Christopher Ems

I would call them, they go, we're following up.

My MP in the UK was very vocal about it.

He was getting absolutely nothing back from the foreign office.

So essentially, they just left me stranded here.

I mean, they had no desire to help.

So I was sort of like, well, I'm not going to go to the UK.

And fortunately, I'd fought on my feet while I was out.

So what I did is I thought, well, I can go to Russia.

And this was before even the current conflict started.

I thought, this is a place, if I'm going to be safer anywhere, it's going to be here.

And I was lucky living in Dubai and things.

I knew Russian people.

I didn't consider Russian people to be devils with horns.

So I set up a Russian company, actually applied for a Russian visa that took a few months.

So I was all ready to go.

And I'd also...

written letters already to the ministry of foreign affairs here explaining my situation and they'd written back to me and said look mr james we've reviewed this um if you want to come here we're not going to have any problem and when you get here you we feel that you have the right to apply for asylum but then the question was how do i get to russia without transiting through there's no direct flights from riyadh to moscow right so i'm like oh how am i going to do this

Well, the only way out is to fly private, right?

Which is an opulent expense.

But being in crypto, I'm very fortunate that I've got a few quite wealthy mates.