{"id":44126,"date":"2022-05-03T20:20:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T11:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/03\/fiji-court-rules-us-can-seize-yacht-said-to-belong-to-russian-oligarch"},"modified":"2022-05-03T20:20:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T11:20:53","slug":"fiji-court-rules-us-can-seize-yacht-said-to-belong-to-russian-oligarch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44126","title":{"rendered":"Fiji court rules US can seize yacht said to belong to Russian oligarch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vessel docked in port of Lautoka is believed to be owned by Suleiman Kerimov, who is facing sanctions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/may\/03\/russia-ukraine-war-moscow-plans-to-annex-donetsk-and-luhansk-us-says-britain-pledges-another-300m-in-military-aid-live#maincontent\">Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fiji\u2019s high court has ruled that the US government can seize a superyacht believed to be owned by a Russian oligarch who faces sanctions from the US and the EU, which is docked in the Fijian port of Lautoka.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Deepthi Amaratunga <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/19\/us-seeks-to-seize-superyacht-in-fiji-believed-to-be-owned-by-russian-oligarch\">granted the request from Fijian authorities<\/a> to register and enforce US warrants to seize the Amadea, which has been docked in Lautoka since 13 April and which is believed to belong to Suleiman Kerimov, who is considered a close ally of Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/03\/fiji-court-rules-us-can-seize-yacht-said-to-belong-to-russian-oligarch\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vessel docked in port of Lautoka is believed to be owned by Suleiman Kerimov, who is facing sanctionsRussia-Ukraine war: latest updatesFiji\u2019s high court has ruled that the US government can seize a superyacht believed to be owned by a Russian oligarch &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3047,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,221,436,874,419,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-europe","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44127,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44126\/revisions\/44127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}