Usmanov and USM Holdings targeted in latest UK sanctions

Or maybe the club's parlous financial state is saving us here as it may be viewed more as a millstone than an asset, and thus surely a more effective drain on resources than merely having funds frozen by sanctions?

Or is that what will eventually prevent Moshirir from 'funding' the new stadium?

And we are to believe that Alisher Usmanov "has not been engaged in business activity for a long period of time"? Hmmm…

Maybe Moshiri is looking for some experience in the area in the hope of helping Everton avoid any Premier League sanctions.

That phrase didn't really catch my eye as much as this one did:

"We will keep cutting them off from assets they thought were successfully hidden."

Given the very close connection that existed, even to the point of questions asked in Parliament, maybe the key word is "successfully hidden". USM funding of Everton and the new stadium has never been hidden – it's always been out there.

There's no business like show business.

It's definitely down to Bill Kenwright, this, because it's very unlikely that any legitimate businessmen would have tolerated such an inept nepotistic egomaniac?

Maybe that's me just being cynical, because there was nothing wrong with Russian money being hidden here a couple of years ago, but suddenly openness and transparency have become the order of the day for our very straight politicians, and this isn't so easy to understand!

Treasury Targets Russian Financial Facilitators and Sanctions Evaders Around the World

Better get that stadium finished and sold, Farhad, as you might soon be sharing a cell in San Quentin with your boss, Alisher… and Donald Trump.

But… (always a 'but')…

We are outraged now, when in fact, Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014.

No one batted an eyelid or turned down their money or energy supplies between then and the recent crisis.

And let's not talk about Saudi investment. Another moral high ground debate.

Get safe. Get the stadium built. Light up the Royal Blue Mersey.

So, in terms of what happened in 2014, the Russian annexation of Crimea, and what's happened since, this could be interesting.

The reason all the sanctions were put on them was the governments believed that, if they lost enough money and properties, they would pressure Putin to stop the war against Ukraine; this has not happened.

No one is saying that they are model citizens but, if the invasion of Ukraine had not happened, we would have welcomed the money for the naming writes on the new stadium, and there are worse regimes investing in the Premier League with silence from the league.

Reading that I would say that Moshiri at least being investigated. it could explain his preference for a Investor, rather than a buyer, taking on board your view..Could explain that the only time we have seen him was in his pullover, which he tried to fit on all of us.

Taking it at face value the selection of Bramley Dock as a Euro's venue and the Goodison Development p!an,all in separate Companies, being linked to EitC in recent reports, Moshiri possibly has distanced himself enough and by the nature of the business involved, pumping in his own money with abandonment,who is going to find fault with that? Would the Football Authorities be prepared to seem to provide endorsement, if there was the hint of anything.

Actually I think it would be better that they investigated Bill. Moshiri then could be a victim, with all our support, having been robbed by Bill.

We continued taking Russian money as a country as did the European continent years after the Russian invasion of Ukranian soil in 2014.

A few stern words and statements but that was it.

And no one batted an eyelid at their 2008 incursion into Georgia, where they still hold 20% percent of internationally recognised sovereign Georgian territory.

Outraged when it suits. Act after the horse has bolted.

Double standards? Or selective at best.

Moshiri is the one who hired the DOFs then ignored them, Moshiri is the one who gave too much power to agents in the past. Moshiri is the one with the dodgy financial links to Usmanov which have brought us under scrutiny. Moshiri is one in charge of the purse strings which funded and rubber stamped our dreadful transfer record under his tenure. Moshiri is the ACCOUNTANT in charge who has now brought us within real threat of FFP and potentially, relegation.

If that wasn't bad enough, Moshiri is the one who chooses Jim White as his media mouthpiece. How this man was so successful prior to Everton I do not know, he may have put his money where his mouth is but boy has he fucked it up.

MSP for 100% control of our club please, sack the board.

seems there was post movement between threads so feel free to erase this and the above.