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Mar 22 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
🚢Italy has been urged to seize a superyacht allegedly owned by Vladimir Putin after an investigation by the anti-corruption unit of Alexei Navalny, Russia's jailed opposition leader

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Alexei Navalny's team said the £500 million yacht was staffed by officers of the Russian Federal Security Service

⚓️The vessel, called Scheherazade, is undergoing repairs and maintenance at a marina in western Italy
It is said to be the world's most expensive yacht whose owner has not been identified.

➡️The call to seize the superyacht comes as Russia's war with Ukraine continues to stall.
Scheherazade in numbers

🔹Length: 140m
🔹Speed: 19 knots
🔹Price: $700m
🔹Annual running costs: $50-75m
🔹Gross tonnage: 10,167
🔹Decks: 6

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
Scheherazade, which sails under a Cayman Islands flag, was launched in 2020 and it is registered to a company called Bielor Assets Ltd, domiciled in the Marshall Islands, but the real owner remains shrouded in secrecy
The New York Times said it had spoken to a former crew member who said shipmates called it "Putin's yacht"

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
Details of the investigation were published online on Monday and threaten to further embarrass Putin.

➡️Associates of Mr Navalny have previously identified an extravagant £760 million palace on the Black Sea coast as allegedly belonging to the Russian president
Read the full story ⤵️
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