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L’ex yacht di Briatore “Force Blue” è di nuovo in vendita

In passato era finito al centro della cronaca per un presunto caso di evasione fiscale. adesso il “force blue” appartenuto a flavio briatore è finito di nuovo sul mercato.

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Flavio Briatore’s Force Blue superyacht ends up at auction

• Gioacchino Ferrari
• January 11, 2021

Seized in 2010 for tax evasion, Briatore’s Force Blue superyacht will be auctioned in late January

, between the search for a new owner and the announcement of a final verdict that has been awaited for over a decade.

Actually, the legal issues related to Flavio Briatore ‘s superyacht , seized in 2010 off the coast of La Spezia, seemed to be resolved with the limitation on appeal. The boat, however, has remained in the care of the judicial guardian and will be put up for sale on January 27th , before the Supreme Court expresses itself in this regard: the hearing is set for February 12th.

The reasons why the Force Blue will be auctioned (the auction is authorized by the Appeal Court of Genoa) would be represented by the potential loss of the superyacht overall value and the management of maintenance costs, deemed too high by the keeper. A difficulty that would have worsened last year due to the lockdown, which inevitably interrupted the charter activities, however authorized on board the Force Blue since May 2010, when the Italian Financial Police seized the boat in the waters of La Spezia.

Flavio Briatore’s Force Blue superyacht ends up at auction: confiscation, restitution or compensation?

The boat, built by Royal Denship in 2002, is 62 meters long, has three decks and weighs 1,325 tons . It is owned by Briatore’s Autumn Sailing society and is one among the 100 largest superyachts in the world, as well as one among the most famous boats belonging to VIPs.

What is striking is the fact that the sale will take place two weeks before the final decision by the Supreme Court, which could return the pleasure boat to the Italian businessman or confirm the seizure. if the boat has already passed into the hands of the new owner, Briatore would only be entitled to a cash compensation . We’ll see. What is certain is that the long journey of the Force Blue is now coming to an end.

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Flavio Briatore Facts

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Modified & Updated: 01 Jun 2024

Reviewed by Jessica Corbett

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Flavio Briatore, a name synonymous with the world of Formula One and business, has lived a life full of ups and downs. From his early days in Italy to his rise in the world of motorsport and business, Briatore’s journey is nothing short of fascinating. Here are 27 intriguing facts about this Italian businessman.

Birth and Early Life

Flavio Briatore was born on 12 April 1950 in Verzuolo, Italy.

Initial Career

He began his career as a restaurant manager and insurance salesman in Italy.

Legal Troubles

In the 1980s, Briatore faced several fraud charges in Italy, leading to two prison sentences. However, these convictions were later nullified by an amnesty.

Benetton Franchises

While on the run, Briatore established several successful Benetton franchises in the Virgin Islands and the United States.

Formula One Entry

In 1990, Luciano Benetton promoted him to manage the Benetton Formula One racing team. This team later transformed into Renault F1 in 2002.

Ownership of QPR

From 2007 to 2011, Briatore was a part-owner and chairman of London’s Queens Park Rangers F.C.

Race Fixing Scandal

In 2009, Briatore had to resign from the ING Renault F1 team due to his involvement in race fixing during the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix .

Ban from FIA

Following an investigation by the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), Briatore was indefinitely banned from any events sanctioned by the FIA. However, this ban was later overturned by a French Tribunal de Grande Instance.

Early Struggles

Briatore faced challenges in his early life, including failing public school twice.

Entrepreneurial Ventures

He opened a restaurant named Tribüla, which unfortunately had to close due to excessive debt.

Move to Milan

In the 1970s, Briatore relocated to Milan and worked at the Italian stock exchange. It was during this period that he met Luciano Benetton, the founder of the Benetton clothing company.

Fugitive Status

To avoid imprisonment for his convictions, Briatore lived as a fugitive in Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands.

Benetton’s American Operations

When Benetton opened its first five stores in the U.S. in 1979, Briatore was appointed as the director of the group’s American operations.

Formula One Achievements

Under his leadership, the Benetton team saw significant success, with Michael Schumacher winning the World Drivers’ Championship in 1994 and 1995.

Talent Scout

Briatore is known for his ability to spot talent. He played a crucial role in the career of Fernando Alonso , securing him a race drive with Minardi in 2001.

In 2000, when Renault announced its plans to return to Formula One, Briatore was brought back as the managing director and team principal.

Criticism of Modern F1

Briatore has been vocal about his desire to see F1 provide better entertainment. He has often emphasized the importance of focusing on the entertainment aspect rather than just the technical side.

Business Ventures

Outside of Formula One, Briatore has ventured into various businesses, especially in the fashion industry.

