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Russian oligarchs ordered to pledge allegiance to Vladimir Putin

2022-03-18T19:14:29.892Z


INVESTIGATION – The head of the Kremlin requires billionaires targeted by sanctions, and who often live abroad, to support the cause of Russia against Westerners.


Correspondent in Moscow

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“I do not condemn those who have a villa in Miami or on the Côte d'Azur, who cannot do without foie gras, oysters or the so-called freedom of the genres.

But the problem is that many of these people are mentally there and not here, with our people 

”: it is in these terms that Vladimir Putin warned, last Wednesday, the Russian oligarchs.

The point is clear, either you are with us, or the country will reject you, as it will reject the

“national traitors”

of the

“fifth column”

on which the West relies to

“attempt to divide our society”

.

Read alsoThe raw truth of the Putin regime which promises to punish “traitors”

Bad weather decidedly for the oligarchs.

Already targeted by sanctions since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the great Russian fortunes built in the shadow of the Kremlin have also shifted into another dimension with the "special military operation" launched on February 24 against Ukraine.

Since that date, several waves of restrictions…

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Source: lefigaro

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