On yachts, which are supposedly associated with the UK sanctions by Russian businessmen, they began to disconnect the devices that allow the location of the vessels, it is said in the investigation of The Observer (its exposure are shown on the website The Guardian, both newspapers belong to Guardian Media Group).
One of the crew of the yacht, which, according to the newspaper, belongs to one of the Russian oligarchs, told the publication about the received order to disable the automatic identification system (AIS), designed to identify the courts, their dimensions, course and other data. The system can be disconnected for various reasons, but, according to experts surveyed by the publication, the owners of the courts do not want them to be discovered, and try to avoid the arrest of property in this way.
The Observer, citing the data of Vesselsvalue data, reports that at least six superflads associated with businessmen under British sanctions “hid” their whereabouts for more than a month. Among them:
-an ALFA Nero-length 82 m and a cost of $ 120 million (according to the industry portal Superyachtfan), which is considered associated with businessman Andrei Guryev, a former member of the Board of Directors Fosagro. The fact that the ship belongs to the entrepreneur also wrote Forbes. The last time the yacht was noticed on March 3 by the island of Sint-Martin in the Caribbean.
-CLIO-length 72 m long and worth $ 65 million, which is associated with Oleg Deripaska. After the start of the Russian military operation, the ship headed from the Indian Ocean towards Turkey. The last time the yacht transmitted data on the whereabouts of April 18 from the Black Sea, not far from Sochi and Novorossiysk; Three days later, the ship moored in the Sochi port “Imeretinsky”, wrote “RBC Krasnodar”.
-70-meter Galactica Super Nova worth $ 80 million, associated with ex-head Lukoil Vagit Alekperov. On March 2, the ship was off the coast of Croatia, since then it has not transmitted data on the whereabouts;
-140-meter Ocean Victory, which, according to journalists, belongs to the chairman of the board of directors of the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plant Viktor Rashnikov. The cost of the vessel is $ 300 million, on March 1 it was moored in the Maldives.
-142-meter Motor Yacht A worth $ 300 million, which is associated with Andrei Melnichenko. It disappeared from the global tracking system after March 10, when the ship was in the Maldives.
-yacht My Sky 52 m long and worth $ 40 million, allegedly related to entrepreneur Igor Kesaev. On March 30, she was also moored in the Maldives, and then did not transfer data on the whereabouts.
Deripaska, Rashnikov and Melnichenko fell under the sanctions of Great Britain in March, Guryev, Alekperov and Kesaev in April. The restrictions provide for a ban on entry into the UK and blocking all assets in the United Kingdom.