The Amadea superyacht, attributed to Putin's close oligarch Suleiman Kerimov, has been confiscated by the United States and arrived in the Hawaiian port of Honolulu.
According to the Refinitiv Eikon vessel tracking resource, $ 300 million yacht Amadea arrives in Hawaii. She was arrested in Fiji last month at the request of US authorities, who claim it belongs to Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov, who is under sanctions, according to Voice of America.
yachts and other luxuries of Russian oligarchs in an attempt to put pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine.
The 106-meter (350-foot) yacht left the port of Lautok in Fiji last week, after the Supreme Court of the Pacific Island State ruled that the yacht should leave the country because the government was expensive to maintain. Refinitiv data show that the ship moored in the port of Honolulu on Thursday afternoon.
On April 13, the ship arrived from Mexico without any permission in Fiji to escape the storm, where it was detained.
< We will remind, in the beginning of May the Italian police arrested the Shahrezad mega-yacht , one of the largest and most expensive yachts in the world, which, according to media reports, belongs to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Earlier in Spain, the yacht Tango, owned by businessman Victor Vekselberg, was arrested. Gennady Tymchenko's yacht, which owns shares in the petrochemical company Sibur, has been arrested in Italy. The yacht of the head of the Pipe Metallurgical Company Dmitry Pumpyansky was arrested in Gibraltar.
Finally, in March, Spain temporarily arrested the yacht of Russian oligarch Sergei Chemezov, who heads Rostech and was a former KGB officer.
Elite yachts linked to Russia's sanctioned oligarchs have begun shutting down an automatic location tracking system to avoid arrest. The owners are burying them in the ports of states that have not joined the sanctions against Russia, which has launched a large-scale war against Ukraine.
