The majority went to a security company owned by Mr. Aven’s financial manager, who has been under investigation for potentially helping Mr. Aven evade sanctions, court records show.
That is all,” said Mr. Aven, reached by phone in the Hamptons.
The British Treasury granted at least 82 licenses last year and many more applications are pending, according to official figures seen by The New York Times.
Treasury officials allowed Mr. Aven, for example, to spend more than £1 million while technically cut off from the British economy.
At the same time, law enforcement officers investigated him for possible sanctions evasion and raided his countryside mansion last year.
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