this is superyacht news with "eSysman"
2 superyachts arrested and detained in Italy hi guys welcome back to the channel uh welcome
back to a very busy news day i just want to say quickly before we get into it welcome to all the
new subscribers - we've got a lot of new viewers and very thankful for you for subscribing
and we've got a lot of news to go through so i just wanted to say thanks anyway
so let's get going the first thing is this is according to reuters uh italy has arrested or
confiscated 2 yachts owned by Russians because of eu sanctions but the first boat is
a boat called "Lady M" as you can see here it's a 65 meter or 213 foot Palmer Johnson built in 2019
this vessel is owned by Alexei Mordechov now a few people sent me links up also i want to
thank everybody who sent me links i've had i've been inundated with information which
has been fantastic thanks for everyone who send me through the data i appreciate all of it i'm sorry
i can't read out everybody's names but i really appreciate that um Alexei Mordechoff owns
2 boats which we'll get into in a minute but this vessel is worth about 27 million dollars
and it's been confiscated according to this report Mordechoff yacht ranks first in "Forbes"
amongst Russian billionaires with a net worth of 29 billion dollars in a statement Mordechoff
said "i have absolutely nothing to do with the current geopolitical tensions i don't understand
why sanctions have been imposed against us" he said in a statement on Tuesday reported by "Forbes"
but what is interesting about that statement is he did not mention the Ukraine invasion or
Russia 's involvement in that directly he just said geopolitical tensions
the boat as i said is a 65 meter or 213 foot boat now if you're thinking that's a small boat
for a man who's worth 29 billion dollars maybe you're right because he just took delivery in
2021 of another super yacht called m/y Nord this boat is 141 meters long or 464 feet and it
has a gross tonnage of 10,000 gross tons she's out of reach right now of UK sanctions that is
because she's in the Seychelles - if you don't know where that is -that's an island off
the east coast of Africa the second boat that was arrested was reported to also be in "Imperia"
but is actually berthed in San Remo in Italy according to "AIS" this is "m/y Lane"
and it's a 38 meter or 126 foot boat built by San Lorenzo in 2010 and the yacht belongs to
"Gennady Tinchenko" who's another Russian with close ties to president Putin and this
vessel has been arrested which means it's been detained and it's going to be confiscated soon
according to the report so one yacht that is not yet arrested is a yacht called "motor yacht Aurora "
she is currently in dry dock in Barcelona and according to a source close to the vessel is
hastily preparing to leave "Aurora" was delivered in 2017 and is valued at an estimated 120 million
dollars "Aurora" is owned by "Andrei Molchenov" he owns a controlling stake in the ISR group which
is the biggest producer of construction materials in Russia it should be noted he is not currently
on the EU sanctions list however the hasty preparation may be a sign that he's worried right
so you can see here on the screen here for the last known position on AIS as she's been in
dry stock in Barcelona for some time and "AIS" is often switched off during refits
okay so the main story is about Dilbar so we've been talking about "Dilbar" in the last
few days if you don't know what "Dilbar" is if you knew "Dilbar" is the largest superyacht in the world
by volume and it dwarfs every other vessel around it- it's quite a thing to see
in real life actually -firstly some of the this is some excellent detective work from one of my
subscribers he sent me information that you're seeing on the screen right now that shows you that
Usmanov's 2 helicopters and his private airbus a340 plane which is massive we're all
all registered with the Isle of Man they've all been in the last
day they've all been de-registered now what does that mean that basically means that it can no
longer legally fly those aircraft and they were deregistered like i said on the 3rd of March
which was yesterday- as i film this -his airbus A340 is one of the largest privately owned
aircraft in the world so you remember you might remember that i made um a video saying that the
boat was seized and then i and then i said that the boat wasn't seized but it had been arrested
it's a bit of a gray area and somebody very put in a very good statement in the comments section
that was explaining how the word seized in german has different ramifications but effectively the
vessel is arrested and is unable to leave and unable to operate as we're going to go into
right now so according to a source close to the vessel because of the sanctions placed against
Mr. Usmanov many of the companies that supply and support the vessel have stopped doing business
with the boat because of this all the crew that work for the boat will have their employment
contracts terminated from what i understand the company that manages the boat cannot even
pay their final salaries and any unpaid leave they might have earned what does this mean for the
vessel's immediate future well you can't leave a vessel especially on this side you can't leave it
unmanned so most likely scenario will be that they will employ a small caretaker crew
to look after the vessel- technically it's at Bloom and Voss but Bloom and Voss is owned
by Lürssen now and Lürssen built this boat so it's quite possible that Lürssen could
look after it themselves but it's unlikely that that will happen most likely scenario
is that some of the crew that have just been terminated will be rehired most certainly at a
different rate of pay to look after the vessel until this is all resolved you may not feel
very sorry for the crew of this boat because because of who you know the boat belongs to uh
but you know these people are professional seamen just like myself just there to do a job
just in the same way that if you think about Roman Abramovich owns Chelsea
football club right and all of those players that play for Chelsea who are worshipped by their fans
they all work for Abramovic as well and all the people who go to watch the games
they all pay money to Abramovic to watch that game right all the people who work at the
club and all the businesses they're just regular people, like me who are trying to make a living so
you know it's very disappointing to hear that i mean and that boat has a crew of 80 to 90 people
plus the people who are on rotation so i say more likely 140 and 150 people have just all
been told that they don't have a job anymore so for me as a as a maritime professional
that is quite a sad state of affairs i recognize why it's happening and i recognize that this is
going to happen to a lot of people a lot of people in my industry are going to be affected by this
so yeah i just wanted to point that out there's a lot of
very anti-russian sentiment in the comments right now and i understand why that is but just remember
that not every Russian supports what's going on in Ukraine right now there's demonstrations in Russia
by people who are told that if they demonstrate they will be arrested and put in prison and now
Putin said that he will send those people to the front line to fight as well so
yeah not everybody's for this war anyway guys i'm going to wrap it up here big news day
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