to and from the uk to be operated by the airline have been cancelled. at 10:00 we will be here with a full round up of the day s news. first, our world: the hunt for the superyachts. for years, many russian billionaires enjoyed lavish lifestyles in the west. they bought the most sought after villas and holidayed on their beloved superyachts. but with russia s invasion of ukraine, theirfairytale came to an abrupt end. western sanctions sparked a game of cat and mouse between some of the world s most powerful nations and some of russia s richest men. there was a real frenzy around the world between democracies to see who could sanction the most people the most quickly, who could sanction the biggest yacht. we got stopped because this is a big, blue, easily visible, high profile target. for the first time, the head of the us kleptocapture task force reveals how they caught a superyacht. we saw it scrambling out of waters where we would normally be able to seize it. security, sec
and president putin when he was the financial times moscow bureau chief. what s really unique about alekperov is that he was a government minister in the soviet union who looked after oil and gas assets, and when he sees capitalism coming, jumps and reinvents himself as an oil executive and the controller and owner of a private oil company. he remained the powerful president of lukoil for nearly 30 years. the only way he s able to maintain control of a major oil company in private hands is that the kremlin trusts him, that putin knows he s not going to cause trouble. within 48 hours of putin s meeting his oligarchs, vagit alekperov s yacht was on the move. i walked past the berth of galactica super nova and.she was gone. two days after the invasion of ukraine, galactica super nova sailed from the port of barcelona.
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