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

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

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.

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.