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🚨NEW 🚨 We're delighted to welcome on board the brilliant @alexzfinley, former CIA officer & current @allthecitizens yacht watcher, based in Barcelona

Alex will tell the story of the oligarchs, corruption (and how we enable it), one yacht at a time ⛵️

#YachtWatch #YachtTok
@alexzfinley A court in Fiji has paused the execution of a US warrant to seize a $300m #yacht Washington says is owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov

aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/9/…
🚨 Could this be Putin's yacht????

cbsnews.com/news/scheheraz…
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With ECLIPSE transiting Gibraltar I'm getting tons of messages regarding her being seized while at sea.
Well, its called piracy and its a crime as per UNCLOS (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea) or more generally, International Law.
Fast thread 🧵
Vessels in international waters cannot be attacked, inspected, seized etc. Same applies to vessels transiting straits (as Gibraltar), in which case even if technically inside the "territorial waters" of a country, they are protected by UNCLOS.
Even US can't stop sanctions violating Iranian tankers at sea. And while Gibraltar was the theatre of the seizing of GRACE 1 (#Iran) years ago, that happened because the tanker was stopping to "fill up" in the British waters (so technically it wasn't transiting)
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Why does #SWIFTban not support #Ukraine the way we want it to? #SWIFT is a messaging system. Would you ever send a friend a #WhatsApp before transferring money so she can make rent? That's what banks do to maintain balance sheets. Lots of money sloshing around out there.🧵
I don't argue against a #SWIFTban. The problem is, it's become a political symbol of #sanctions resolve when there are much more impactful things we can do to damage Russia. Full blocking sanctions on banks, SOEs and then secondary sanctions. Do that if you want to hit hard.
Taking #Russia off SWIFT will make it harder to send that #WhatsApp message, but there are alternatives, including a fax machine. We only took #Iran off of SWIFT after we embargoed the country, as a "nice to have." Economic warfare has a different tempo than real warfare. 👇
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New version of my #Russia oligarchs #yacht map, with more vessels and more oligarchs, showing the current or last known position of 28 vessels which are possible western sanctions targets.

#Ukraine #SanctionRussiaNow #RussiaUkraine
Tracking of MY SOLARIS, Roman Abramovich yacht in Barcelona here :
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