Roman Abramovich, the multibillionaire owner of Chelsea, has formally taken up Israeli citizenship after not yet receiving a renewed visa to the UK.
His visa for the UK expired last month, with more rigorous regulations put in place by the UK government following the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter.
Consequently, Abramovich decided to leave the country and take up citizenship of Israeli, where he is eligible to live due to the Law of Return which allows followers of the Jewish faith to move to the country.
Full story at Yahoo News.
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