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Code names, "the quickest" jet skis and a "straw man": Inside the FBI's seizure of a Russian superyacht
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American officials had not yet been cleared to take the Russian-owned superyacht Amadea from Fiji when agents from the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service and the Diplomatic Security Service boarded it earlier this month. Documents obtained by CBS News offer new details on the FBI's investigation into the yacht, as well as the moments after authorities boarded the Amadea.
"They want to take 20 crew and sail east!" the ship's captain, Michael Zerr, texted lawyer Feizal Haniff on WhatsApp on Thursday, May 5.
The day before the seizure, a Fijian prosecutor told a judge "the boat will most likely be moved sometime this weekend," after another hearing scheduled for Friday, May 6. However, officials boarded the Amadea a day early.
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