OREANDA-NEWS  The former owner of Tinkoff Bank, Oleg Tinkov, said that he should not have been subject to UK sanctions.

"I should never have been sanctioned, but I understand that mistakes can be made in difficult situations. I hope that now we will be able to correct this mistake," the businessman wrote on his Instagram page (banned in Russia; owned by Meta Corporation, which is recognized as extremist in Russia).

Tinkov also noted that professors of leading universities in the UK, as well as many businessmen, including Richard Branson, spoke in his defense.

Earlier, Bloomberg reported that Tinkov appealed to the British Foreign Ministry with an official request to lift sanctions against him. In response to the agency's request for comment, a representative of the British Foreign Ministry said that the Ministry does not comment on the appointment of individual restrictions, and any sanctioned individual or legal entity has the right to challenge the measures in the prescribed manner.