{"id":5611,"date":"2010-05-21T16:55:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T20:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5611"},"modified":"2010-05-21T16:55:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T20:55:20","slug":"italian-police-seize-briatores-yacht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/f1-general\/italian-police-seize-briatores-yacht\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian police seize Briatore&#8217;s yacht"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Italian police have seized Flavio Briatore&#8217;s yacht.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->A week after the banned former Renault boss hosted Bernie Ecclestone on the 60-metre Force Blue on the Monaco harbour, police boarded it on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>They had followed the yacht with high speed boats to the port of La Spezia, near the northern city of Genoa, with the 60-year-old Italian, his wife Elisabetta and new son Falco all on board.<\/p>\n<p>Local prosecutor Walter Cotugno ordered the boat be impounded on the suspicion it is improperly registered as a charter.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators suspect Briatore has registered it in the Cayman Islands, with a hire price of 275,000 euros a week, in order to obtain a tax break and to avoid paying sales tax when anchoring in European harbours.<\/p>\n<p>They suspect the yacht is not chartered at all and in fact is used only by Briatore&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian police have seized Flavio Briatore&#8217;s yacht.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[53],"tags":[59,5262,252,1678],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5612,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611\/revisions\/5612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}