Superyacht owned by a sanctioned Russian billionaire has reportedly anchored in the Maldives, which

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

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doesn't have an extradition treaty with the US

A superyacht owned by a US-sanctioned Russian billionaire has arrived in the Maldives, Agence France-Presse reported Tuesday. It's one of several Russian-owned pleasure craft believed to be headed to the sunny island nation, which doesn't have an extradition treaty with the US.

The yacht, Clio, is owned by Oleg Deripaska, the founder of the Russian aluminum group Rusal who was sanctioned by the US in 2018. Clio dropped anchor off Mala, the capital of the Maldives, on Monday, AFP said, citing port officials.

At least two other superyachts owned by Russian billionaires set sail for the Maldives shortly after Western nations threatened to seize assets from sanctioned oligarchs, according to data from MarineTraffic reported by CNBC.

In a tweet Saturday, the White House said: "This coming week, we will launch a multilateral Transatlantic task force to identify, hunt down, and freeze the assets of sanctioned Russian companies and oligarchs — their yachts, their mansions, and any other ill-gotten gains that we can find and freeze under the law."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-superyacht-owned-by-a-sanctioned-russian-billionaire-has-reportedly-anchored-in-the-maldives-which-doesn-t-have-an-extradition-treaty-with-the-us/ar-AAUtNn0

Is that the one who built the plant in Kentucky for Moscow Mitch?

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Sinking oligarch superyachts may become a thing in the near future.

[getagrip_already]

2. It would be a shame if a boomba were to find its way under the hull......

Who knows, maybe a massive whale fart will rise up under it and sink it.

Who can say?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Fly a team out there to hammer out an extradition treaty the Maldives can agree to. . . nt

[brewens]

4. Roger that. If they don't want to, I imagine we could make them want to. :) n/t

[FakeNoose]

5. If Deripaska's cash is frozen in western/US banks

... he probably can't afford to keep this yacht going much longer. It all depends on how much of his money is already "laundered" vs. how much is frozen in bank accounts under his own name.

By the way all of the oligarchs are in the same boat. They've all been trying to buy stuff with their ill-gotten Russian money, and the goal is to turn it into US or EU cash so it's no longer "Russian." That's what Chump did for them - he took their Russian money and sold them condos. Then they resold them and got American dollars in exchange. Nobody cared that Chump made a ridiculous profit, except Chump.

To the oligarchs, it's all free money anyway. Until it isn't.

[Metaphorical]

6. So when does the investigation into the Rusal plant in Kentucky start, Mitch?

With McConnell's sugar daddy now on the lam and wanted by the US, does anyone want to bet whether Moscow Mitch is likely to announce his retirement soon?

[Sneederbunk]

7. No extradition treaty and no submarine defense.