This is super yacht news with eSysman
Hi guys welcome back to the channel it is sunday the 3rd of april
and it is time for some superyacht news
-all right guys so- you all know who Roman Abramovich is and you all know which yachts he
has - He has the big 162-meter super yacht Eclipse and he has- his latest boat is motor yacht Solaris
and those boats are both out in Turkey right- Now very brief -backstory is Solaris was in
Barcelona getting some much needed maintenance done but it was hurried out of the dry dock and
it fled the day before the UK placed sanctions on Roman Abramovich- i think about a week later
the EU also placed sanctions on him the boat shot over to Montenegro supposedly to refuel but it
didn't actually refuel and then after a few days there anchor they left there and headed to Turkey
in the meantime Eclipse leaves Anguilla in the Caribbean and shoots across the Atlantic
at 18 knots heads straight through Gibraltar and right through the Med and heads to Turkey also
incredible journey over 6,000 nautical miles and seemed to have made it without refuelling
they both went to Turkey right -so Turkey's a NATO country but they're not in the EU although
they wanted to be in the EU and yet they are not enforcing the sanctions that the EU
placed like Montenegro who's not in the EU- they've joined in to enforce the sanctions
UK, US and EU sanctions Turkey have not done that so it is turning into a bit of a safe haven for
super yacht owners who perhaps don't want to go to Vladivostok - Roman Abramovic is not - doesn't
seem to be keen to send his yachts over there so he's gone to Turkey instead except for the 2 that
are in the Caribbean right now -smaller ones-- the reason why i bring this up is because a London
headquartered port operator could be breaching the sanctions by allowing Roman Abramovic to
dock motor yacht Solaris in the port in Bodrüm in Turkey because the company is actually British
owned and it's actually on the London stock exchange since 2007 - the company's called
Global Port Holding" and they are being told that they have a big a very big risk by allowing
a super yacht- a sanctioned individual to use one of its ports and this is because UK sanction laws
prevent British companies from accepting payments from companies or assets controlled by sanctioned
individuals -so bottom line is the laws that that have been created -the legislation says that we're
not allowed to give any assistance or technical assistance you know - now they're adding crew
to that so the crew will be technically illegal for crew to work for sanctioned individuals also
and of course the Turkish foreign minister says that Abramovic is
of course welcome to do business in Turkey as per international law so they're not likely to start
sanctioning anybody right now - another vessel that is in Turkey - if you go right back to the
beginning of my videos on the sanctions of sanctioned super yachts you will see
there was a story about a vessel called "Galactica Supernova" she was in Montenegro and she left
Montenegro and turned off her AIS and basically vanished - she's owned by Vajit Alekparov
and he's the president of Russia-based luke oil and he's actually not on the sanctions list but i
think he was going to be and his vessel hightailed it and left to i mean it wouldn't be unusual for
his vessel to sail to Turkey but it's the way that he did it vessel turned off its AIS and
effectively- we couldn't track it however one of the subscribers of the channel
spotted the boat in Turkey and sent me this photograph that i'll put up on screen right now
-so that's number three vessel in Turkey -another vessel that headed in that direction
was in Imperia in Italy -now if you remember back we we saw Lady M was one of the first vessels to
be arrested by the Italian authorities in Imperia -that was on the 3rd of march- on
the 2nd of march this vessel which is a 74 meter or 242 feet ammo's vessel that was built in 2018
she left Imperia she was there this vessel is often an Imperia and spends its winters there
she left the day before on the 2nd of march and headed south very quietly there was no mention
of this vessel up until now that i've seen in any of the press - this vessel according to some
of my sources said that it was owned by a very high up Russian politician now the vessel headed
to Turkey also and she is now in Istanbul in Turkey now fairly recently - i've
got good information that the vessel is linked to former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev
so that is another vessel that is uh that has left Italy or left the EU should i say
and gone to Turkey now it seems like Turkey is becoming a safe haven somewhat for sanctioned
super yacht owners- if you've seen any of these vessels - if you're in Turkey and you've seen
any of these vessels take a photo or video get in touch - all the usual ways - you can
go to the "about page" on my home channel on youtube or you can contact me through Instagram
-all right guys some other updates in the news right now the vessel and motor yacht Phi-
i'm going to go with Phi- i've been told in the comments that that is pronounced in every other
although the possible way you can pronounce it phi pi phi but i'm gonna go with Phi- the vessel
formerly known as Phi- i'll say she's the 59 meter yacht that was was arrested in London-
she is the first vessel to be arrested in the UK - In UK waters well actually i had a subscriber
contacted me the other day and sent me some photographs saying that the vessel was refuellin-g
now in normal circumstances you might think -oh my god the vessel's refuelling maybe it's about to
leave -and it's and it's been arrested right well it's quite normal for a vessel to receive fuel
even when she's not sailing because if the vessel is not running on shore power then they need fuel
to run generators so the vessel has power and air conditioning and stuff like that so a vessel
that is docked can still use fuel especially the big boats not like this one but like solaris and
Eclipse and stuff it's very unlikely they'd ever be able to connect to show power because they're
just too big- so they always need to have fuel even though they're not planning on going anywhere
or they're not allowed to go anywhere but the reason why i bring this up is because the owner's
name is Vitaly Kochitkov and according to the financial times he is the owner of motor yacht Phi
and he owns a mode he owns Motive Telecom which is a small mobile network in the Urals
of Russia it's a small network but apparently very very well paying so he's the owner
of that vessel and i think i said in a previous video that the vessel was actually in London to
receive a um an award a super yacht award which is unfortunate for the owner i suppose and one other
story let's go back to Gibraltar and a vessel called motor yacht Axioma went into Gibraltar
and was immediately arrested bordered by authorities the vessel was arrested and
it was it was announced at the time that a bank had put in a claim against the vessel and that's
why the vessel was arrested well it turns out that bank is JP Morgan and when i caught order
authorising the seizure of a rushing oligarch 75 million dollar super yacht in Gibraltar the
reports say so that is what they're saying that the vessel sees but i think she was arrested
under warrant because of money owed so the bank was collecting on the debt so in that particular
instance that vessel could be sold if that is not settled as far as i know the vessel is still in
Gibraltar under arrest all right guys i'm going to leave it there thanks very much
for watching -thanks very much for everybody who has helped me with these videos whether it's been
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