Billionaire Nightclub

He created the Billionaire nightclub brand in 1998 and owns clubs in various locations, including Sardinia and Marbella .

Cipriani’s Restaurant

In 2004, Briatore opened Cipriani’s restaurant in Mayfair, London.

Yacht Ownership

Briatore is the beneficiary of Autumn Sailing Ltd, which purchased the super yacht Force Blue.

Relationship with Naomi Campbell

In 1998, Briatore got engaged to supermodel Naomi Campbell . Their relationship lasted until 2003.

Relationship with Heidi Klum

Briatore dated supermodel Heidi Klum in 2003, and she announced her pregnancy in December of that year.

Marriage to Elisabetta Gregoraci

Briatore married ‘Wonderbra’ model Elisabetta Gregoraci in 2008. The couple has a son.

Political Endeavors

In 2019, Briatore founded the political party Movimento del Fare.

COVID-19 Diagnosis

In August 2020, Briatore was hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19.

Personal Philosophy

Despite his success, Briatore believes in the importance of entertainment in any business. He once stated that F1 should be a sport of gladiators, not accountants.

Flavio Briatore’s life is a testament to resilience, ambition, and the pursuit of success. From his humble beginnings in Italy to his rise in the world of Formula One and business, Briatore’s journey is filled with lessons of perseverance, adaptability, and the importance of entertainment in business.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

When was flavio briatore born, what was briatore’s role in the benetton formula one team.

He was promoted by Luciano Benetton to manage the Benetton Formula One racing team in 1990.

Did Briatore face any legal troubles?

Yes, in the 1980s, Briatore was convicted on several fraud charges in Italy.

What businesses does Briatore own outside of Formula One?

Briatore has ventured into various businesses, especially in the fashion industry, including the Billionaire nightclub brand and Cipriani’s restaurant in London.

Who are some of the famous personalities Briatore has been associated with in his personal life?

Briatore has been in relationships with supermodels Naomi Campbell and Heidi Klum. He is also married to ‘Wonderbra’ model Elisabetta Gregoraci.

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Briatore's explorer yacht Force Blue still for charter, discount offered

Following the news that  Flavio Briatore is appealing a tax fraud conviction  over use of 63.22 metre  Force Blue ,  Fraser Yachts  has clarified the situation for current and forthcoming charter enquiries and bookings.

" Force Blue  was originally seized on 20 May 2010 and legal proceedings are ongoing and have not yet come to a final conclusion," a spokesman for Fraser Yachts told  Boat International .  " Force Blue  has been authorised by the court to carry out charter activities during this period and charters are continuing without interference and very successfully."

Force Blue  is now available for charter in the West Med from August 31 with a reduced rate of €195,000 per week, down from the peak price of €245,000 per week.

Delivered by the Royal Denship yard in 2002 and refitted in 2009,  Force Blue  enjoys a reputation as a multi-faceted charter yacht.

Although classed as an explorer yacht, she has a palatial interior by Celeste dell’Anna giving her all the amenities of a five star hotel. Twelve guests can take their ease in six generous cabins consisting of a master suite on the main deck with a spa pool while below lie a VIP suite, three doubles and a twin convertible to a double, all with entertainment centres and full en suite bathroom facilities.

An experienced crew of 19 include a masseuse/beautician and guests are encouraged to take full advantage of the extensive on board spa facilities including a steam shower, Hammam, mud bath, sauna, Jacuzzi, hydro massage and a massage room. This yacht for charter also features a fully equipped gymnasium, a cinema and an elevator between decks.

The vast deck spaces aboard Force Blue come into their own during static charters at Mediterranean events such as the Monaco Grand Prix and Cannes Film Festival where she can host receptions for up to 350 guests at a time. In addition, the upper aft deck can offer al fresco dining for up to 60 guests. After dinner, this deck can be transformed into a nightclub with a professional DJ station, neon strobe lights and a full sound system.

Force Blue is available for charter through Fraser Yachts.

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Flavio Briatore update after heart operation

After the detection of a benign tumour, the Italian and Monegasque resident Flavio Briatore underwent emergency heart surgery at the age of 73. He shared an update on his Instagram account.

Back home soon after the operation, he took the opportunity to send his subscribers a message about prevention.  “I would really like to thank the whole San Raffaele team, they were great, I must thank Elisabetta Gregoraci who stayed by my side the whole time, and my son who came from Monaco to see me at the hospital in Milan. So everyone was at my side, my friends and a many others. But the main thing is prevention, to get a check-up every year. I had one two years ago and the benign tumour wasn’t there then, but this time there it was. We need to look after ourselves, prevention is fundamental. I’m telling you, I spent ten days in the hospital and here I am. Tomorrow I’ll be back at it.”

