Lady Anastasia had to pay: The 48-meter yacht owned by Russian billionaire Alexander Mikheev sank in the port of Port Adriano on Mallorca last weekend.

The ship's mechanic Taras Ostapchuk, a Ukrainian, had opened the seacocks in the engine room.

"Why do I need another job when I already have no more land," he explained after his act.

Previously, he had seen films of rocket hits in Kyiv.

"My boss is a criminal who sells weapons that kill the Ukrainian people," the 55-year-old told the Civil Guard.

The ship owner Mikheev is CEO of the Russian state arms company Rosoboroexport.

Russia's oligarchs can no longer even rely on their staff.

Until recently courted all over the world, today they are driven.

President Joe Biden announced the formation of a strike force at the Justice Department on Wednesday.

"We're hunting you!

We join forces with our European allies to find and seize your yachts, your luxury homes and your private planes."

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi proposed an international registry to track them down.

France has formed a "task force" made up of customs, the money laundering agency Tracfin and the Directorate-General for Public Finances.

The British government wants to drain the swamp of money laundering in Great Britain with a bill.

The sanctions are intended to hit the billionaires where they are most sensitive: their wealth, which they often owe to Vladimir Putin.

Ever since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, their dirty money has been the talk of the town.

The oligarchs are considered part of the Putin system;

now they should pay.

The EU Commission has published who is targeted by the sanctions: 680 people on a long list, including all Duma deputies who voted for the recognition of the separation zones, as well as 26 people on a shorter list with oligarchs and some journalists who considered propagandists.

Enough attractive alternative locations

But not only the authorities are hot on the heels of the oligarchs.

Anger at Russia's elite is also manifested in the little man's revenge.

In the United States, 19-year-old college student Jack Sweeney used simple technology to track Elon Musk's private jet and published every flight movement on Twitter.

Now he tracks down the flights of Russian oligarchs' private jets - and around 250,000 people follow him on Twitter.

It is no different with the luxury yachts, which are often the pride of billionaires: a few clicks on the Internet are enough and you know, for example, that the last location report for the yacht “Dilbar” came from mobile phone billionaire Alisher Usmanov with her call sign ZGFO comes from the port of Hamburg.

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