The Amadea, a 348-foot luxury vessel, was owned by Suleiman Kerimov, according to the Department of Justice, which described Kerimov as 'a sanctioned Oligarch and beneficiary of Russian corruption.'
SAN DIEGO – A $300 million yacht that federal authorities say was seized from a Russian oligarch arrived Monday in San Diego.according to the Department of JusticeKerimov, 56, was sanctioned by the U.S.
government in 2018 for alleged money laundering and failure to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes related to the purchase of villas.“The successful seizure and transport of Amadea would not have been possible without extraordinary cooperation from our foreign partners in the global effort to enforce U.S. sanctions imposed in response to Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified war in Ukraine,” the Department of Justice said in a statement.
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