Who are the three Russian oligarchs sanctioned by the UK over Ukraine?

Vladimir Putin’s cronies who were hit by sanctions yesterday all have ties with Britain, The Times can reveal.

Relatives of the three Russian businessmen, Gennady Timchenko, Boris Rotenberg and Igor Rotenberg, were educated in England and some of their children have British citizenship.

Two of the three “high net wealth” individuals have a history of offloading shares and businesses onto their children and business partners, seemingly in an effort to avoid US and EU sanctions.

Timchenko, one of Russia’s richest men, with an estimated wealth of £18 billion, was sanctioned yesterday because of his involvement with Bank Rossiya, described by the US Treasury as “the personal bank for senior officials of the Russian Federation”.

Timchenko and Putin have been friends since at least the early