ROME (Reuters) – Italy has seized properties value some 105 million euros ($114.45 million) owned by Russian former Formula One driver Nikita Dmitrievich Mazepin and his oligarch father, two police sources advised Reuters on Monday.
The operation focused a villa – referred to as Rocky Ram – positioned within the north of the island of Sardinia. It is a part of broader efforts aimed toward penalising rich Russians linked to President Vladimir Putin after the Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine by Moscow.
There was no rapid remark from Mazepin’s PR supervisor.
Mazepin – who was fired in March by U.S.-owned F1 staff Haas – has been included in an EU sanctions listing alongside along with his father, Dmitry, who the European Union’s official journal described as a member of president Vladimir Putin’s closest circle.
Over the final weeks, Italian police have sequestered villas and yachts value over 900 million euros from rich Russians who have been positioned on a European Union sanctions lists following the Ukraine battle.
The most dear asset seized to this point is a superyacht owned by billionaire Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko, value round 530 million euros, which was impounded within the northern port of Trieste.
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(Reporting by Emilio Parodi; writing by Angelo Amante; Editing by Bernadette Baum)
