#Bestof2022: What has happened to the Oligarch Fleet? #Ukraine: Seizing yachts; & What is to be done? Richard A Epstein, @RichardAEpstein, @HooverInst, Tisch Professor of Law NYU Bedford Senior Fellow; Hoover Institution; senior lecturer, University of C
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🗓️ 19 May 2023
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#Bestof2022: What has happened to the Oligarch Fleet? #Ukraine: Seizing yachts; & What is to be done? Richard A Epstein, @RichardAEpstein, @HooverInst, Tisch Professor of Law NYU Bedford Senior Fellow; Hoover Institution; senior lecturer, University of Chicago Law School.
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| 0:37.0 | I'm John Batcher with Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution who does me the |
| 0:41.4 | favor to comment on a phenomenon that we witness during these days of Ukraine crisis, the |
| 0:47.2 | seizure of fantasy yachts across the European plane. |
| 0:52.5 | I have in front of me the named yachts, odd names, United Kingdom detained the yacht belonging |
| 0:59.0 | to an unnamed Russian businessman or authorities in Gibraltar detained yacht linked to a |
| 1:04.6 | Russian billionaire Dmitry Pompionsky or Spanish authorities have detained a super yacht named |
| 1:10.8 | Crescent in the port of Taragonia. |
| 1:12.9 | It goes on Italian authorities, French authorities, seizing yachts and connection with oligarchs |
| 1:20.4 | who are connected to Vladimir Putin who is said to be responsible for the illegal conduct |
| 1:26.2 | of the Russian military in Ukraine. |
| 1:29.6 | However, the question I put to the professor and he's very kind to come forward on this |
| 1:34.8 | is these seizures, it strikes me that these are actions of NATO. |
| 1:40.8 | And if that's true, the US is part of NATO. |
| 1:44.0 | Does the US have power as we're witnessing or European allies to seize yachts in a marina |
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