this is superyacht news with eSysman-
hi welcome back to the channel okay so we've got breaking news this is
literally just coming and this is about Alpha Nero now Alfa Nero is in Antigua
and we've talked about it in previous videos owned by Andre Guryev Senior there's Andrew Guryev Sr.
and junior- they own two boats that we know of Alpha Nero being one of them
and the second one being Luminosity which is in Montenegro -now this story concerns Alpha Nero and
reports are coming in that Alpha Nero -we're breaking this news -Alpha Nero is being bordered
by the FBI and Interpol in Antigua this morning -well this morning in Antigua time-
so there's a obviously there's a between Europe and there, there's like a 6 hour time difference
but we're just getting that information in so the Alpha Nero is an 82 meter or 266 foot super yacht
built by Oceanco and it's been laid up in Antigua since the start of the well since the invasion of
Ukraine and the reason being is that the the owner Andre Guryev Sr -he was not under sanctions at
this time but the the restrictions placed on Russian yacht owners was so severe that they
affected even owners that weren't sanctioned so things like the blocking of the Swiss system in
Russia and blocking of certain bank accounts meant that they were and still are unable to move money
around like they used to and this has caused problems for all all the Russian yacht owners
and Alpha Nero was affected so it's been laid up there with a very skeleton crew -we were told that
all of the crew were laid off and they had just a few people on board to look after the vessel -
now on the second of august this year Andre Guyer Sr and junior were
added we covered this in the on the channel as well they were added to the US sanctions list
and it would seem that as a result of those sanctions now from the US- that they've actually
gone to Antigua and bordered the vessel now we've not been able to confirm this independently but
we have a good source that tells us this is what is happening- the yacht is reportedly worth 120
million dollars -we will monitor the situation and we'll bring it to you as soon as we know
it does seem that the US has done what the UK did not do with motor yacht Garçon and Halo
and that is go and board that vessel before they had a chance to leave- even though they were
effectively invited to do so by the government of Antigua -so as soon as we have more on this
story we will bring it to you if you're in Antigua right now and you're close by please be sure to go
and have a look and you can contact us if you get any photos or or video at the normal places
okay so we'll move on to the next story okay so we've got some information about an upcoming
auction for a formerly Russian-owned superyacht and we've covered it before you might remember
we've actually broke the story on the channel in march motor yacht Axioma was heading to
Turkey now we we tracked the vessel crossing the Atlantic and what we found interesting is that
the yacht was according to sources well-informed sources the yacht was heading to turkey
now this was at the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine when a lot of the yachts were scrambling
to get away from places where they likely could be arrested and the vessel was heading across the
Atlantic and the information we received is that the vessel was heading to Turkey
but it made an unscheduled stop in Gibraltar which was very strange
and it was promptly arrested when it got there - it was allowed to to dock and then agents from
the Admiralty boarded the vessel immediately and the vessel was arrested it since then it has been
seized and now we can see that the vessel is going to be sold next week -so a couple of weeks ago i
put out a poll asking people how much they thought the vessel was going to sell for please be sure
to check that out i posted it on youtube in the community so you it should show up in your feed
i've reposted it today so and to get i've had about 6 1/2 thousand people already
vote on it so if you haven't already done that please do so and we'll we'll announce the the how
much assuming we find out how much it's sold for the well i'll be sure to tell you on the channel
now the auction starts on monday at 1 p.m i believe it's a 24-hour auction so it finishes
at 1 p.m on tuesday that's 130:0 hours monday to 13:00 hours tuesday now what we are told
is that people have been viewing the vessel and people are viewing the
vessel today and tomorrow saturday and sunday and according to The Guardian newspaper they spoke to
the broker for the Admiralty martial of Gibraltar and his name is Nigel Hollier
and he had some comments about the people who are coming to look and he said that there's been an
unexpected late surge by prospective buyers and said that more than 30 had flown to Gibraltar to
inspect the yacht in person he went on to say they are people from across the world -they are people
who own or or have owned boats of similar size and have been attracted to this boat because of the
judicial sale process and they're convinced that they're going to get a bargain
and he said that more potential buyers are booked in to see the
boat over the weekend as i just said and so people are coming on monday morning as
