Russian oligarchs want to offer to buy off sanctions

Russian oligarchs intend to provide an opportunity to pay off Western sanctions, thus avoiding restrictions on the international market. They will contribute the money to the "Repentance Fund", and the funds collected in this way will go to the restoration of Ukraine destroyed by Russia. This was stated by the head of the Servant of the People faction in the Verkhovna Rada, David Arakhamia, writes Forbes .

He also stressed that this idea belongs to the international partners of Ukraine.

There were such discussions, but not within the country, but at the level of our international partners. They offered to consider this idea. Here we need a model that will be approved at the level of all partner countries, - said Arakhamia.

According to the people's deputy, the opportunity to pay off will not be allowed for all Russian oligarchs, but only for some - for citizens of the Russian Federation, whose business is not in Russia, but in other countries.

Such an opportunity may be for those oligarchs who have the citizenship of the Russian Federation, but the entire business is located in other countries. When, in fact, it is not the Russian budget that suffers from sanctions, but, for example, the British one. If such a businessman is ready to give a certain amount for the restoration of Ukraine, then I am tolerant of this. If we are talking about businessmen who pay taxes in Russia and thereby finance the war in Ukraine, then I am against it,” the deputy stressed.

Meanwhile, in Ukraine, a petition "On the confiscation and transfer to state ownership of the property of Russian oligarchs in Ukraine" was registered on the website of the Office of the President, the author of which proposes to amend the legislation that will allow "to compensate for the damage caused to Ukraine and the people of Ukraine by Russian military" aggression "at the expense of the assets of sanctioned oligarchs.