'We are coming for your ill-begotten gains,' President Joe Biden told oligarchs during his State of the Union address.
As authorities in France and Germany seized yachts owned by Russians, several others owned by Russians have headed to the Maldives and Montenegro, CNBC first reported., a superyacht owned by Viktor Rashnikov, is currently anchored in the Maldives, after setting sail from from Dubai., an 288-foot-long vessel owned by one of Russia's richest men, Vladimir Potanin.
Meanwhile, Vagit Alekperov, the president of Russian energy company Lukoil, ordered his 229-foot yachtIt comes as German authorities reportedly seized Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov's superyacht, worth almost $600 million, in a Hamburg shipyard. A picture taken on March 3, 2022 in a shipyard of La Ciotat in southern France, shows a yacht, Amore Vero, owned by a company linked to Igor Sechin, chief executive of Russian energy giant Rosneft.And on Thursday, France's finance minister Bruno Le Maire said authorities had seized a yacht belonging to Rosneft boss Igor Sechin as it tried to leave the Mediterranean port of La Ciotat.
But customs officers on Wednesday noted the yacht was"making arrangements to sail off urgently, without the repair works being completed."against those close to the Russian authorities," Le Maire wrote in a tweet.Merci aux douaniers français qui font respecter les sanctions de l'Union européenne à l'encontre des proches du pouvoir russe.
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