Dylan Bettencourt
UNgqongqoshe wezemidlalo wase-United Kingdom uNigel Huddleston uvumele i-Saudi Arabia ukuthi ithenge i-Chelsea.
Lokhu kwenzeka naphezu kwamarekhodi amabi aleliyazwe athinta ukuhlukunyezwa kwamalungelo abantu.
“Ubudlelwano be-UK ne-Saudi Arabia bubaluleke kakhulu,” kusho uHuddleston.
Umnikazi wamanje we-Chelsea u-Roman Abramovich ujeziswe nguhulumeni waseBrithani ngokuxhumana kwakhe noMengameli wase-Russia uVladimir Putin.
U-Abramovich usolwa ngokubandakanyeka kanye nokuthinteka emisebenzini eminingana engekho emthethweni ukuze athole isikhundla sakhe sokuba ngusozigidi – imisebenzi uhulumeni waseBrithani ayeyazi ngaphambi kokuba athenge iqembu lase-London ngo-2003.
Umbiko we-BBC uveze ukuthi u-Abramovich wayethinteka ekugetshengweni kwesitimela esigcwele udizili ngo-1992, ethenga inkampani ka-oyela ngezindali ezikhohlisayo ngo-1995 kanye nokuthunjwa okwenzeka e-Moscow kowayeqhudelana naye wase-China ngo-2002.
Naphezu kobugebengu obusobala buka-Abramovich, wavunyelwa ukuthenga i-Chelsea futhi manje usethengise iqembu ngemuva kokuthi i-Russia ihlasele i-Ukraine.
I-Chelsea iyakuxwaya ukuvumela ubunikazi bezwe elibucayi kwezepolitiki njenge-Saudi Arabia, kodwa uhulumeni waseBrithani uthe ubudlelwano babo naleliyazwe bubalulekile.
“I-Saudi Arabia inguzakwabo we-UK obalulekile kwezotshalomali, kwezobuhlakani namasiko. Siyakwamukela ukutshalwa kwezimali kwase-Saudi Arabia,” kusho uHuddleston.
“Imisebenzi eminingi e-UK incike ebudlelwaneni bethu nabantu base-Saudi Arabia. Sithatha ithuba lokukhuluma ngokungagwegwisi nangokukhululeka ne-Saudi Arabia.”
Isimemezelo sokubaluleka kwe-Saudi Arabia e-United Kingdom size ngesikhathi uNgqongqoshe ebuzwa ukuthi ngabe i-Newcastle United bekufanele yini ivunyelwe ukuthengwa ngabanikazi base-Saudi Arabia.
Izwe linerekhodi elibi lamalungelo abantu, elikhonjiswe muva nje ngokubulawa kwabantu abaningi besilisa abangu-81 ezweni ngosuku olulodwa ngoMgqibelo odlule.
Njengoba kwakunjalo ngo-Abramovich cishe eminyakeni engamashumi amabili edlule, zonke izindlela zokutshala izimali zamukelekile emhlabeni webhola kuze kube yilapho ubugebengu babo bugxila emhlabeni.
Ngesikhathi abalandeli be-Chelsea bejabule kakhulu ngemali engase ilethwe ngabanikazi base-Saudi Arabia, usongo lwesimo sayo samanje sizokwenzeka futhi esikhathini esizayo sihlala kuyinto engenzeka.
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