“Back at it” trackside at the Grand Prix circuits, since he is particularly close to the Spanish driver Fernando Alonso, who must decide soon if he will continue to take part in the Championship in 2025, and if so, with which team.

Luxury yachts and other myths: How Republican lawmakers echo Russian propaganda

Two senior Republican lawmakers, the chairs of the House Intelligence and Foreign Affairs committees, say their colleagues are echoing Russian state propaganda against Ukraine.

Researchers who study disinformation say Reps. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, and Michael McCaul, R-Texas, are merely acknowledging what has been clear for some time: Russian propaganda aimed at undermining U.S. and European support for Ukraine has steadily seeped into America’s political conversation over the past decade, taking on a life of its own.

McCaul, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told Puck News he thinks “Russian propaganda has made its way into the United States, unfortunately, and it’s infected a good chunk of my party’s base.”

Turner, chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, told CNN that anti-Ukraine messages from Russia are “being uttered on the House floor.”

For the past decade, since Russia’s first military incursion into Ukraine in 2014, Moscow has spread propaganda and disinformation in a bid to undercut U.S. and European military support for Ukraine, according to U.S. and Western officials.

Some of the arguments, distortions and falsehoods spread by Russia have taken root, mostly among right-wing pro-Trump outlets and Republican politicians, researchers say, including that Ukraine’s government is too corrupt to benefit from Western aid and that the Biden family has alleged corrupt ties to Ukraine.

Russia, in keeping with traditional propaganda techniques, seeks to make its case and tarnish Ukraine through a mixture of outright falsehoods, half-truths, inferences or simply amplifying and promoting arguments already being made by American or European commentators and politicians, researchers say.

The propaganda is sometimes spread covertly, through fake online accounts, or openly by Russian officials and state media. As a result, the origin of some allegations or criticisms is often opaque, especially when a certain accusation or perception has gained wide acceptance, leaving no clear fingerprints.

Early in the war, a false story boosted by Russian propaganda — that the U.S. had helped Ukraine build biological weapons labs — gained traction on right-wing social media and was touted by then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

Russia also is conducting a parallel propaganda campaign in Europe. Belgium’s prime minister said Thursday that his government is investigating alleged Russian bribes to members of the European Parliament as part of Moscow’s campaign to undermine support for Ukraine. Czech law enforcement officials last month alleged that a former pro-Russian member of Ukraine’s parliament, Viktor Medvedchuk, was behind a Prague-based Russian propaganda network designed to promote opposition to aiding Ukraine.

Here are some examples of Republican lawmakers using arguments often promoted by Russian propaganda:

Buying yachts

When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with members of Congress behind closed doors in December to appeal for more U.S. help for his country’s troops, some lawmakers raised questions about Ukraine allegedly buying yachts with American aid money.

Zelenskyy made clear that was not the case, according to Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, a strong supporter of arming Ukraine. “I think the notion of corruption came up because some have said we can’t do it, because people will buy yachts with the money,” Tillis told CNN. “[Zelenskyy] disabused people of those notions.”

Where did the yacht rumor come from?

Pro-Russian actors and websites promoted a narrative alleging Zelenskyy bought two superyachts with U.S. aid dollars. One Russia-based propaganda site, DC Weekly , published a story last November that included photos of two luxury yachts, called Lucky Me and My Legacy , which it alleged were bought for $75 million.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., a vocal opponent of military aid to Ukraine, in November retweeted a post about the alleged yacht purchase from the Strategic Culture Foundation, a Russian-based propaganda outlet directed by Russia’s intelligence services, according to the Treasury Department. The U.S. has imposed sanctions on the organization, accusing it of spreading disinformation and interfering in U.S. elections.

Another outspoken critic of aid to Ukraine, Republican Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, also made a similar claim.

In a December interview with former President Donald Trump’s White House adviser Steve Bannon, Vance claimed that members of Congress wanted to cut Social Security benefits to provide more aid to Ukraine, and that money would allegedly be used for Zelenskyy’s ministers to “buy a bigger yacht.”

“There are people who would cut Social Security, throw our grandparents into poverty. Why? So that one of Zelenskyy’s ministers can buy a bigger yacht?” Vance said. “Kiss my ass, Steve. It’s not happening.”

The tale of Zelenskyy’s luxury yacht, however, turned out to be totally false . The yachts cited in the DC Weekly article remain up for sale , the owners told The Associated Press.

Two academics at Clemson University, disinformation researchers Darren Linvill and Patrick Warren, found that DC Weekly ran numerous stories copied from other sites that were rewritten by artificial intelligence engines. The articles had bylines with fake names along with headshots copied from other online sites. DC Weekly appeared to be a Russian effort to launder false information through a seemingly legitimate news site as part of an attempt to undermine U.S. support for Ukraine, according to the researchers .

