China News Service, March 13. According to Euronet, citing EUN News Agency, on March 12, local time, the Press Office of the Italian Prime Minister’s Office stated that Italian police detained Russian billionaire Andrei Igorevich May. A superyacht in Ernichenko.

Melnichenko was added to the EU sanctions list a few days ago.

  According to reports, Italian police said that Melnichenko's 143-meter-long yacht SAILING YACHT A, priced at 530 million euros, was detained by police at the port of Trieste, in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of Italy. .

  Melnichenko owns large fertilizer producer Eurochemical Group and the world's largest integrated energy company SUEK Group (SUEK).

Melnichenko has resigned as a board member of both companies, the companies said in a statement.

  Melnichenko's spokesman, Alex Andreyev, said Melnichenko had no connection to the situation in Ukraine as a businessman and that he had no political background.

Andreev said there was no reason to put him on the EU sanctions list.

  Italian Economy and Finance Minister Daniel Franco said on the 12th that since last week, Italian police have seized villas and yachts worth more than 700 million euros from well-known Russians included in the EU sanctions list.

(Huang Xin)