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The US government sent a request for a private seizure a jet that they say belongs to Russian billionaire Yevgeny Prigozhin. Berlin refused, according to the German newspaper Die Zeit.
According to the daily, American diplomats handed over the aircraft documentation to the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the end of 2021. 2020 in maintenance. It is registered to a fictitious company from the San Marino Club Group.
The German government refused to seize the plane due to opaque ownership schemes. At the same time, the German side decided to start customs control, until the aircraft owner will not be able to use it.
Prigožin himself told the newspaper that he did not own the plane and was “apologized for the real owner” because they want to take the plane away from him and assign it.