Its value is estimated at 120 million euros. Amore Vero (True Love), Igor Setchine’s yacht was seized overnight from Wednesday to Thursday in La Ciotat (Bouches-du-Rhône) by French customs as part of sanctions against Russia, the ministry announced. economy.
Sechin is a former Russian Deputy Prime Minister in the government of Vladimir Putin between 2008 and 2012. He is now the main shareholder of Rosneft, in whose name the yacht was registered, a Russian state company specializing in the extraction , processing and distribution of oil. His yacht had arrived at a shipyard in La Ciotat on January 3 to carry out work there.
Customs arrived while it was setting off urgently, without having carried out all the scheduled maintenance, the ministry said in its press release.