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The oligarchs shut down super yachts. Here’s how they get around kidnappings – Foreign

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The oligarchs shut down super yachts.  Here’s how they get around kidnappings – Foreign

Rome, 30 May 2022 – It is a war on the Russian oligarchs, a war that with the new package of sanctions could go beyond the seizure and even go as far as the confiscation of assets. Russian billionaires have feared for months for their villas, their companies, their luxury yachts, 13 of which have already been seized in various countries. Since the end of February, there has been a naval battle between the oligarchs and the West, with Putin’s super-rich friends trying to save their megayachts from sanctions. The oligarchs’ first attempt – in some cases successful – was to rescue yachts in countries that do not apply sanctions. Now to escape the hunt against them, some of them have also given orders to turn off the automatic identification system (Ais) on board, which allows to know the exact position of each boat. According to an investigation by the British weekly Observer, at least six yachts have used this ploy. Among these ‘the Alfa Nero’, 82 meters, linked to the ‘king of fertilizers’ Andrey Guriyev, who disappeared from March 3 in StMarteen, in the Caribbean, and revised last week at anchor on the island of Antigua, also in the Caribbean but no longer under Dutch / French jurisdiction (and risk of kidnapping) like St Marteen. And then there is the ‘Clio’, 72 meters, linked to the aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska, who sailed 7,374 nautical miles from the Seychelles to Turkey, via Suez, with the AIS transmitter off, and reappeared on April 18 in the waters of Sochi, Russia. Third case is that of the ‘Galactica Supernova’, 70 meters, linked to the oligarch Vagit Alekperov, former president of Lukoil, who ‘disappeared’ from the monitors on March 2 when he was in Montenegro and is now presumably returned to Russia. Fourth case that of the majestic ‘Ocean Victory’ (140 meters) believed by the oligarch Victor Rashnikiv, …

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