The government isn’t getting anything out of it. The money technically isn’t theirs. It’s frozen assets, not seized. They are just refusing to unfreeze it until there’s some proof that Abramovich is actually going to do with it what he promised, and that it isn’t secretly helping the Russian war effort.
they took it out of greed and are keeping it out of greed. there was never any other element to the situation.
The government isn’t getting anything out of it. The money technically isn’t theirs. It’s frozen assets, not seized. They are just refusing to unfreeze it until there’s some proof that Abramovich is actually going to do with it what he promised, and that it isn’t secretly helping the Russian war effort.
Or the fact that one of Abramovichs steel companies was providing steel for Russian tanks.