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re: Russia SANCTIONS: COUP- Putins' Hidden Fortune/ Palace & $100mil Yacht
Putin's Superyacht Faces Seizure
£500m yacht docked in Italy could be sanctioned
The Telegraph UK 22 MAR 2022
It is one of the world's biggest and most expensive superyachts - and it is allegedly owned by Vladimir Putin.
Italy has been urged to seize the yacht, called Scheherazade, after an investigation by the anti-corruption unit of Russia's jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Mr Navalny's team said the £500 million yacht, above, which is undergoing repairs and maintenance at a marina in western Italy, was staffed by officers from the Russian Federal Security Service.
The associates of Mr Navalny have now demanded Italian authorities confiscate the boat, which has a swimming pool with a retractable roof that converts into a dance floor. The Navalny investigation threatens to further embarrass Mr Putin.
It comes as Russia's war in Ukraine continues to stall. The leaders of the US, UK, France, Germany and Italy discussed the escalating crisis after Washington warned the Kremlin was changing tactics to bomb Ukraine into submission.
Overnight, US President Joe Biden said the Russian leader's "back is against the wall" and is considering using chemical weapons in Ukraine. The Pentagon last night accused Russian forces of war crimes and said it was helping to collect evidence of them.
And a Russian newspaper inadvertently disclosed that almost 10,000 Kremlin troops had been killed and another 16,000 wounded. Previously, the military had claimed that only 500 soldiers had died since the invasion.
Russian Assets UK Tracker
Roman Abramovich, Alisher Usmanov, Oleg Deripaska and Igor Shuvalov.
More than $17bn (£13bn) of global assets – including offshore bank accounts, yachts, private jets and luxury properties in London, Tuscany and the French Riviera – have been linked to 35 oligarchs and Russian officials alleged to have close ties to Vladimir Putin.
The Guardian, working in partnership with the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and other international news organisations, is unveiling the initial research in an ongoing project to track the wealth of Russia’s most powerful operators.
The Russian asset tracker project will start by focusing on a list of 35 men and women named last year as Putin’s alleged enablers by the jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny. It will record assets outside Russia where the reporting partners have seen evidence connecting them to these individuals.
The tracker has identified UK properties or plots of land – collectively worth more than half a billion dollars – that are linked through companies, trusts or relatives to four leading figures on Navalny’s list:
Roman Abramovich, Alisher Usmanov, Oleg Deripaska and Igor Shuvalov.
Abramovich Yacht Blocked by Ukrainian Protesters in Turkey
Abramovich yacht blocked by Ukrainian protesters in Turkey:
22 Mar 2022 Daily Mail
Footage from expat group 'Ukrainians in Bodrum'' shows Ukrainian protesters in a motor boat flying a Ukraine flag saying ‘No War’ tried in vain to stop Roman Abramovich's £430m Solaris from docking in Bodrum, Turkey by sailing in front of it.
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