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Sanctioned oligarch allowed to sell £16m home

A close associate of Roman Abramovich was given permission by the Treasury to sell his Surrey mansion for £16m, a month after the government designated him for UK sanctions and froze all his assets.

Former Chelsea Football Club director Eugene Tenenbaum was allowedf to sell Park Hill, an eight-bedroom mansion in Weybridge’s exclusive St George’s Hill estate, under a licence issued by sanctions officials on 12 May 2022. Tenenbaum was added to the UK sanctions list on 14 April last year.

The sale, to the chief executive of a Singapore hotels group, completed on 17 May 2022, according to Land Registry records.

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