On 23 October, the US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit in a federal court in New York to confiscate the $300 million Amadea yacht, the beneficial owner of which is believed to be the sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov

The peculiarity of the lawsuit is that the defendant in this case is the Amadea yacht itself.

This is a civil forfeiture action against the property. The idea is that the property is a so-called ‘real defendant’, and any person who claims an interest in it is a claimant. Thus, everyone who has an interest in the property is brought together in one case.

The advantage of this method of confiscation is that it allows for the recovery of property from criminals located outside the United States, without the need for a criminal conviction against the owner.

Read more about civil forfeiture, the lawsuit against the yacht, and how it can serve to rebuild Ukraine at the expense of the aggressor state and its accomplices in the article by Tetyana Khutor, Andriy Klymosiuk, Taras Ryabchenko, and Bohdan Karnaukh for "Економічна правда"