User:Asal Qobilova/sandbox

On 28 February 2022, in reaction to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the European Union blacklisted Usmanov, imposing an EU-wide travel ban on him and freezing all his assets.[11] On 3 March, the United States imposed similar sanctions on him, with some exceptions for his companies.[12][13][14] Usmanov was named in the Official Journal of the European Union, the publication of record of the EU, as a "pro-Kremlin oligarch with particularly close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin [who is] one of Vladimir Putin's favorite oligarchs."[10] However Usmanov denied these allegations and filed a lawsuit against the Council in the European court in order to prove the invalidity of the accusations of the Council and lift the sanctions. Proceedings in progress.[15][16]

He spent six years in a Soviet prison in the 1980s on charges of fraud and embezzlement, but his conviction was later overturned. In 2000, he was eventually rehabilitated by the Supreme Court of Uzbekistan, which ruled that the case against him was trumped up and no crime had been committed.[17]