marineforum.online has already reported on how interested people are - often gleefully - in the whereabouts of the oligarch yachts. The interest is a hot topic in chat rooms, blogs and on social media around the world.
The 19-year-old American Jack Sweeney has now also found a new hobby. He previously fearlessly published the data from Elon Musk's flights in private jets, which is said to have annoyed the capricious Elon terribly. In the course of the Ukraine crisis, the young man tracked the flights of Russian oligarchs. This spotting is a hobby of many, just take a look at Flugradar24.eu.
His new hobby is dedicated to the superyachts of the oligarchs. This is highly topical because they have been the subject of international sanctions against Russia for weeks. Several yachts have already been confiscated, and Russian luxury boats are also currently moored in Hamburg harbour and are not allowed to set sail: the "Dilbar" and the "Luna".
Sweeney has listed 18 oligarchs and their yachts on Twitter /RussiaYachts. These include Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich and Vladimir Putin himself. However, it is more difficult to hunt yachts than aeroplanes because flight routes are public.
The yacht "Clio", linked to Russian aluminium tycoon Oleg Deripaska, arrived in a bay near the southwestern Turkish resort of Göcek on Saturday as more Russian billionaires make their way to Turkey to escape Western sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The 239-foot yacht was previously in the Indian Ocean for at least two months. After successfully passing through the Suez and entering the Mediterranean, "Clio" transmitted the AIS message "Armed security on board". The arrival is the third after two superyachts owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich docked in Turkish harbours.
When the superyacht "Tango" was seized by Spain last week at the instigation of the US, it marked a high-profile victory for the Justice Department's KleptoCapture unit, a new group set up to track down the assets of sanctioned Russian oligarchs and others close to President Vladimir Putin. The only inconvenience is that the authorities are now paying the price. The seizure of Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg's 95-million-dollar ship means that the state will have to pay for the yacht's upkeep. This was announced by the New York Attorney General's Office.
More than a dozen superyachts with a total value of around 2.3 billion dollars have been seized or confiscated in European harbours in the past six weeks as part of the comprehensive sanctions imposed on Russian billionaires following the country's invasion of Ukraine. Maintaining yachts is expensive. The rule of thumb is that the annual running costs of a superyacht are usually around 10 % of the value of the vessel, so in the case of the Tango, around $9.5 million. In Germany this week, the authorities seized the world's largest yacht, Alisher Usmanov's "Dilbar", which is estimated by the US Treasury Department to be worth between 600 and 750 million dollars.
Source: Reuters, Twitter, yahoo, Bloomberg
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