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Floating liabilities: Western authorities grapple with the cost of seizing oligarchs’ superyachts

by Stephen Beard

May 19, 2022

Detaining luxury vessels worth hundreds of millions of dollars was the easy bit. Maintenance runs about 10% of the yachts' value.

Above, a superyacht with suspected links to a Russian oligarch is docked in the Dominican Republic. For governments, seizing the pricey vessels comes with outrageous maintenance costs.

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