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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lamiat Sabin

Captain of £38m superyacht detained in London insists government ‘got the wrong guy’

Simon Dawson / No10 Downing Street

The captain of a superyacht detained amid UK government allegations that the owner has links to Russia has insisted that his boss is innocent and that ministers “got the wrong guy”.

The £38m vessel has been unable to leave a marina in Canary Wharf, east London, since March – about a month after Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine.

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