At the time it seemed significant that a super yacht belonging to Igor Sechin, the chief executive of Russia’s largest oil producer Rosneft, had been seized in France.  It was March 3, 2022, and unprecedented sanctions were being imposed on Russian oligarchs.  The news of the sanctions broke while Bill Browder, the American financier who has made it his life’s work to have the Russian individuals involved in the murder of his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky held to account, was talking to The Currency.  The optics of the uber-wealthy having their ships and foreign houses seized appeared gratifying as the luxury…

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