Engineer Arrested for Attempting to Sink Tycoons Yacht
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If you\\u2019ve worked your way into becoming one of the top arms dealers in Russia, it\\u2019s probably fair to say you\\u2019ve made your share of enemies over the years.
But it\\u2019s not always the ones you expect that you have to watch out for.
Two days after Russian forces launch an invasion of Ukraine, the Lady Anastasia, a 450-foot superyacht reportedly owned by Alexander Mikheev, was docked at a marina on the Spanish resort island of Mallorca.\\xa0
Mikheev is the head of Rosoboronexport, the military export branch of Russia\\u2019s state-owned defense conglomerate, and it turns out that some of the workers on the vessel just happened to be Ukrainian.
When one of them, 55-year-old Taras Ostapchuk, saw footage of Russian forces bombing his native country, he realized that his boss could have supplied those weapons \\u2014 and decided to take measures into his own hands.
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