Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich is arrest by FBI over Boris Berezovsky’s suspicius death . / Breaking News

Russia’s RBC TV had reported earlier that oligarch Roman Abramovich had been arrested by the FBI.

RBC’s initial report was quickly picked up by other news outlets, but few other details are available at present.

In a statement to the Independent’s Shaun Walker, Abramovich’s spokesman John Mann said that his client was in the US but had not been detained or arrested in any way.
Business Insider reached out the to FBI who would not confirm or deny there was an investigation.

Roman Abramovich, the billionaire business tycoon who owns London’s Chelsea Football Club, has been in the news recently after the sudden death of a rival UK-based oligarch, Boris Berezovsky.

Abramovich had recently beat Boris Berezovsky, once his business partner and mentor, in one of the costliest legal cases in UK history. Berezovsky’s death is not being treated as suspicious at this time.

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