HEARTS swear it is business as usual with Vladimir Romanov but a worrying accumulation of evidence exists to the contrary.
HEARTS swear it is business as usual with Vladimir Romanov but a worrying accumulation of evidence exists to the contrary.
Edinburgh City Council have placed conditions on the sale of Tynecastle. Picture: SNS
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Stewart Fisher
The collapse of Ukio Bankas may have cost Romanov his entire £250m fortune, but it should also be remembered that the fall of his empire has strewn a trail of debris across the continent.
Lithuanian football champions FBK Kaunas and his Belarusian club MTZ-Ripo Minsk (latterly Partisan Minsk) are both effectively defunct; his more recent basketball plaything Zalgiris Kaunas is now thought to be operated by UBIG – the investment arm of Ukio Bankas, whose board Romanov and Sergejus Fedotovas left this week – leaving the Tynecastle club, where Fedotovas remains a director, as the only pillar still standing.
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