Swiss authorities have arrested a luxury apartment in the mountains owned by Russian banker Pyotr Aven, who is close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the British newspaper Guardian reported.
The Avene three-bedroom apartment is located on the fifth floor of a luxury apartment complex in a golf resort on the scenic Bern Mountains, according to the Canton Real Estate Office in Bern.
Switzerland, which has long been neutral in international affairs, is a major trading center for Russian goods. Swiss banks have deposited a wealth of Russian citizens worth up to $ 213 billion.
The Italian authorities last week arrested a building complex owned by Aven on the island of Sardinia.
Avens was on the European Union’s (EU) sanctions list after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday called on Switzerland to confiscate the assets of people helping Russia fight war against Ukraine. Poland supported the call on Monday.
Meanwhile, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich’s Solaris yacht arrived in the port of Bodrum in Turkey on Monday to escape European sanctions, Turkish media reported.
The 139-meter-long and 26-meter-wide yacht arrived from the Montenegrin port city of Tivat. It was not known if Abramovich himself was on the yacht.
Abramovich, who has been sanctioned by the European Union and Britain in recent weeks for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has sent a yacht to Turkey to escape its arrest in Europe.
As the yacht approached Bodrum, a group of 11 people arrived by boat and began blocking the yacht’s mooring. The Turkish coastguard declared the blockade illegal and forced it to end.
It later became known that the mooring of the yacht was blocked by a Ukrainian children’s and youth sailing team from Odessa.
Albert Kabakov, director of the Black Sea Yacht Club of Ukraine, said that among the blockers of the yacht were children aged 10 to 18 who had arrived in Turkey for the competition.
“Ukrainska pravda” previously reported that another Abramovich yacht “Eclipse” was going to Turkey, which left the Caribbean more than two weeks ago in search of safe jurisdiction from sanctions.
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