Gorbachev calls for Russian millionaires to repay money

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Former Soviet President says "up to $1trillion involved"

Sunday Times
Jasper Gerard



MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, the former Soviet leader, has called for wealthy Russian émigrés such as Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea football club, to return their “plundered” wealth to their homeland.
In an interview in today’s Sunday Times News Review, Gorbachev backs a plan by Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, for the so-called “oligarchs” to repatriate their fortunes.

Asked if this includes Abramovich, Gorbachev replied: “I do not want to undermine the motherland of soccer. And I don’t have a problem with a Russian buying shares in Britain, but it is clear we should close the book on the period of plundering.”

He added: “Some think $1 trillion has been hidden by Russian businessmen. If they don’t return that, our courts are likely to decide they acquired it illegally. Then they couldn’t use that money anywhere.”

Gorbachev, who is marking 20 years since he came to power and introduced the liberalising policies of perestroika and glasnost to the Soviet Union, claims Russia has more dollar millionaires than any country except America and that much of this money has flowed abroad, with a large share going to Britain.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1641465,00.html

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1. CIA ops monitored YUKOS, Khodorkovsky moneylaundering:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1515197

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2. Now That's Leadership!

When in this country of ours, we see leaders ask those on the top of the economic pyramid to sacrifice, and they do, then we shall see prosperity.