well when the bidding starts on monday so what in my experience seasoned yacht owners as
they referred to in that people who actually own boats or who are looking to get a new boat they
very often have crew like a Chief Engineer and a Captain and they will send their Chief engineer
and their captain to to inspect the vessel because you know they don't they might go to look at it
just to see what it's like inside the decor and stuff but to have a proper report done you send
your chief engineer and your Captain they will give you a proper report on what they find and how
much they think that you'll have to spend on it to get it up to scratch where you want to be right
so now if you're one of those Engineers one of those chief engineers or anybody who's going
to look at this vessel there's something that you might want to check out before
you make a bid on monday we've been speaking to people who have knowledge of the vessel
and they're saying that there's a problem with the vessel in terms of the tender garage so
the tender garage door sits below the water line so when you open the tender garage door
and the water pulls in it can be ankle high in the tender garage
so that is obviously a concern so what they have to do is they have to balance the vessel before
they open the tender garage door which means that the vessel is sitting straight like this
they have to use the tanks to ballast the vessel to lean the vessel over like this and then they
can open the door without the water coming in so i can't confirm any of this independently
but what you can do is look at the footage that we shot when we were in Gibraltar
in april and you can see the tender garage door here on the starboard side you can see the lines
going down each side but you cannot see the bottom of the door so that seems to confirm
what's been said that the bottom of the door is under the water line now that is a problem
right so that's definitely something that people who are interested in buying the vessels should
look into now the auction is going to be for sealed bids only so that's interesting in
itself it's not going to be people sat in a room or on phones and there's an auctioneer 400 million
it's going to be a sealed bid so you put in your maximum bid and then you and you give it in
they're all sealed they open them up the one who bids the highest
gets the prize so it's that's probably going to push the price up higher than
it would otherwise be with an open room of of people sitting in front of an auctioneer
now one of the one of the interesting things about The Guardian article is it had this subtitle it
had a title which i'll put on screen and then it underneath that title it said the proceeds of
the sale of axiom valued at 65 million pounds will benefit JP Morgan rather than the Ukrainian people
now that obviously is a way to try and add controversy to the story -now the thing
is JP Morgan the bank that loaned money to the former owner they're entitled to get their money
back right now it's very easy for people to say oh you know that company is an evil company blah blah
blah but the bottom line is that they loaned 20 million pounds they probably loaned more but they
were owed 20 million pounds from the owner of the vessel and they and they're trying
to get that money back and they have a right to do that now what you have to remember is
the yacht was headed to Turkey and if that vessel had not gone into Gibraltar and gone straight to
Turkey then JP Morgan may never have got that money back because the vessel would have been in
the safe haven right and as long as it never ventured into a place where it could be seized
again then he may never have got his money back now one of the things is that you have to remember
is that in Russia there are billions of dollars of commercial aircraft that have been
seized by Russian companies and they're being used illegally -Russian companies Russian airlines were
leasing commercial aircraft from western companies and when the sanctions hit those western companies
weren't allowed to do business with Russia so the planes were sat on the tarmac unused that
the companies weren't able to pay the money that they'd been paying to those western companies
because they weren't allowed to accept it and then after a while Vladimir Putin told the company to
seize those aircraft and to continue using them and he also did that with some companies in
Russia as well like as an example McDonald's they had branches in Russia they closed them
down because of the sanctions he told them to seize them they reopened those stores
and under a different name and they're r using the products those stores that were owned
by a western company and they and they're just taking them and they're using them right
and those companies especially the airlines will never get that money back and those aircraft
have been taken right so if Axioma had made it to Turkey and then on to Russia through the Black Sea
they may have never seen it again all right guys i'm going to leave it there have a great
weekend and i'll see you on monday all right oh and don't forget to like this video hit the
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