EU Court Rejects Abramovich’s Latest Challenge to Sanctions
The court said the sanctions remain justified because Abramovich’s stakes in Evraz and Norilsk Nickel provide substantial revenue to the Russian government.
- On Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026, the European Union General Court rejected Roman Abramovich's third legal challenge to remove his name from the bloc's sanctions list, maintaining the asset freeze and travel restrictions.
- Brussels first sanctioned Abramovich in March 2022, citing his role as a major shareholder in Russian steel group Evraz and alleged ties to Vladimir Putin.
- Judges upheld the decision because companies like Evraz provide 'substantial revenue' to the Russian government, though Evraz has denied supplying products to the Russian military.
- The ruling leaves the asset freeze in place, alongside a separate dispute regarding $2.9 billion in proceeds from his 2022 sale of Chelsea Football Club to British authorities insisting funds support humanitarian causes in Ukraine.
- Beyond the European Union, authorities have frozen significant assets, including $340 million in property on the French Riviera and a villa in the Algarve valued at about 10 million euros.
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The court has already rejected other appeals from this mogul, former Chelsea owner, in December 2023 and September 2025. The 27 extended their sanctions with new texts, again appealed by Abramovich to European justice. In this case, the EU General Court, one of the two organs that make up the TJU, rejected Abramovich's claim that the EU wants to "exploit it by taking advantage of its public notoriety" The General Court, the jurisdiction competen…
Top Russian oligarch Abramovich loses third EU lawsuit, as Brussels plans tougher blacklist
If the EU wanted some red meat in its next sanctions, there were plenty of billionaires left to bite who, like Abramovich, "generate significant revenues for the Russian government".
Roman Abramovich lost a new action in the European Union's courts trying to cancel the sanctions imposed against him. The EU General Court rejected the Russian billionaire's challenge on Wednesday and maintained measures that freeze his assets and prohibit him from entering or transiting through the Community bloc.
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