It concerns the villa Rocky Ram in Porto Cervo, on the Costa Smeralda in northeastern Sardinia, according to a government official.
The value of the building is more than 100 million euros. The villa is linked to Nikita Mazepin, a 23-year-old driver who was turned away by the American F1 racing stable Haas after the invasion, and to his father Dimitri Mazepin, a Russian chemical billionaire.
“The dream I’ve been working on for 18 years is over,” Mazepin said just under a month ago, after his F1 seat was taken away. The former F1 driver refuses to speak out about the war. “I’m not going to give my personal opinion on the conflict,” he said recently. “Then I would take a huge risk, because you can never please everyone if you do that. That is why I will never speak publicly on the matter.”
Dimitri and Nikita Mazepin are blacklisted by the European Union, as are hundreds of Russian oligarchs and MPs. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Italy has blocked hundreds of millions of euros worth of real estate, especially villas and yachts linked to the Russian oligarchs.