Chelsea Soccer Assets Frozen as Abramovich Attempts to Sell Club

Chelsea's Russian owner Roman Abramovich waves, as players celebrate their league title win at the end of the Premier League football match between Chelsea and Sunderland at Stamford Bridge, in London, on May 21, 2017. Ben Stansall/Getty Images

The United Kingdom government placed sanctions on the owner of famed soccer club Chelsea, Roman Abramovich, as a result of his alleged ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin late last week on March 10.

Abramovich has been removed as the director of the club; his assets are frozen and travel bans have been placed by the UK government. Six other Russian “oligarchs” have been sanctioned including Igor Sechin, Oleg Deripaska, Dmitri Lebedev, Alexei Miller, Andrei Kostin, and Nikolai Tokarev.