Martin, where EU sanctions can be enforced. "Le Grand Bleu," owned by Russian oil titan Eugene Shvidler, is also anchored off the island of St. Barts to Philipsburg, the capital of Sint Maarten - the Dutch side of the Caribbean island Saint Martin. Among those assets is a super-yacht named "Eclipse" that is the third largest pleasure vessel in the world, measuring more than 540 feet long and 72 feet wide, according to Marine Vessel Traffic, a website that tracks the location of ships and other vessels, including privately owned yachts. Putin ally Roman Abramovich, who made his fortune in the energy business, is not currently on any government sanction lists, but is making moves to unload valuable assets, including Chelsea Football Club. The "Graceful," which allegedly belongs to Russian President Vladimir Putin, is seen moored at the port of Sochi, Russia, in July 2015. The super-yacht "Graceful," believed to be owned by Vladimir Putin himself, left Germany two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine and recently docked in Kaliningrad, near Russia's nuclear weapons operations, data form MarineTraffic, a maritime tracking website, shows. More than a dozen Russian billionaires are under sanction by the U.S., European Union and the United Kingdom, and some are trying to dodge restrictions by moving assets that are mobile - including mega-yachts - into territories where sanctions don't apply and where their property cannot be seized or their assets frozen. "We are coming for your ill-begotten gains." "We are joining with our European allies to find and seize your yachts, your luxury apartments, your private jets," Mr. Biden described in his State of the Union address on Tuesday as "the crimes of Russian oligarchs." A new federal task force, dubbed "KleptoCapture," will take aim at what Mr.
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