The Sanctioned Oligarch’s Son and a £160m London Property Empire
The son of a Russian billionaire facing sanctions for supporting the dictator who runs Belarus has been linked to a £160m portfolio of London properties. Said Gutseriev, a 34-year-old businessman with British and Russian nationality, appears to have spent years amassing a collection of at least seven properties in central London. They range from large office buildings in the City to a pair of £17m townhouses in south Kensington knocked together to make one residence. Said’s father, Mikhail Gutseriev, was blacklisted last year, by the EU in June and the UK in August, months after the violent repression of protests…