UK government imposes sanctions on Chelsea FC director Eugene Tenenbaum

Move attempts to freeze up to 10bn of assets linked to club's Russian oligarch owner Roman Abramovich

The UK government has imposed sanctions on Chelsea football club director Eugene Tenenbaum in an attempt to freeze up to 10bn of assets linked to the club's Russian oligarch owner Roman Abramovich.

The UK said it was extending sanctions to Tenenbaum and David Davidovich, another close associate of Abramovich, because the oligarch had transferred billions of pounds of assets to the pair as Russia invaded Ukraine.