Russian Boomerang Hits UK, Oligarchs Shift Assets From London

Thursday, July 24, 2014
By Paul Martin

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
07/24/2014

We warned 4 months ago that the UK especially should be fearful of sanctioning Russia and biting the hand that feeds its real estate recovery. However, it appears Cameron’s ire has got the better of him, as The Telegraph reports, allies of Vladimir Putin are understood to be moving assets after British demands to punish the Russian president’s ‘cronies‘ in the wake of the Malaysia Airlines disaster in Ukraine. The EU said Tuesday (albeit somewhat confusingly) that it had agreed to draw up a list of Russians who will face sanctions but the UK government refused to say which ‘oligarchs’ were being targeted as it was fearful of the risk of ‘asset flight’. It appears that backfired…

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