MADRID, 17 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Russian opponent Alexei Navalni has asked Western countries on Wednesday to issue tougher sanctions against the Russian oligarchs while the war against Ukraine continues, since in his opinion, President Vladimir Putin, and his people continue to “get away with it” .
“Putin’s war with Ukraine has been going on for six months now. From day one, Western leaders firmly stated that Putin’s oligarchs and bribes would face sanctions and that this time they would not get away with it, but they got away with it.” He has protested on Twitter from the Russian prison where he is serving a nine-year sentence for a crime of tax fraud.
Navalni has assured that although there is a broad consensus in international institutions such as the European Commission or the United States Congress to sanction “warmongers”, at the moment of specifying, “everything falls apart”.
“Nothing happens. The leaders make great speeches, but the decisions get stuck somewhere,” he has protested through a long string of messages on the aforementioned social network in which he names several examples of some of the “sponsors” of the family and alleged mistresses of Putin who would have dodged these sanctions, such as the head of Gazprom, Alexei Miller.
Navalni has continued to name some of these Putin-friendly oligarchs, such as Roman Abramovich, former owner of Chelsea FC, who would have escaped sanctions and lamented that only a quarter of the 200 richest Russians in the world who appear on the Forbes list have been punished.
“That doesn’t sound much like a total war against Putin’s oligarchs to me,” said Navalni, for whom it is “clear” that in the West either “they are not doing their job”, or “they are happy to be deceived”, slipping even that they might have been corrupted. “Did I hear there would be a briefcase?” she wondered.
“Sanctions are needed to force the aggressor to stop the war. To put pressure on him. There are complex solutions such as the oil and gas embargo, but then there are other really simple ones, such as personal sanctions,” insisted the prisoner, who has proposed the expulsion for twenty years of the European Union, the United States and the United Kingdom of those who publicly defend the war.
