The Guardian reports:
A $200m (£163m) superyacht owned by Viktor Medvedchuk, an oligarch and friend of Vladimir Putin who is under sanctions, is to be sold at auction after its seizure in Croatia earlier this year.
The Ukrainian government said a Croatian court had ruled that Medvedchuk’s 92.5-metre Royal Romance yacht should be transferred to the Ukrainian Asset Recovery and Management Agency (Arma), which said it would “preserve the economic value by selling it at auction”.
It would be first such sale on behalf of the people of Ukraine since western governments imposed restrictions on the assets of hundreds of oligarchs after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February.
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$200 million superyacht of Viktor Medvedchuk, pro-Russian Ukrainian operative + Putin pal who served as Kuchma’s gray cardinal + was recently swapped in POW exchange with Moscow, is to be sold at auction after Croatia seized it, with proceeds going to Kyiv https://t.co/PeV0NQjcrH
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) December 2, 2022
Meanwhile in Russia: in all seriousness, pundits and experts on Russian state TV argue whether President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky is the Antichrist or just a small demon. pic.twitter.com/08yt8aPP8d
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