11:10 - 18.03.2022

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March 18, Fineko/abc.az. Billionaire Friedman spoke about the difficulties he had to face.

ABC.AZ reports that Alfa-Bank’s founder Mikhail Fridman told Bloomberg Businessweek about the difficulties he faced due to the freezing of accounts, and questioned the productivity of Western restrictions.

The day after the EU sanctions were imposed, Fridman discovered that his bank card was not working. The entrepreneur, who lives in London, said that after blocking accounts, he will have to get permission to spend money from the British government, which must determine whether his request is "reasonable".

"I do not know how to live on. I really don't know," Friedman said.

Mikhail Fridman is a Russian oligarch and banker. He is considered one of the seven bankers who had great influence on the Kremlin's political decisions during the presidency of Boris Yeltsin.