even with russian billionaires not urmd under sanction. the super nova with an outdoor theater and water fall pool, reportedly owned by a russian oil company executive, left barcelona saturday and crossed the mediterranean. the ownership is often hidden behind complicated shell companies, these yachts are a symbol of the cash and prestige oligarchs have built under putin. luxuries like anti-missile defense systems, bomb-proof doors and a mini submarine or beauty salon and an elevator. one yacht now out of reach of any western authorities? the graceful. the german media has speculated the owner is none other than vladimir putin, himself. two weeks before the invasion of ukraine, the yacht left ham burg and sped to russia, where no location has been recorded since. jake, u.s. government also sanctioned five ships it says are tied to a russian bank. oil tafrpgers, freighters that are out there.
of several yachts connected to ool garks that have arrived in recent weeks in the maldives. an island nation in the indian ocean, where sanctions don t reach. that is according to the tracking service marine traffic. and a yacht called the graceful which german media has speculated is owned by vladimir putin, himself, hurried out of port in hamburg two weeks before the invasion of ukraine and has since been located in russia. at least two oligarchs seem to have broken with putin in recent days and call for an end to the war in ukraine but analysts say many of russia s top ohm oligarchs have lost their influence with vladimir putin in recent years and it is unlikely many of them could bring him down at this point. none of the oligarchs mentioned in this story respond today a request from comment from cnn sent to their businesses or lawyers. wolf. thank you very much, brian todd reporting. important development indeed. we are going to have much more on the crisis in ukraine just ahead.
a maritime lawyer will join us in a moment with lawyer answers to those questions. the yachts might be the easiest assets to seize from russian billionaires because it is so difficult to hide a 500 foot boat nothing quite expresses the russian billionaire is contempt for russia and russian culture more clearly than their yachts. none of the shots are registered in russia, most of them are registered in georgetown, the cayman islands. which is true of american owned super yachts also. and, none of the russian yachts have russian names, virtually none of them. there is lady am, alexei motor shot, that was seized in northern italy today. lady m is a typical boat name, but why not use the russian words for lady am. vladimir putin named one of his yachts graceful. for a guy who appears to hate people, whose native language is english, we can only wonder why he didn t use the russian word for graceful. graceful left a repair dock in
yachts are a symbol of the cash and prestige oligarchs have built under putin. luxuries like anti-missile defense systems, bomb-proof doors and a mini submarine. or a beauty salon and an elevator. one yacht now out of reach of any western authorities? the graceful. german media has speculated the owner is none other than vladimir putin himself. two weeks before the invasion of ukraine, the yacht left hamburg, germany, and sped to russia where no location data has been recorded since. and it s not just yachts. the u.s. government has sanctioned five ships it says are connected to a russian bank, oil tankers, and freighters. and in a sign this may be having its desired effect, that author katherine belton talked to of these oligarchs. she says they are shocked by what putin has done, never thought he would go this far. drew griffin, cnn, atlanta. vladimir putin says his invasion of ukraine is intended
happening right now to the yachts that have been seized. a maritime lawyer will join us in a moment with answers to those questions. the yachts might be the easiest assets to seize from russian billionaires because it is so difficult to hide a 500 foot boat. nothing quite expresses the russian billionaire s contempt for russia and russian culture more clearly than their yachts. none of their yatchs are registered in russia, most of them are registered in georgetown in the cayman islands. which is true of american owned super yachts also. and, none of the russian yachts have russian names, virtually none of them. there is lady m, alexei mordashov s yatch, that was seized in northern italy today. lady m is a typical boat name, but why not use the russian words for lady m. vladimir putin named one of his yachts graceful. for a guy who appears to hate people, whose native language isn t english, we can only wonder why he didn t use the russian word for graceful.