Scheme to avoid tax on offshore billions may have been botched because money was managed from the UK, BBC learns.

FORMER Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich could owe the UK up to £1billion in unpaid tax, it is claimed. The sanctioned Russian oligarch allegedly used the money as part of a botched tax dodge to help

Roman Abramovich could owe up to £1bn in unpaid taxes from investments funding Chelsea FC, according to leaked documents.

A tax avoidance scheme linked to Roman Abramovich may leave him owing the UK £1 billion, partly funding Chelsea FC.

Roman Abramovich may owe up to £1 billion in unpaid taxes after hedge fund investments were mismanaged from the UK, linked to Chelsea FC.

Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich used a complex offshore scheme to dodge millions in tax on his fleet of luxury superyachts, leaked documents have revealed. Files from Cyprus Confidential show how Abramovich's companies created a fiction that five of his superyachts were being hired out commercially to avoid VAT payments.