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Perched as it is in an upmarket neighbourhood overlooking the scenic Vondelpark, it is not hard to imagine why a Russian billionaire would have been interested in the 1879 five-storey Amsterdam property with a lush private garden. That billionaire was Arkady Volozh, a co-founder of Russia’s biggest search engine, Yandex. He bought the £3m house in 2019, becoming one of the dozens of wealthy Russians who have invested in property in the Dutch capital. But since October, the mansion, which… Source link

News Russian-Maltese oligarch Arkady Volozh with Vladimir Putin A Dutch court has ruled that squatters can effectively continue to stay at the multi-million-euro property owned by a member of Malta’s rouges gallery of passport buyers, Yandex founder and owner Arkady Volozh, because… Source link

A house in Amsterdam owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Arkady Volozh was occupied by activists. Despite the Yandex billionaire’s best efforts, a judge ruled that the squatters can stay. Volozh is not the first sanctioned oligarch to have his European property overtaken. … Source link

Another squat in Amsterdam. Photo: DutchNews.nl A Russian oligarch who is included on the EU sanctions list has lost his bid to have squatters evicted from a property he owns in central Amsterdam because his assets have been frozen. The multi-million euro building on the Vossiusstraat, with a view over Vondelpark, was squatted in late October by a group saying they planned to live in it until the owner is allowed to do something with the property again. ‘They were building luxury apartments,… Source link

A group of squatters have taken up residence in a house in Amsterdam that belongs to Yandex founder Arkady Volozh, they told the publishing network IndyMedia. The house’s new inhabitants said that they chose it intentionally, because despite the sanctions imposed against Volozh, the Dutch authorities have not seized his property. “It’s obvious that limiting [the rights of] Russian billionaires and oligarchs is not a priority for the Dutch authorities,” said the squatters. According to… Source link