Previous cases include sanctioned former deputy prime minister and current state banker Igor Shuvalov, aluminum billionaire Oleg Deripaska and pro-Kremlin television host Vladimir Solovyov. Volozh is the latest high-profile Russian national to have had properties targeted by squatters or vandals since the start of the invasion. Officials declined to comment, but experts said Volozh’s property must be prohibited from being sold, rented out or renovated as part of the EU's asset freezes. The activists added that they occupied Volozh’s property “in support of Ukrainian and Russian anarchists who are fighting against their state.”ĭutch media said earlier in October that Volozh had reported the property to Dutch authorities in early September. “The rights of billionaires who see our cities as investments are better protected than those of vulnerable people who want a roof over their heads,” the squatters were quoted as saying by NRC.įorbes estimates Volozh’s net worth to have plummeted from $2.6 billion to under $600 million at the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Police reportedly visited the property on Monday but did not make any arrests. Enjoy the results of similar images on different search engines. English-language banners reading “against war and capitalism” were seen unfurled nearby. The protesters told NRC that they had been squatting in the vacant residence allegedly belonging to Volozh since Thursday evening.īanners reading “Yandex + FSB = ” in Cyrillic were photographed hanging from the five-story property, a reference to the tech giant’s alleged ties with Russia’s Federal Security Service. The Dutch daily NRC and weekly De Groene Amsterdammer reported in early October that Volozh was the owner of a 3.4-million-euro ($3.37 million) mansion in southern Amsterdam that he had purchased through an offshore company in 2018-19. Search the web, ask Alice, and find more services at yandex.lt: maps, public transport, weather, music, taxis, an online translator, email, and cloud storage. He stepped down in June after the European Union sanctioned him in its response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Yandex is a search engine and web portal. Volozh, 58, is the co-founder and former CEO of tech giant Yandex, Russia’s equivalent of Google.
A group of activists has occupied the multimillion-dollar Amsterdam home of EU-sanctioned Russian tech tycoon Arkady Volozh, Dutch media reported Monday.
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