The mega yacht anchored in the port of Marina di Carrara could be of Vladimir Putin, according to the first indications gathered by American intelligence. The New York Times writes it, explaining that intelligence has not yet definitively concluded that the Scheherazade, a $ 700 million ship, belongs to the Kremlin leader, but the initial indications point in this direction.
According to American sources, Putin uses many figureheads to hide houses and boats he owns, often formally registered in the name of oligarchs. However, it is possible that Scheherazade is controlled more directly by Putin through a number of shell companies. During the summers of 2020 and 2021, the mega yacht traveled to Sochi, the location on the Black Sea where Putin has spent a long time since the pandemic began.
Yachts are the ‘protagonists’ of judicial news events linked to the war between Ukraine and Russia. The sanctions target the assets of Russian tycoons, including luxury boats.
One of the super yachts in Roman Abramovich’s private fleet, the Solaris, was photographed today upon her arrival in Tivat, Montenegro. The boat had left the port of Barcelona in recent days, where she was for maintenance work, after the British government had sanctioned the Russian billionaire, owner among other things of the European champions Chelsea. The Solaris, reports the Guardian, was identified on Thursday off the coast of Sicily. Abramovich’s other yacht, the more luxurious Eclipse, was spotted on Thursday in the waters west of the Canary Islands.
In Trieste yesterday a Russian tycoon’s yacht worth over half a billion euros was seized. The yacht “Sy A” attributable to Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko was subjected to freezing by the Special Currency Police Unit of the Guardia di Finanza. The yacht, in storage at the Port of Trieste, has a value of approximately 530 million euros.
143 meters long and 25 meters wide, the ‘Sy A’ is the largest sailing yacht in the world. The boat, launched in 2015, is among the most expensive ever built and flies the Bermuda flag. In fact, she is officially registered with a company in the British overseas territory, but her ownership is indirectly attributable to Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko, a Russian entrepreneur, affected by the European sanctions.
In Sanremo, last week, the Guardia di Finanza seized the Lena yacht, located in the port, from the Russian oligarch Gennady Nikolayevich Timchenko: the ‘jewel’ has a value of around 50 million euros.
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