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Thursday briefing: Everton were ‘funded by Alisher Usmanov while barred from UK’

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4 May 2023 - 4:30 AM

Everton were funded by the oligarch Alisher Usmanov while he was barred from entering the UK, according to an investigation by The Guardian.

The Uzbekistan-born Russian billionaire was told in a letter from the Home Office in September 2021 that his presence in the UK was “not deemed conducive to the public good”.

That ban came six months before the businessman was sanctioned in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – after which Everton cut ties to USM H

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