The luxurious 460ft-long Scheherazade is believed to have been used by the Kremlin leader s lover Alina Kabaeva, 39, according to an opposition news outlet.
Officers boarded The Scheherazade to serve paperwork to the yacht s British captain Guy Bennett Pearce, telling him it would be unable to set sail from the dry dock near Pisa.
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