$200M Russian Yacht To Be Sold, Proceeds To Ukraine

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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