This is Super yacht news with eSysman
hi welcome back to the channel - if you saw my last video that the title was a Russian-owned
superyacht now flying a U.S. flag so a few hours after i posted that video because of the time
difference with Fiji and Europe - it was a few hours later the decision the final decision came
through from the supreme court and as a lot of people have noted already in the comments
section of the last video m/y Amadea is is now on its way, it's left Fiji and we'll go through what
happened so a few hours after i posted my video the decision was made in the court which we'll
go into in a minute and the vessel left Laoka in in Fiji at 04:58 hours or just before 5 o'clock
in the morning UTC or 16:58 hours local time in Fiji on the 7th of June so it left on the 7th of
june the final stay requested by defense attorney Faisal Hanef was rejected and this is how it was
written in the court papers the final page was a 20-page transcript but the last page said this
summons of stay of execution and of proceedings pending appeal filed on 1st of june 2022 is
dismissed and struck out and that was from the president of the supreme court of Fiji justice
kamal kumar after that decision was made about an hour later the vessel has slipped its lines
and sailed slowly out of the port as you can see here from this video footage which was
filmed by the "Fiji Sun" there was i think it was um streamed live to facebook and you can
see the vessel leaving slowly and heading on its way so the vessel is now heading northeast and
apparently seems to be heading back the way it came you know all that time ago when and
the vessel headed from Manzanillo or Mexico down to Fiji well they seem to be headed in
the same direction now it's hard to tell it's too early to tell really where it's where the vessels
going - don't know the fuel situation on board don't know whether they bunkered in Fiji because
we already know that that vessel can do that trip back to mainland us in one trip without refueling
assuming it's full now it might it's possible that the the us have an idea of taking it to a military
base and filling it with fuel possibly hawaii but like i said it's far too early to tell where
the vessel is going the destination in AIS just shows XXX for obvious reasons the U.S. government
or the U.S. officials on board don't want to broadcast their destination while they're in
the Pacific Ocean but stay tuned for updates and i will bring them to you as and when i have them
okay i'd like to address a few questions recurring questions i keep coming up in the comments section
because there are so many of them it's not worth me or anyone else's time in trying to
answer them separately so these are there's just three questions here and there and uh
you'll see why i've brought them up if you've been reading the comments so the first one is it's not
good obviously going back to the title of the last video Russian owned superyacht
now flying the u.s flag and he says it's not a Russian known yacht flying a U.S. flag the U.S.
flag means it's a U.S. yacht well not quite the vessel doesn't belong to the U.S. government yet
they just have custody of the vessel right now and obviously if the U.S. government
are sailing the yacht under its custody then they're going to fly under the U.S. flag so so
that the vessel does not belong to the U.S. yet it's just in their custody and the next
question what are they going to do with the yacht well assuming that they do finally eventually get
the forfeiture case completed and the vessel becomes the property of the U.S. government
"President Biden" has talked talked about selling the yacht and and using the proceeds
to put towards Ukraine either the war effort or rebuilding of Ukraine and each yacht that they
take that they're going to do the same thing with so that's the plan if they can't sell it
for obvious reasons i'm not sure there are too many people out there who want to buy
a yacht previously owned by a Russian owner so it's in this case i saw uhsome information
online that said that they will possibly scrap the vessel and strip of all of the valuable materials
and equipment and sell it all off separately and then do the same thing with the money
and the last question was how can the U.S. just take it without any court case it was stolen by
the us well if you're saying if you mention putting that comment in that video you clearly
haven't been watching my channel for the last 2 months because this vessel has been stuck in Fiji
since the 13th of april and it's now june and the vessel has been and there's been one court
case after another appeals stays so it's been there's been a whole procedure all the way up
to the supreme court of Fiji and this was just to prevent the vessel from being taken to back to the
U.S. under U.S. jurisdiction so and it's not over yet so the like i said the U.S. don't own this yet
yet they have custody of it now they have to go to court in the u.s and they have to convince a court
that the vessel was or part of the vessel you know like a percentage of the vessel was
gotten through you know was it ill-gotten gains as they say that money that was got illegally
was used to finance this vessel that now that the U.S. government has to prove that in court it once
they prove that obviously the company "Mil Marine Investments" will have will have the opportunity
to get lawyers probably based in the us to to work their corner like Fazel Hannoff did in Fiji and
and andthey'll argue that it's not you know it's not owned by Suleiman Kerimov as they did in Fiji
i would imagine once that case is over and that and those cases can take years now there was
talk through the U.S. department of justice saying that they have or the u.s government
have changed the laws to make it easier for them to take these these vessels in these situations
but they still do have to prove that in court i believe if there's any lawyers out there that
think are sitting there shaking their heads right now saying that's not right anymore please be sure
to let me know and i will make a correction but that's what i believe is going to happen next
the vessel is not owned by the U.S. yet and they have to go through the court proceedings so all
the people saying it's been stolen it's not been stolen they used a agreement amongst different
countries to file a warrant in Fiji and the Fijian Government was obliged under those treaties to
look at that warrant that's what those court cases are about the the court found in favor
of the U.S. government and the vessel is now on the way there so that was all done in the
court system now you can disagree with the court rulings the judges gave but you can't say there
was no court case because obviously there has been and they're going to be many more so the
vessel hasn't been stolen according to the letter of the law the procedures have been followed
all right i'm going to leave it there i'm gonna have a rest now because i've had about four
hours sleep from the last video please be sure to like this video- subscribe if you haven't already
and hit that bell notification so you get notifications of future videos
and also be sure to put a comment below let me know what you think of what's happening
here - if you've got any any information about this story about any other stories any
photos of other yachts that we've been covering or maybe one that we haven't been covering be sure
to get in touch with me the usual way the about page of the youtube channel or uh instagram and
also in facebook messenger -alright guys thanks very much for watching and i'll see you soon, bye