ROME — The value of frozen assets including luxury yachts and property
held by Russian oligarchs in
Italy amounted to around 140 million euros, the Italian
government said on Saturday.
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The most expensive asset was the “Lady M Yacht” belonging to
Alexei Mordashov, a metals magnate close to Russian President
Vladimir Putin.
The vessel is worth 65 million euros ($71 million).
Italian police seized the yacht on Friday after the
EU targeted
Mordashov and other Kremlin-linked oligarchs following Moscow’s invasion of
Ukraine.
A second yacht also impounded on Friday, the “Lena”, is worth 50
million euros and belongs to billionaire Gennady Timshenko, who co-founded
commodities company Gunvor.
A 17-million-euro property on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia
owned by Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov has also been seized.
The Italian government said other properties worth 11 million
euros belonging to two personalities considered close to the Russian regime
have also been seized.
EU sanctions
have targeted more than 500
Russian people or entities, whose assets and
economic resources are to be progressively frozen as EU countries locate them
and trace them to their owners.
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