Moshe Kantor, the president of the European Jewish Council and vice president of the Jewish Leadership Council, has been officially sanctioned by the UK government over his ties to Vladimir Putin.
Dr Kantor, an oligarch who is CEO of the Acron Group, one of the leading mineral fertilizer producers and distributors in the world, has long been tied to the Russian government.
The businessman and philanthropist, who had an estimated net worth of $7.6 billion in 2021, according to Forbes was hit by sanctions targeting Russia's largest bank and several other oligarchs. The Kantor King Solomon High School in Essex was named in his honour after he helped to develop its campus.
The British government announced they were adding Andrey Akimov, Aleksander Dyukov, Andrey Guryev, Moshe Kantor, Sergey Kogogin, Sergey Sergeyevich, Leonid Mikhelson, and Boris Rotenberg to the list of Russian-affiliated businessmen sanctioned.
