🛥 More than a dozen yachts owned by sanctioned Russian oligarchs have been seized — or identified for seizure — since the invasion of Ukraine began, according to public reports reviewed by Axios.
of a special task force intent on using "every tool to freeze and seize" the assets of sanctioned Russian oligarchs.. Spanish authorities acted at the request of the U.S. to seize a $90 million, 255-foot yacht owned by billionaire Viktor Vekselberg.
Authorities have separately seized or moored Russian-owned yachts docked in Italy, France, Croatia, the U.K., the Dominican Republic, Germany, and Antigua and Barbuda. Desperate to find safe harbor, some oligarchs have set for international waters or countries that have not been enforcing Western sanctions.
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