Hungary threatens to cancel the 2000 Russian sanctions if the EU does not release Mikhail Friedman

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Hungary, Oligarch Mikhail Friedman, if the list is not removed from the list, hinders the renewal of the EU’s approximately 2000 sanctions.

The commands of travel restrictions and assets and assets and assets and assets and assets and business pyrons, the commands applied to politicians and businessmen that provide all 27 EU capital to roll in Ukraine will end on Saturday.

Hungary’s ambassador to the EU demanded this FriedBefore London, he was lucky to leave his fortune in Russia a decade ago, it will be released from the list, which allows Budapest all other sanctions, and informed about the discussions.

The EU ambassadors meet the next few days of negotiations in Brussels on Thursday. Staundit allies in Kiev’s Baltic region, especially the United States, is different from any weakening of EU’s restrictions against Moscow.

HungaryThe Russian partner member, managed by the most accurate Prime Minister Viktor Orban, has repeatedly threatened to delay or watering the blocks against Moscow. According to three officials, the efforts to remove Friedman’s Friedman are supported by Luxembourg.

Last year, Friedman London’s investment company has filed a lawsuit against Luxembourg, which is interested in the negligence, is looking for $ 15.8 billion for sanctions.

Fried, who lost his fortune in Russia in the 1990s, Friedman, who lost his fortune in the 1990s, was first protected from the preserved criticism of President Vladimir Putin and returned to Moscow last October.

Friedman refused to comment.

Hungary first includes eight names and includes eight names, including PETT AVEN, including PETT AVEN for a long time. However, Budapest threw some of these requirements, while insisting the exclusion of three officials and Friedman.

Friedman and AVEN, in April 2024, the EU won a lawsuit in the General Court of the EU, which was incorrect to add the EU to the list in 2022. The court said that this did not provide enough evidence of its close relations.

The victory of the oligarchs was the highest profile blow to the EU sanctions against the EU since the occupation.

However, in 2023, they remain in the decision of the second EU sanctions in Russia. Latvia complained about the first decision in the grace of the oligarch, Friedman and AVEN have difficulty in the second decision.

Last year, Friedman and Aven sold their shares in alpha-bankRussia’s largest private loan and his sister insurance company, which has not been under sanctions for a long time, Andrey Kosogova.

The oligarchs, who sell companies, were no longer the “leading businessmen” did not respond to the remaining criteria for the EU sanctions against them. . . The Kremlin is in the economic sector that provides an important source of income.

Representatives for the Governments of Hungary and Luxembourg did not respond immediately to the surveys for comment.

Separately, EU measures The Russian economy is targetingIn particular, in the sovereign assets, there should be extended in July, including the March 200 freezing.

Additional report by Andy borders in Brussels and Marton Dunai in Budapest