# Mikhail Fridman Co-founder of the Alfa Group and [[Alfa Bank]]. Sanctioned by the EU and UK in 2022, never personally by the U.S. He left London for Israel and then Moscow in October 2023, won an EU General Court annulment of his listing in April 2024, filed investment-treaty claims including $16 billion against Luxembourg, and was removed from the EU sanctions list on September 22, 2026. See [[Alfa Bank]] and [[Russian Oligarchy]].