with the russian government and special tax breaksthe british government said evraz a steel company in which abramovich is the largest shareholder could contribute to the war against ukraine and supply steel for russian tanks evraz has denied this saying it only supplies steel to the infrastructure and construction sectorsevraz has not been sanctioned by the british government its londonlisted shares were suspended by britains financial conduct authority after abramovich was sanctioned tenenbaum was among 10 of evrazs board members who quit on march 11 because of the abramovich sanctions the company saidabramovich put reigning european champions chelsea up for sale on march 2 but following the sanctions announcement the club was made to operate under a special licence and is now effectively controlled by the british governmentseveral potential buyers of chelsea have confirmed their interest and the deadline for the first round of bids is fridayrelationship endedtenenbaum 57 was born in ukraine when it was part of the soviet union and has been on chelseas board for 19 years he was previously the head of corporate finance at sibneft an oil company sold in 2006 by abramovichtenenbaum said in his statement that he does not agree with the way abramovich has been publicly characterised the british government said when it sanctioned abramovich that he had been a close ally of putin for decadesit is my hope that the unjust measures imposed on mr abramovich will be reassessed he said unfortunately as a british citizen and due to the new regulations i am unable to continue to work with him personallyervington has served as an investment vehicle for abramovich for at least eight years it was among investors who put 600 million into yandex in 2020 and who put money into via a ridesharing apptenenbaum moved to canada at a young age and previously worked for accounting firm kpmg in toronto moscow and london according to the chelsea website