this is super yacht news with eSysman, welcome back to the channel Okay so we've
got some breaking news here and this is about the motor yacht Axioma is leaving Gibraltar currently
undertow now doesn't sound like that big of a deal but when we give you the back story
you'll understand why this is significant so the boat Axioma is a 73 meter or 240 foot yacht
and like I said it was seen leaving at 16 :15 hours at UTC time today leaving Gibraltar being
towed by tugs now the yacht was previously owned by a Russian businessman Dimitri Pompianski but
it was seized in a relation to a claim by J.P Morgan Bank so this happened back in
March around about the 21st of March the vessel was heading across the Atlantic and
we actually check it on the traffic and we noticed that it said destination Gibraltar which
we thought was odd because we knew that the owner was under sanctions and we thought that would be
weird for them to go there because the boat would get arrested right anyway that's where they went
our sources told us that the boat was heading to Turkey but the boat went to Gibraltar and docked
and it was immediately bordered by the authorities and it was arrested right at that moment
so let's just I'll just give you a little bit more information about the yacht and what happened to
it today but over the weekend we got information from sources on the ground in Gibraltar that the
boat had been moved from a long-term berth and we went to Gibraltar ourselves and filmed Axioma
last year we'll put some footage up on the screen here and this was the birth that the vessels been
in the whole time now at the weekend the boat was towed over to the fuelling berth
I think this because I've been in there many times he was there for a number of hours and then it was
moved to a second birth which suggests that it went temporarily there to refuel however like we
said the boat is not using its own propulsion to move so it does appear that there's a problem with
the boat why would they need fuel if they don't have working engines you might ask well they still
have to use the generators to provide A/C and lighting and other all of the other electronics
for the vessels so they still need fuel for that reason the vessel was seized by the Gibraltar
Admiralty after a claim by JP Morgan they took the vessels successfully took the vessel because
they said there was an outstanding debt of 20.5 million Euros which is about 21 million dollars
and then the yacht was sold a few months later by the admiralty court of Gibraltar in a one-day
sealed auction sealed bid auction so a day or two after the auction was completed now
remember it was a closed bid auction it wasn't the highest bidder wins it was closed bid and
the bidder was selected by the Admiralty based on a due diligence check a couple of days after that
when they said that they still needed 10 days but two days after that we would we were contacted by
sources who said that they already knew who the buyer was they told us that the buyer was Turkish
and the buyer was connected to the shipyard that originally built the yacht which is the name of
which is Dunya yachts and they were also at the time of the arrest working on a support vessel for
Axioma at the shipyard a new vessel now we've not been able to confirm the new buyer if he is indeed
Turkish but we we can confirm the destination of the vessel which we'll go on to in a little bit
so in the statements at the time the Admiralty Marshal said that the Axioma
had been sold following the payments of 37.5 million dollars to the successful bidder by
the successful bidder and the bid was selected selected after completion of an enhanced due
diligence process but the admiralty Marshall was not going to disclose who the new owner was
so like I said we disclosed on the channel at the time that we believed that the new owner was
Turkish and the boat would be heading to Turkey now we thought it was odd as well that somebody
from Turkey would buy a yacht on previously owned by a Russian and the vessel had been taken as part
of the sanctions because where are all the Russian Yachts right now they're all in Turkey right so so
this is where we we believe that after the completion of the 10-year American Bureau
Shipping survey and fixing whatever problems the vessel has clearly as it's being towed the vessel
will most likely be put up for sale and then it whoever buys it then is anybody's guess right
okay so the vessel as I said is currently being towed now according to AIS on the on Axiomi it
says the the vessel is heading to Turkey as speculated in September on the channel
interestingly the yacht is broadcasting that it is underway and not being towed
which is unusual and also the destination that they've put into AIS incorrect It's
actually an incorrect destination We Believe now the tugboat's got the correct destination
and it is Gemlik in Turkey we'll put the destination on the screen so you can see
whether it is it's not that far away from the boss for straight in turkey and they've got an
ETA of around the 11th of February so yeah so that's what we've got so far . stay tuned we'll
check the vessels for as long as we can like I said we've got the details of the tug as well so
as long as they both continue to broadcast the AIS which is their requirements then we'll be
able to track it and give you more updates when as and when we have them if you have any information
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