(superyachttimes) Italy and superyachts seem to mix less well than oil from a
leaking BP platform and water at the moment. Like the oil spill off the
Florida coast, the recent reported activities of the Guardia di Finanza
in seizing super yacht Force Blue on the Italian Riviera –
using, it is reported, armed police and gunboats – seems to be wholly
unexpected and shocking. But in the present feverish financial climate,
powerful local prosecutors in Italy are flexing their muscles at
perceived tax evasion, real or imagined, aided by a possible lack of
understanding of the finer points of EU and international law that is
not helping matters. The owner and his colleagues are entitled to be
presumed to be innocent of any wrongdoing.
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(superyachttimes) Italy and superyachts seem to mix less well than oil from a
leaking BP platform and water at the moment. Like the oil spill off the
Florida coast, the recent reported activities of the Guardia di Finanza
in seizing super yacht Force Blue on the Italian Riviera –
using, it is reported, armed police and gunboats – seems to be wholly
unexpected and shocking. But in the present feverish financial climate,
powerful local prosecutors in Italy are flexing their muscles at
perceived tax evasion, real or imagined, aided by a possible lack of
understanding of the finer points of EU and international law that is
not helping matters. The owner and his colleagues are entitled to be
presumed to be innocent of any wrongdoing. READ MORE 