The son of billionaire Pumpyansky complained about the difficulties of life in Switzerland

According to the businessman, due to sanctions in Switzerland, he lost the opportunity to service a mortgage loan and even buy groceries,and the mobile operator Swisscom turned off his phoneAlexander Pumpyansky

The former chairman of the board of directors of the Sinara group, Alexander Pumpyansky (resigned after he fell under EU sanctions in March 2022 ), complained in an interview with Blick about the impossibility of living normally in Switzerland, whose citizenship he has had since 2016.

“I am not an oligarch,” Alexander Pumpyansky, who was included in the EU and then Swiss sanctions list after his father Dmitry Pumpyansky, whose fortune FORBES estimates in real time at $1.9 billion, told Blick.

According to the businessman, due to the sanctions in Switzerland, he lost the ability to service a mortgage loan and even buy groceries, the mobile operator Swisscom turned off his phone, and the rented car of the BMW X7 series was demanded to be returned.

“Switzerland deprives its own citizens of the opportunity to live in their country,” says Pumpyansky Jr., according to whom such actions by the country’s authorities are contrary to its Constitution. As a result, he, along with his wife and children, who were born and raised in Switzerland and even their native language is French, was forced to move to Turkey.

Blick notes that Pumpyansky condemns the military operation that RUSSIA is conducting in Ukraine, but cannot get permission from the Swiss agency responsible for the application of sanctions (SECO, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs), even to pay for even the basic needs of his family.

In March, Dmitry Pumpyansky withdrew from the beneficiaries and directors of the Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK), in which he owned 90.6% through TMK Steel Holding Ltd. At the same time, his son Alexander left the board of directors of TMK. In the same month, Dmitry and Alexander Pumpyansky ceased to be the beneficiaries of the Sinara group and left the boards of directors of Sinara, PJSC Bank Sinara and JSC STM.

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On August 3, the Swiss authorities supported the seventh package of EU anti-Russian sanctions, including an embargo on gold supplies. As part of the new restrictions, Switzerland, like the EU, will freeze the assets of Sberbank. At the end of July, the authorities of this country also added 54 more individuals and nine legal entities to the sanctions list. “Thus, the list of persons and organizations subject to Swiss sanctions in connection with the situation in Ukraine is fully consistent with the EU list,” the Swiss government said in a statement.