Asked by reporters about Vance’s comments, Tillis said: “I think it’s bullshit. ...If you’re talking about giving money to Ukrainian ministers — total and unmitigated bullshit.”

Greene’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

Vance’s spokesperson said the senator was making a rhetorical point about how he opposed sending U.S. assistance to what he sees as a corrupt country, but was not asserting the yacht stories online were accurate.

Vance’s office referred NBC News to an earlier response to the BBC on the same topic:

“For years, everyone in the West recognized that Ukraine was one of the most corrupt countries in the world. Somehow everyone forgot that just as we started sending them billions of dollars in foreign aid.”

Enabling ‘corruption’

Russian state media for years has painted Ukraine as deeply corrupt, and has argued that the U.S. and its allies are wasting money and military hardware by assisting such an allegedly corrupt government.

“This is absolutely a line that they have pushed, and then once it appears in the Western ecosystem, other [Russian] media picks it up and it gets recycled back,” said Bret Schafer, a senior fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy.

This line of argument has gained traction partly because Ukraine does face a genuine corruption problem.

Russia’s effort to focus attention on corruption in Ukraine reflects a long-established propaganda method of using facts or partial truths to anchor a broader assertion or accusation, sometimes making a leap in logic, Schafer and other researchers said. Russia’s message amounts to: Ukraine is corrupt, therefore U.S. and Western aid will be stolen and wasted.

Schafer said it was ironic for Russia, a country mired in corruption and kleptocracy, to be leveling accusations about corruption.

Republican Rep. Mary Miller has said she strongly opposes more assistance for Ukraine because it amounts to sending cash to “corrupt oligarchs.”

“With Zelensky coming to DC this week to ask for more money, I will continue to vote AGAINST sending your tax $$ to corrupt oligarchs in Ukraine for a proxy war that could have ended in ‘22,” Miller wrote in a post on X in December.

The Illinois lawmaker also echoed another assertion that often appears in Russian media, that the Biden administration allegedly undermined efforts by Russia to avoid war with Ukraine.

 “A peace deal was on the table that [Ukraine] and [Russia] were both ready to sign, but Biden said NO,” she wrote.

There was in fact no proposed peace agreement that Russia and Ukraine were prepared to sign before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, according to U.S. and European officials. As Russian troops massed on the border of Ukraine, Western governments urged Russia not to invade and warned there would be economic and diplomatic consequences.

Reuters has reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected a possible deal to avert a war that had been discussed with Kyiv by Russia’s envoy to Ukraine. The Kremlin said the report was inaccurate and has said Russia tried for years to arrive at an understanding with Ukraine.

As for corruption in Ukraine, Zelenskyy has vowed to tackle the problem, sacking senior officials in some recent cases. But some civil society groups have criticized his approach and Ukrainians say corruption is the country’s second-most serious problem, after the Russian invasion, according to a poll conducted last year.

In an annual survey, Transparency International said Ukraine made progress toward addressing the issue and now ranks 104th out of 180 countries on its Corruption Perceptions Index , climbing 12 places up from its previous ranking.

Ukraine is not alone among countries that receive U.S. and other foreign aid but struggle with corruption. Supporters of assisting Ukraine argue it would undermine America’s influence in the world and its humanitarian efforts if Washington withheld foreign aid from every country where there were reports of corruption.

Miller’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

The Biden family and Ukraine

Republicans have repeatedly alleged that President Joe Biden and his son Hunter have corrupt ties to Ukraine, and that they sought $5 million in bribes from the Ukrainian energy company Burisma to protect the firm from an investigation by Ukraine’s prosecutor general.

There is no credible evidence for the allegations. A key source for the accusations against the Bidens is a former FBI informant, Alexander Smirnov, who was arrested in February on federal charges of fabricating the bribery claims. Smirnov says he was fed information by Russian intelligence.

Republicans had heavily promoted Smirnov’s allegations against the Bidens, seeing them as crucial to a planned impeachment effort against the president that has since fizzled .

“In my estimation, that is probably the clearest example of Russian propaganda working its way into the American political system,” said Emerson Brooking, a resident senior fellow at the Digital Forensic Research Lab of the Atlantic Council.

GOP Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona cited the false bribery allegations in expressing his opposition to providing assistance to Ukraine.

“In exchange for … bribe money from Ukraine, Joe Biden has dished out over $100 billion in taxpayer money to fund the war in Ukraine. I will not assist this corruption by sending more money to the authoritarian Ukrainian regime,” Gosar said in a statement in October.

Gosar’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

Dan De Luce is a reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit. 

Syedah Asghar is a Capitol Hill researcher for NBC News and is based in Washington, D.C.

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