Daily Mail published this video item, entitled “Italian police seize superyacht allegedly belonging to Putin” – below is their description.
Officers boarded The Scheherazade to serve paperwork to the yacht’s British captain Guy Bennett Pearce, telling him it would be unable to set sail from the dry dock where it is undergoing a multi-million-pound refit. Authorities in the Italian port of Marina di Carrara near Pisa have been trawling through paperwork in a bid to identify the vessel’s ultimate owner since March. Supporters of jailed Putin critic Alexei Navalny have established The Scheherazade’s Russian crew are all members of the Russian tyrant’s personal protection service. But they have since been spirited away in the dead of night and replaced by a skeleton crew of Britons who have been told they must remain onboard for the time being. The exclusive footage obtained by MailOnline shows a launch from the Italian financial police approaching the yacht with its blue lights flashing.
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