Chelsea owner and Russian Billionaire Roman Abramovich who has recently found himself without a visa to Britain took Israeli citizenship on Monday and will move to Tel Aviv where he has acquired a property, an Israeli media report has disclosed.

Abramovich has been counted as one of the richest men in Britain since he bought Chelsea in 2003. However, his British visa expired last month and it was revealed to Reuters by sources that the renewal was taking longer than expected, although there has been no comment from the British government on the case.

According to the Ynet website which is Israel’s biggest-selling daily, Yedioth Aharonoth, said Abramovich, who is also Jewish flew into Tel Aviv on Monday and had received documents which confirmed his status as an Israeli citizen.

No comments were made by an immigration absorption ministry official due to individual privacy, but a spokeswoman for the Population Administration in charge of border control confirmed that the Russian billionaire was in Israel. A spokeswoman for Abramovich also declined to comment on the report.

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