Observer рассказала, как бизнесмены скрывают яхты во избежание ареста

The Observer reveals how businessmen hide yachts to avoid arrestBritish businessmen turned off the identification system to hide the location. Among them are courts

Yachts believed to be linked to UK-sanctioned Russian businessmen have begun to disable tracking devices, according to The Observer investigation (excerpted from The Guardian, both newspapers owned by the Guardian Media Group).

One of the crew members of the yacht, which, according to the newspaper, belongs to one of the “Russian oligarchs”, told the publication that he had received an order to turn off the automatic identification system (AIS), designed to identify ships, their dimensions, heading and other data. The system can be turned off for various reasons, but, according to experts interviewed by the publication, ship owners do not want them to be discovered, and thus try to avoid the seizure of property.

REUTERS learned about the shelter for the yachts of Russians under sanctions in the Maldives Business

The Observer, citing data from VesselsValue, reports that at least six superyachts linked to businessmen under British sanctions "hid" their whereabouts for more than a month. Among them:

www. Yacht Alfa Nero with a length of 82 m and a cost of $120 million (according to the industry portal SuperYachtFan), which is considered to be associated with businessman Andrey Guryev , a former member of the board of directors of PhosAgro. FORBES also wrote that the ship belongs to the entrepreneur. The yacht was last seen on March 3 off the island of Sint Maarten in the Caribbean. The $65 million Clio yacht linked to Oleg Deripaska. After the start of the Russian military operation, the ship headed from the Indian Ocean towards Turkey. The yacht last transmitted position data on 18 April from the Black Sea, near Sochi and Novorossiysk; three days later, the ship moored in the Sochi port of Imeretinsky, RBC Krasnodar wrote. 70-meter Galactica Super Nova worth $80 million, associated with the ex-head of LUKOIL Vagit Alekperov . On March 2, the vessel was off the coast of Croatia, since then it has not transmitted position data; The 140-meter Ocean Victory, which, according to journalists, belongs to Viktor Rashnikov , Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. The cost of the vessel is $300 million, on March 1 it was moored in the Maldives. 142-meter Motor Yacht A worth $300 million, which is associated with Andrey Melnichenko . She disappeared from the global tracking system after March 10, when the ship was in the Maldives. My Sky yacht, 52 m long and worth $40 million, allegedly associated with entrepreneur Igor Kesaev . On March 30, she was also moored in the Maldives, and after that she did not transmit location data.

Deripaska, Rashnikov and Melnichenko came under British sanctions in March, Guryev, Alekperov and Kesaev in April. The restrictions include a ban on entering the UK and a freeze on all assets in the United Kingdom.

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Melnichenko is also under EU sanctions. In April, Reuters reported that an associated vessel, Motor Yacht A, along with five other yachts related to Russian businessmen, were sheltering the Maldives. According to Maldives Attorney General Hussain Shamim, it is not so easy for the authorities to confiscate ships if the owners did not violate local laws.

As the Observer notes, since the start of the military operation in Ukraine and subsequent Western sanctions, at least 13 ships worth about $ 2.5 billion have been confiscated. One of the latest is the Amadea yacht, which, on a US warrant, was allowed to be confiscated by the Fiji Supreme COURT. The Fiji Times linked her to Suleiman Kerimov, who has been under Washington sanctions since 2018.