Roman Abramovich's £40,000 takeaway

Rumour has it that Roman Abramovich, unable to find sushi in Baku, had some flown in from east London at a cost of £40,000.

In his review in The Sunday Times of Londongrad: From Russia with Cash; The Inside Story of the Oligarchs by Mark Hollingsworth and Stewart Lansley, Rod Liddle picked out a particular example to epitomise the "outrageous vulgarity, tastelessness and ruthlessness of people who are wealthy beyond all imagining".

Roman Abramovich, owner of Chelsea Football Club, and arguably London's favourite oligarch (spending pots of money on a local football team and having a pretty girlfriend who spends pots of money on the local arts scene will do that for a man), was in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, when he fancied some sushi.

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