Ownership of this floating palace hasn’t been definitively established — Russians cover their tracks — but it’s believed to be Putin’s plaything.
Called the “Scheherazade” (the big boat in the photo below), it’s been laid up for repairs in an Italian port since last fall, and the Rome government just seized it under EU sanctions. See story here and here.
That’s a small sacrifice for The Boss to make, compared to the sacrifices he’s inflicting on Russian conscripts being blown to bits and burned alive in their tinfoil tanks.
Both U.S. government officials and supporters of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have “linked the 140m vessel to President Putin,” BBC News said. So I guess the question is whether it’s equipped and provisioned for post-apocalypse living?
But other reports suggest the yacht could belong to Eduard Khudainatov, a former CEO of Rosneft (which Greenpeace called “the dirtiest oil company in the world”), “who is not currently a target of EU sanctions.”
If so, he can claim it at Italy’s finance ministry, but he should bring proof of ownership with him (photo at left).
