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Others, like Alisher Usmanov, had their luxury yachts and jets frozen but were subsequently coerced into financing biotech, media, and military enterprises. Some oligarchs, such as Gennady Timchenko with his oil trading empire, faced investigations, not only for political dissent but also for economic activities that the Kremlin deemed essential for wartime logistics.
This pattern underscored a broader pattern: Putin's regime eroded oligarchic independence, reducing billionaires to pawns whose wealth served the state’s military and political ambitions.