400 million euros expensive – BKA fixes oligarch yacht in Hamburg
Created: 05/15/2022, 18:53
By: Patrick Mayer
Luxury yacht of a Russian oligarch: The "Luna", which is moored in the port of Hamburg.
© IMAGO / Laci Perenyi
The BKA arrests the luxury yacht of a Russian oligarch in Hamburg.
The owner is said to be close to the Kremlin and ruler Vladimir Putin.
Munich/Hamburg - The Ukraine conflict is said to have consequences for Russia's powerful: an international task force is in the process of tracking down and freezing the assets of Russian oligarchs.
Above all, Vladimir Putin's confidants are in focus.
With the help of the USA, European countries collect private jets, luxury apartments or yachts from the super-rich who are loyal to the Kremlin.
Russian oligarchs in the Ukraine war: Luxury yacht "Luna" arrested in Hamburg
For the second time in a short time, an oligarch's luxury yacht has been arrested in the port of Hamburg.
According to the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), the "Luna" should belong to the Russian businessman Farkhad Akhmedov.
As the ARD “Tagesschau” reports, Akhmedov works in the energy sector and in Russian local politics.
"He is close to the Kremlin and is a leading businessman and is active in areas of the economy that serve the government of the Russian Federation as an important source of income," says the BKA's justification for the sanction: "The luxury yacht M/S Luna is therefore subject to the sanctions and could be legally fixed or frozen in the port of Hamburg.” This means that the yacht may not be allowed to sail permanently, but “it is not seaworthy anyway for technical reasons”.
The BKA estimates the value of the ship at 400 million euros.
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Akhmedov is said to have been on the European Union sanctions list since April 8.
According to EU regulations, the yachts cannot be sold, rented or encumbered.
In mid-April, the German authorities arrested the luxury yacht “Dilbar”, which was also in the port of Hamburg.
According to the "Tagesschau" it belongs to the Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanow, who according to the report has an estimated fortune of 16.8 billion dollars.
Usmanow also has several properties on Lake Tegernsee, around 50 kilometers south of Munich.
According to
Münchner Merkur
, work was recently stopped in a new building in Rottach-Egern.
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