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France upholds freeze on sale of Saddam super-yacht
0 Comments | AFP, March, 2008
NICE, France (AFP) — A French court refused Wednesday to lift a freeze on the sale of a super-yacht built for former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, that was impounded on the Riviera in a tug-of-war over its ownership.
Docked among the millionaires' yachts in a harbour near Nice since November, the 82-metre (270-feet) Ocean Breeze, built in Denmark in 1981, started life as the Qadissiyat Saddam but was never actually delivered to Iraq.
The Cayman island-based firm Sudeley Limited, part-owned by King Abdullah of Jordan, says it is now the legal owner of the 28-passenger floating palace, equipped with swimming pools, a mosque, a missile-launcher and mini-submarine.
London broker Nigel Burgess, acting on Sudeley's behalf, put the yacht up for sale last year for...
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