Russian billionaire Dmitri Rybolovlev, owner of AS Monaco, announced in a press release published by his club on Wednesday that he had "decided to make donations in order to provide humanitarian aid", to help civilian populations who are suffering. of the war in Ukraine.

“Responding to the appeal launched by the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), AS Monaco and its president Dmitri Rybolovlev, in a personal capacity, made donations to the Monegasque Red Cross, in order to come to the aid of civilian populations suffering from the armed conflict in Ukraine”, indicates the press release from the club of the Principality.

The amount of the donation remained secret

This same press release concludes with a statement by Dmitri Rybolovlev.

“It is absolutely necessary to support those who suffer the most,” he stresses.

This is why AS Monaco, Cercle Bruges (owned by ASM) and myself, as well as various companies in which the Rybolovlev family trust is invested, have decided to make donations in order to 'provide humanitarian aid'.

Neither the club nor the Rybolovlev family trust wished to communicate on the amount of this donation, however qualified as “substantial”.

Majority shareholder of AS Monaco since 2013 and Monegasque resident since this period, Dmitri Rybolovlev officially left Russia in 2010. He has a Cypriot passport and his name does not appear in the lists of Russian personalities whose European Union has frozen assets.

His fortune, estimated at more than six billion euros, comes mainly from the forced sale of his shares in Uralkali, a global potash giant, of which he was the majority shareholder, to relatives of Vladimir Putin in 2010.

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