By Tony O’Reilly-
A Russian oligarch has attacked his country’s “massacre” in Ukraine and called for an exit for the Russian president in order to end what he described as a crazy war.
Oleg Tinkov wrote in a profanity-littered Instagram post that he did not see “any beneficiary” of the conflict, and called for the ‘collective West’ to give Mr Putin a clear exit to save his face and stop this massacre. Please be more rational and humanitarian.”
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One of Russia’s most well-known entrepreneurs , Tinkov founded the global online bank Tinkoff Bank and owned the cycling team Tinkoff-Saxo.
Mr Tinkov is credited with having the brain of a successful entrepreneur, and owns about 35% of Cyprus-based TCS Group Holding, whose stable of companies under the Tinkoff brand span sectors from banking and insurance to mobile services.
He is also one of the most high profile Russians to publicly condemn President Vladimir Putin’s actions. Two of Russia’s prominent oligarchs Mikhail Fridman and Oleg Deripaska have made separate calls for peace, but have stopped short of direct criticism.
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In his Instagram post, Mr Tinkov said 90% of Russians were against the war in Ukraine and added “morons in any country are 10%”.
“I don’t see a SINGLE beneficiary of this insane war! Innocent people and soldiers are dying,” Mr Tinkov added.
“Waking up with a hangover, the generals realized that they have a shit army.
“And how will the army be good, if everything else in the country is shitty and mired in nepotism, sycophancy and servility?”
Switching to English in his post, Mr Tinkov wrote: “Dear ‘collective West’ please give Mr Putin a clear exit to save his face and stop this massacre. Please be more rational and humanitarian.”
Russian oligarchs in the Uk and all over Europe and the U.S have suffered severely as a result of the war in Ukraine.
On Tuesday, U.S. government attempted to seize a superyacht docked in Fiji that is widely believed to be owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov, according to a restraining order application filed by Fijian authorities.
The Amadea yacht is “restrained from leaving Fijian waters” until U.S. authorities finalize their warrant to seize the ship, Fiji’s public prosecutor, Christopher Pryde, said in a statement.
The move comes as Western countries have ramped up efforts to seize and freeze assets around the world owned by sanctioned Russian individuals with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kerimov has been sanctioned in the U.S. since 2018.
The roughly $325 million yacht arrived in Fiji’s Lautoka port from Mexico last week, according to MarineTraffic, a maritime analytics company. Ship registration filings show that Amadea is flagged to the Cayman Islands.
Last week, NBC News confirmed that the billionaire’s reported luxury vessel had arrived in Fiji, as part of a wider investigation with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists into how Kerimov and his associates used a maze of corporate structures to obscure his astronomical wealth.
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