“Our goal is not to return them. Our goal is to use them better than in this way,” Sullivan iterated, speaking at an event at the Economic Club of Washington.
United States does not plan to return the seized assets of the Russian Oligarchs, Biden administration’s National Security advisor Jake Sullivan asserted on Friday, adding that those assets were frozen as a part of the Western sanctions against Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine. “Our goal is not to return them. Our goal is to use them better than in this way,” Sullivan iterated, speaking at an event at the Economic Club of Washington to reporters. He was responding to whether the US government plans to return to the Russian Oligarchs the detained assets like expensive yachts and their properties.
US national security advisor’s remarks came just a day after a Royal court in the Channel Island of Jersey froze $7bn in assets linked to Russian Oligarch and Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich. Island’s police launched a search operation into the premises “suspected to be connected to the business activities of Roman Abramovich”. European Union had already imposed sanctions on the Oligarch as a part of a new package of measures targeting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s close allies. 55-year-old has also been sanctioned by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government.
