Alikhanov urged Russian billionaires to moor yachts in the Baltic

According to Alikhanov, when someone is "taken away from a yacht for $ 700 million," his "heart bleeds." With this money in the Kaliningrad region it is possible to build, break and rebuild all the planned port projects,

Russian billionaires who fell under the sanctions could moor yachts in Russia, on the Baltic or Black Sea, Anton Alikhanov, the governor of the Kaliningrad region, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

“It seems to me that the time has come for all these people to start parking all these yachts in their homeland <...> and invest in infrastructure, maintenance of these yachts, repairs. The Kaliningrad region has always been, by the way, the capital of the northwestern ship repair. There are all the prerequisites for this,” he said.

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According to the governor, when he sees the news that “a $ 700 million yacht was taken away from some rich man,” his “heart bleeds.” “Because with this money it was possible to build all the projects of marinas, berths and everything that we design in the Kaliningrad region, break down, build again, break down and build a third time,” Alikhanov explained.

And even, in principle, with the resources that are invested in one yacht, it would be possible in Russia “a long time ago to create at least one classy shipyard of a high level, world-class, where such yachts would be built,” he noted. “We would create an infrastructure for ourselves, there is a demand,” the governor concluded.

Superyacht "associated with Kerimov" detained in Fiji

Since the end of February, Western countries, in particular the European Union, the United States and Great Britain, have introduced several packages of sanctions against Russia for the events in Ukraine. A number of Russian businessmen and heads of companies also fell under the restrictions.

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The sanctions include a ban on entry and freezing of assets, therefore, after their announcement, yachts that were associated with the Russians began to be detained and arrested. For example, at the request of the United States, the yacht Tango was arrested in Mallorca, which, according to the American authorities, is owned by the founder of the Renova group, Viktor Vekselberg. And in Fiji, the superyacht Amadea, which the authorities have linked with Russian billionaire and senator Suleiman Kerimov, was forbidden to leave the port.

The Kremlin compared the arrests of the assets of Russian businessmen to a robbery. “These are absolutely honest legal entrepreneurs. They were robbed in the same way that travelers in the Wild West were robbed with the help of Smith and Wesson, ”said Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the president. In turn, the deputy head of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev warned that due to the desire to abolish the ownership of Russian business, Western countries will face a large number of lawsuits in the courts.

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