the oligarch Dmitri Rybolovlev, eel under the Rock – Liberation

Majority shareholder of the Monegasque club, the Russian businessman claims to no longer have any ties with the Kremlin in order to escape sanctions against those close to Putin, caught following the invasion of Ukraine. The European Union has not yet blacklisted it.

He is currently – and opportunely – sailing the southern seas, on one of his two mega yachts (Anna, 110 meters long, 230 million euros), further strengthening his reputation as an offshore, tax, political and financial nomad, sailing between Russia, Switzerland, Malta, Monaco or Singapore. The man left Saint-Vincent and headed for Australia, websites dedicated to luxury yachts allow him to be tracked on the oceans of the globe. Unless he stops in South Africa, a country which has not yet condemned the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, to avoid a possible and future seizure of his yacht in Australia (1) .

The EU has not yet dared to blacklist Dmitry Rybolovlev as a Putinophile oligarch. But this wealthy Russian, 55, appears on the radars of the United States. In 2018, the US Treasury had already placed him on a list of potentially punishable Russians. And in January, a few weeks before the war in Ukraine, his name appeared in a House of Representatives bill, the “Putin’s Accountability Law”, listing the assets of Russian nationals likely to be frozen for their proximity to the master of the Kremlin. It is all the interest and the impasse of these listings with very variable geometry.

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