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UK seizes first Russian

superyacht in British watersa

THE UK has seized its first su- country’s invasion of Ukraine.
peryacht in British waters as part The 58.5m (192ft) Phi was first
of sanctions against Russia. identified as being potentially Rus-
The £38m yacht, named Phi, is sian-owned on 13 March but its
owned by an unnamed Russian ownership is “deliberately well hid-
businessman. den”, the government said.
Transport Secretary Grant It added that the company the
Shapps said the individual was not ship is registered to is based in the
currently sanctioned but had “close Caribbean islands of St Kitts and “The ship won’t be going any-
connections” to Russian President Nevis but it carried Maltese flags where for the time being,” he said.
Vladimir Putin. to hide its origins. “People who have benefitted from
Twenty fines to be sanctions against Russian individ- said the move was “a clear and stark from sailing around London and
Transport secretary Mr Shapps [Mr Putin’s] regime cannot benefit
The UK has introduced a raft of
the UK in ships like this.”
uals and businesses following the warning to Putin and his cronies”.
issued over No 10 Jamie Wallis MP comes out as

lockdown parties trans and speaks of rape ordeal

TWENTY fines will be issued breached coronavirus lockdown AN MP has tweeted about being things have taken a tumble. I am did so because I was terrified,” the
as part of the police inquiry into rules, including at least three at- diagnosed with gender dysphoria, not ok,” the MP wrote. MP wrote.
Downing Street parties that tended by Boris Johnson. being a victim of rape and black- The MP is the first to come out “I have PTSD (post traumatic
broke Covid rules. As part of their inquiries, they mail, and fleeing the scene of a car as transgender, and has not yet
The Met police will not be say- have sent out over 100 question- crash. stated preferred pronouns. stress disorder) and I honestly
ing who is fined or which events naires to ask about people’s par- “I am trans, or to be more accu- Jamie Wallis was arrested last have no idea what I was doing ex-
the fixed penalty notices relate ticipation in the events. rate, I want to be,” Conservative year on suspicion of driving while cept I was overcome by an over-
to. Reports of gatherings in Down- MP Jamie Wallis said. unfit following an incident where whelming sense of fear.
However, Downing Street has ing Street and Whitehall during The Bridgend Tory alleged a a car hit a lamppost at Church “I am sorry that it appears I ‘ran
said before that it would confirm the lockdown prompted public man sent pictures to the poli- Road in LXlanblethian, Vale of away’ but this isn’t how it hap-
if the prime minister was facing anger and several Conservative tician’s family and demanded Glamorgan. pened in the moment.”
a fine. MPs called for the prime minister £50,000. The MP was later raped “When I crashed my car on the South Wales Police said the
Fixed penalty notices are a to resign. in a separate incident. “Since then 28th November I fled the scene. I matter is still under investigation.
sanction for breaking the law, and However, since the outbreak of
mean a fine, which needs to be the war in Ukraine, some have
paid within 28 days, or contested. withdrawn their demand. MPs vote to back publication of Lord
If someone chooses to contest Others have said they are with-
the fine, the police will then re- holding judgement until the po-
view the case and decide whether lice conclude their investigation, Lebedev peerage security advice
to withdraw the fine or take the and an internal inquiry is pub-
matter to court. lished. THE government will have to sian-born media mogul a peer- cision to grant Lord Lebedev a
The police said they were at- Mr Johnson had previously in- publish confidential informa- age. seat in the UK Parliament.
tempting to progress the in- sisted that “guidelines were fol- tion on how Evgeny Lebedev got The government argued Lord Lebedev, the son of a for-
vestigation, with a “significant lowed at all times”. a seat in the Lords, after a Par- against making the security ad- mer KGB agent, owns the Inde-
amount” of material still to be as- He later apologised for attend- liamentary move from Labour vice public, accusing the opposi- pendent and London Evening
sessed and that more fines could ing a drinks party in the Downing which pass unopposed. tion of being anti-Russian. Standard newspaper. He became
come in the future. Street garden in May 2020, but Boris Johnson has denied The government now has un- a non-party, crossbench peer in
The police have been investi- insisted that he believed it was a overruling security service til 28 April to release the docu- July 2020, after being nominat-
gating 12 events that may have work event. concerns about giving the Rus- ments, which relate to the de- ed by Mr Johnson.

Turkey: Most progress to date made in peace talks

NAZANIN Turkey has now re- iterating that the war must end as agency Tass.Russian billionaire
sponded to the peace talks it has soon as possible. Roman Abramovich has been pic-
been hosting between Ukraine He said “more difficult issues” tured talking to Turkish President
and Russia in Istanbul on Tuesday were expected to be discussed be- Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is me-
29 March. The country’s Foreign tween Ukrainian and Russian for- diating in the talks in Istanbul.
Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said eign ministers in the future. Reports surfaced hours earlier
the talks the first face-to-face Ukraine has said it would adopt that Abramovich and two Ukraini-
meeting between the two sides in neutral status one of Russia’s key an negotiators had shown poison-
more than two weeks had seen demands - in return for security ing symptoms after talks in early
the most significant progress since guarantees, its negotiators have March according to the New York
discussions between the two sides said.While Russia’s deputy de- Times, which has been dismissed
began. Cavusoglu said Turkey wel- fence minister Alexander Fomin by Russian officials. Mr Abramov-
comed the two countries reaching says Russia will “radically reduce” ich is known to have spent weeks
compromise and a common un- military activity outside Kyiv and in a mediation role, flying between
derstanding on certain issues, re- Chernihiv according to the news Moscow and Kyiv.