This is super yacht news with eSysman- hi welcome back to the channel there was a Reuters article
recently about a yacht that is for sale the yacht is called m/y Sky it's a 41 meter yacht that was
built by Heesen in 2014 the owner is Igor Kesaev and he is a Russian who is under sanctions now he
was sanctioned by the UK and the EU in March and April respectively the EU cited his involvement
in military weapons production as well as links to the Russian government and its Security Forces
now motor yacht Sky has not broadcast an AIS signal for three months three and a half months
according to Marine Traffic now if you know where this vessel is obviously there's a video
on screen right now of what the vessel looks like if you know where this vessel is please
get in touch let us know it was last seen in Mali in the Maldives but that was three and
a half months ago it's quite possible that the vessel is still in the Maldives because it is a
safe place to be for that yacht but the yacht is for sale right now and the yacht was the Reuters
became aware of this sale through a company based in the US called Mill wood and Associates
and they're based in Fort Lauderdale in Florida and they call themselves one of the
Premier yacht brokerage firms in the world and they said they they sent out a circulation email
talking about the imminent sale of this vessel or about the fact that it was for sale and in the
email it was said that there was a warning on it not to post the advertisement publicly so
clearly because of the sanctions right now what's interesting about this story is- the owner of the
vessel Mr Cursive, he is under sanctions with the UK and with the EU but not with the US -yeah this
us-based firm can dodge those sanctions on the EU and the UK by selling it out of the US right when
Reuters contacted Merle, Wood & associate and asked them about the sale that they replied and said
that they should contact Burgess because they are the primary broker in the sale now clearly Burgess
having an office in London that means that they would clearly be going against those sanctions
now Reuters did contact Burgess spokesperson called Nikki Paridas and they said in a WhatsApp
message that she can't answer questions about the yacht and referred questions
to Wood the company that had referred them to Burgess now that when they Reuters went back
to the other company they did not answer them so they're both pointing fingers at the other
broker right now for the American brokerage company they're not they're technically not
breaking any laws the Burgess company would be if they were involved in that sale most likely
now what Reuters said is that they checked the Burgess website on Wednesday and they
found that motor yacht Sky was listed as available for Charter bookings but as of thursday Burgess had
removed that listing after Reuters had inquired about it so they said what's up with this being
on there and then they just pulled that bit of information about the boat so one of the things
that Reuters said in that article is that they were unable to confirm if the owner of the boat
or of Mr Kessev was still the direct owner of the vessel however we went to the IMO database
and the company that is registered as the owner of the vessel is Mabel Enterprises limited and they
have been the owner since they have been listed as the owner since 2014 which is when the vessel was
delivered so the ownership of the boat has not changed since the day of delivery and therefore
it seems to suggest that it's still owned by the same person right so that's a very interesting
developing story there it seems like the Russian sanctioned Russian owners of these Yachts are
finding ways to get around sanctions so now we've contacted Burgess for statements however in the
past whenever we've contacted Burgess we have never ever received a reply so I'm not holding
out a lot of hope here that they will reply to this either -okay so we're going to leave that one
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