two years to the day. Those funds still remain unused. An open letter signed off by the sanctioned Russian oligarch, who seldom made any public statement during his 19 years in charge of the club, said the funds raised would be earmarked “for the benefit of all victims of the war in Ukraine”. They remain held up as a result of secret disputes between the UK government, the European Union and Abramovich’s representatives on how the money should be…

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