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US Justice Department’s “Operation KleptoCapture” which is focused on the lawful seizure of Russian oligarch assets has moved to seize two planes belonging to billionaire Roman Abramovitch, a Gulfstream G650ER and a Boeing 787, according to court documents. @Tom_Winter
— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) June 6, 2022
There’s going to come a time in the not too distant future when a lot of people are going to wish that they would not have let the concept of “inalienable property rights” disappear from the Western world without so much as a whimper.
If they can steal the property of Russians without any form of due process because “Russians are bad people,” then they can steal the property of anyone they deem to be bad people. They have not attempted to set any kind of standard of what it means to be “a bad person.” They are just claiming, without any evidence, that anyone with a Russian last name is a “pawn of Putin.”
A U.S. court on Monday issued warrants for the seizure of two luxury planes owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich under U.S. measures imposed after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, court records showed.
But the U.S. government’s likelihood of gaining control of the aircraft worth nearly $400 million was uncertain.
A Department of Justice official said the $350 million Boeing 787 Dreamliner and $60 million Gulfstream G650 ER were not in U.S. custody, and the official declined to say if the U.S. government knows their locations.
A federal judge in Manhattan issued the warrants on the grounds that recent flights violated U.S. export controls imposed after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February. The U.S. Department of Commerce filed related administrative charges against Abramovich.
But the official said the warrants are likely to dissuade companies from helping to move the aircraft. U.S. authorities are seeking to pressure business leaders close to Russian President Vladimir Putin to get him to halt what Kremlin calls its “special military operation” in Ukraine.
A spokesperson for Abramovich did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Abramovich has denied having close ties to Putin.
Roman Abramovich
The Commerce Department said that the Gulfstream flew from Istanbul to Moscow on March 12, left the following day for Tel Aviv and flew from Istanbul to Moscow again on March 15. The Boeing flew from Dubai to Moscow on March 4, the department said.
Because the planes were U.S.-made, and the flights took place after export restrictions went into effect, Abramovich, a Russian national, would have needed a license from Commerce to fly them to Russia. No licenses were requested, but an administration official told reporters the department’s policy is to deny such requests.
The department may seek to fine Abramovich up to $328,121 per unlicensed flight, or nearly $1 million for the three flights, among other penalties.
What is his relationship to the Ukraine invasion?
Did he fund it? Did he give Putin tanks?
If anything, Abramovich has opposed Putin’s foreign policy. He knows Putin, insofar as anyone who is ultra-wealthy in Russia is going to know the political leadership.
But he’s also Jewish. If they’re doing this to other Jews, how do you think they’re going to treat you?
A Fiji court has ruled a Russian-owned superyacht be removed from the Pacific island nation by the United States because it was a waste of money for Fiji to maintain the vessel amid legal wrangling over its seizure.
The U.S. Justice Department’s Taskforce KleptoCapture has focused on seizing yachts and other luxury assets of Russian oligarchs in a bid to pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine.
The 106-metre (350-foot) Amadea arrived in Fiji on April 13, after an 18-day voyage from Mexico. It was seized by Fiji authorities after the country’s High Court granted a U.S. warrant last month that linked the yacht to sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov.
The FBI has said the $300 million luxury vessel had running costs of $25 million to $30 million per year, and the United States would pay to maintain the vessel after it was seized.
“The decision acknowledges Fiji’s commitment to respecting international mutual assistance requests and Fiji’s international obligations,” said Fiji’s Director of Public Prosecutions, Christopher Pryde in a statement.
He said the court agreed “issues concerning money laundering and ownership” need to be decided in the originating U.S. court.
“The Amadea has been handed over to U.S. authorities and will now leave Fiji,” he added.
The U.S. embassy in Suva did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Kerimov is even further from Putin, in terms of – in terms of what the hell are we even talking about? Personal friendship?
What does this have to do with the invasion of the Ukraine, which everyone in Russian politics – and the foreign analysts – say was a decision made unilaterally by Vladimir Putin?
Further: what is the evidence that this invasion was “illegal”? What international law did it violate?
The whole world is watching, and finding that if you get on the wrong side of the United States – this belligerent monster rampaging through the earth – they will violate all of their own “international norms” and commit crimes against you that had previously seemed unconscionable.
And don’t even kid yourself that these new rules aren’t going to apply to Westerners. Of course they are. All “bad people” are now subjected to having their property seized, without any form of due process, by the American Pirate Crime Empire.
