Far less than half of the £2.35billion generated from Roman Abramovich's sale of Chelsea could go to victims of the war in Ukraine as promised, new accounts suggested today.
The oligarch was forced to sell Chelsea in 2022 after being sanctioned over his alleged ties to Vladimir Putin following Russia's invasion of its neighbour.
The government pledged all the money from the sale would be sent to support humanitarian causes in Ukraine.
But today it emerged that a fraction of the £2.35billion paid by Todd Boehly for the London Premier League giants may go to help people caught up in the European war.