Yachts linked to six Russian billionaires, plus Vladimir Putin, gather off Turkey’s coast

Six yachts belonging to Russian billionaires have gathered off the Turkish resort city of Bodrum, Russian investigative outlet Verstka reports. The collection includes vessels linked to Roman Abramovich, Oleg Deripaska, and other prominent Russian business figures. Also anchored in the area is the Victoria, a seventy-one-meter yacht registered to a company owned by Gennady Timchenko, a close Putin associate who reportedly uses the vessel. The yacht had sailed from the Russian port city of Sochi toward Bodrum in late June.

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