Media: Usmanov will leave the Bureau of the Board of the RSPP

Entrepreneur, founder of USM holding Alisher Usmanov decided to leave the Bureau of the Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP). About it informed RBC with reference to a source close to the union.

This information was confirmed by the source of RIA Novosti. According to him, in a statement, Usmanov asks to be released from membership in the Bureau of the Board of the RSPP “in connection with retirement and retirement from active work.” According to information RBCUsmanov’s statement can be considered at a meeting of the Bureau of the Union, which will be held on January 25.

Usmanov is under EU sanctions since February 2022. In early November last year, the Financial Times, citing two sources familiar with the discussion, wrotethat the Uzbek authorities asked Brussels to lift sanctions against Usmanov and his sister Gulbahor Ismailova.

Tashkent reported that the imposed sanctions against the entrepreneur limited his ability to invest part of his fortune in the republic. Usmanov’s spokesman, speaking to the FT, confirmed that EU restrictions do hinder investment and charitable projects.

In April 2022 Usmanov filed to the European Court of Justice, a claim against the Council of the EU demanding that personal sanctions be lifted from him. Ismailova also appealed the EU’s decision to impose restrictions on her, the FT said. Earlier, sanctions were lifted from another sister of Usmanov, Saodat Narziyeva. In September 2022, Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg expelled lifting of sanctions against Russian entrepreneurs in the near future.