![]() ![]() ![]() Superyachts have been one of the most visible signs of Russian oligarchs’ mammoth wealth-and, recently, one of the most often seized. If that hunch is correct, it would be subject to immediate seizure under U.S., U.K., and European Union sanctions. The group obtained the all-Russian crew list for the yacht, and found that almost all of them were employed by Putin’s security detail, the Federal Protective Service, known by its Russian acronym FSO.īut Navalny’s group says the crew’s employment status suggests that the Russian leader owns the vessel. “Watch the video, and you will find out how Putin owns this yacht through figureheads, and how we can take this yacht away from him.” “On paper, it belongs to no one, and sits quietly in an Italian port,” the video says in Russian. But on Monday, the group headed by jailed Russian activist Alexis Navalny claimed in a YouTube video that the vessel belongs to Putin himself. “Belongs to no one”įor weeks, there have been questions about who owns the superyacht, which is registered in the Cayman Islands through a shell company. At about 459 feet long, it has six levels of decks, two helipads with a hidden helicopter hangar, a spa, huge living room and dining room, a swimming pool and three saunas, as well as an upper-level “owner’s area” that includes its own private spa. The yacht, currently moored in the Marina di Carrara on Italy’s Tuscany coast, is gargantuan, even by the outsize dimensions of Russian oligarchs’ superyachts. Scheherazade is also President Vladimir Putin’s $700 million superyacht, according to Russian investigative journalists-and its ability to survive being seized by Western governments will require far more cunning than storytelling. ![]()
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