FILE PHOTO: Russian billionaire and owner of Chelsea football club Roman Abramovich arrives at a division of the High Court in central London October 31, 2011. REUTERS/Andrew Winning/
March 16, 2022
LISBON (Reuters) – A law that enabled Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich to become a Portuguese citizen due to his alleged ascendancy from Sephardic Jews has been altered but the changes will not be retroactive, the foreign minister said on Wednesday.
“The decree introduces a requirement for (applicants to have an) effective connection with Portugal,” Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva said, describing it as a “mechanism” to prevent the law to be “manipulated.”
(Reporting by Catarina Demony, editing by Inti Landauro)
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