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Former Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich will discuss the sale of the club in a new book set to be released this summer after giving his first interview in four years.<\/p>\n
Abramovich, who remains sanctioned by the UK Government due to alleged links to Russian president Vladimir Putin, has conducted a two-part interview about the \u00a32.5 billion sale of Chelsea in 2022 to American consortium Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital, a deal which took place after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n
The interviews took place in Abu Dhabi in January and in Istanbul a year prior and are said to include Abramovich’s account of his initial takeover of Chelsea FC in 2004: the sanctions, his efforts in the previous peace process and his suspected poisoning in March 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n Before these, Abramovich’s most recent interview was to Forbes in March 2021 and, aside from a short statement in January that year about Frank Lampard’s sacking and statements about Chelsea’s ‘Say No to Anti-Semitism’ campaign, he had not given an official interview since 2006.<\/p>\n The book named “Sanctioned: The Inside Story of the Sale of Chelsea FC” is written by Nick Purewall and will also tell other stories from that accelerated 95-day sale – run by Raine Bank under the supervision of the UK government – and will be released by Biteback Publishing this summer.<\/p>\n