This is super yacht news with eSysman
All right welcome back to the channel all right we've got breaking news
tonight the U.S. department of the treasury has added a number of people
some companies and some actual yachts they've added to the sanctions list so we're going to
go through that list right now it is quite the list umso we'll get into that right away
okay so the new people that have been added this is the U.S. sanctions list Aexei Mordechov
is the first person now he has already been on the sanctions list since march his he was
in actual fact one of his vessels m/y Lady M was one of the first vessels to be arrested
when all this started it was in Imperia in Italy if you remember there was 2 vessels on the same
day m/y Lady M imperia and motion laner in San Remo in Italy they were both arrested the more
high profile yacht that he owns because he owns more than one yachts
he owns another yacht a 141 meter or um 464 foot motor node now if you remember the saga of monty
at nord it was in the Seychelles and the vessel left and headed over to vladivostok in russia
um so he owns that vessel now if there was ever any doubt that Alexi Mordechev owned M/Y Nord i
think this next bit of news will eliminate that doubt also added to the sanctions list is who
someone who i believe is his wife and her name is Marina Alexandra Modeshova and she runs a company
which has an address in London in fact called nord gold plc and it's it's a go a gold seller and
yeah it's called north gold so you know there's a if there were ever any doubt of the the vessel
called nord who's the owner is i think that's eliminated that the next person on the list is
God himself God Saminovich nissanoff and Nisanov excuse me Russia a Russian property developer
he's been added today he owns amongst other things he owns a villa in the south of FRance in Cap
Ferrat and his vessel he has a super super yacht called a Galaxy of Happiness and that is often
seen at anchor of Cap Ferrat right outside of where his villa is now the next person on the list
is and not a yacht owner but he owns a yacht management company is EVgeny Cockman his name is
and he is the founder of imperial yachts now you will have you will remember if you if you're a
regular viewer you'll know i mentioned Imperial Yachts on a few occasions i've had various read
out various statements from the periodics over the last few months as well they are a yacht
management company and they look after most of the Russian super yachts that are out there they they
cater towards uh the russian-owned superyachts now what is a yacht management company because i know
a lot of you probably don't know what that is um a yacht management company they have many tasks
and we're talking from crew recruitment personnel recruitment arranging flights for crew training
parts procurement a payroll so that they're also involved in updating of regulations for yachts
how they operate and stuff like that so there's there's an awful lot on the plate of a yacht
management company now one of the obviously one of the things about this company is based in monaco
but it was founded by a Russian almost entirely there they have um all of the yachts that they
manage are russian owned i believe now i it's very hard for me to confirm that um because they don't
actually publish a list of the yachts that they manage it's also something that when i do these
videos if i know that they manage a certain yacht i will contact them and ask them for a statement
now sometimes i ask them and they tell me they don't manage a yacht like m/y Crescent and m/y Sheherezade
they were managed by Imperial Yachts during the build phase but now according to a spokesperson
from Imperial they don't manage those yachts anymore but anyway that's what a yacht management
company does now the ramifications for the yacht management company being sanctioned by the U.S.
is that many of the interactions they have with like some of the things i said parts procurement
maintenance technical maintenance of the vessel payroll of the crew and the payroll and pay of
bills for technicians to fly to the yacht when there's issues and stuff like that it's all
done through the yacht management company and the owners generally pay the yacht management
company obviously they pay them a fee but they put they use the management company to pay all the
bills for that yacht now if the company is being sanctioned that means that any any well this is
what i believe it means i have to tread carefully here but if if a company is sanctioned that means
that anybody who deals with the U.S. or is in the based in the U.S. or does any dealings with the
us cannot do dealings with anybody who's on the sanctions list now if a yacht management company
is on that sanctions list then surely that means that they can't deal with that with those people
so that could have a huge ramifications if the yacht owner can't pay the management company
to pay then the yacht can't function so that has a massive potential impact
on every yacht that they manage and i've i have asked them for a statement i haven't
heard back i'm sure they're very busy right now because they've just been sanctioned today
okay so moving on there are a number of yachts actually added to the sanctions
list which i don't believe i've seen before now the first one is is motor yacht Flying Fox now
you'll all know that the m/y Flying Fox was arrested in dominican republic it was detained
or was detained in Dominican Republic for a month and while they the U.S. ice
were on board going through it along with the obviously the officials from Dominican Republic
and the vessel was eventually allowed to leave and it kind of left on a cloud of suspicion
because nobody really knew why left and the and the Dominican government just said only that it
had left and never gave any reasons for why it had left but it looks like in terms of now that the
Americans have actually added it to the sanctions list i mean it looks like they really missed out
on an opportunity to get that vessel because obviously that vessel is now in in Turkey right
i tracked it as it came across the came across from across the Atlantic
through the Mediterranean and it's now in Turkey with most of the other Russian-owned super yachts
so so most yet Flying Foxes is actually on the list and it says here linked to imperial yachts
now every person or every company that's on this list has a reason it has like a
link linked to it sort of explaining why it's been added to the list and Flying Fox has
added because of its link to imperial Yachts -now that i find that a little bit confusing because
they manage many yachts so is that the reason why it's on the on the list or is there another reason
i'm not quite sure about that one okay so the next yacht on the list is now you'll remember this one
if you've been watching since the beginning m/y Graceful and m/y Graceful was believed to be
linked to Vladimir Putin and it was in refit in Germany just before the the invasion of Ukraine
and the vessel left abruptly from the shipyard before the refit period was completed and the
vessel just left and sailed to Kaliningrad and it and then they turned off its AIS and disappeared
it was one of the first boats to disappear at the beginning of this of the invasion of ukraine
so the next boat on the list is moti madame goo she's a 99 meter
Feadship which has got this blue color on the whole very distinctive vessel and she's been
hiding out in the Dubai for months now and she turned off her AIS months ago she's been out
of anchor and then coming back into into the marina there now what i from what i understand
for over a month now she's been sat there with a minimum crew on board
uh because of because of the problems they've been facing already um for um being able to get things
done now because of all these sanctions going on but Madame Gu has been added and then this is the
owner of madame goo is andre scotch also a Russian businessman the next festival on the list m/y
Olympia flies under cayman islands flag so does madame go by the way and this boat is linked to
vladimir putin also according to the us this is from the paperwork from the u.s and the last
vessel on the list is m/y Rhapsody she's a 1500 gross ton vessel with a Marshall islands flag
and um this vessel is linked to andre costan who's also also been added to the sanctions list
so there we go guys we have a lot of uh people a lot there's more people on the list that are
being added to the sanctions obviously but i've only covered the people who are
related to super yachts for obvious reasons so you've got all those people added to the list
you've got this yacht management company imperial yachts which is you know it's just happened today
so it's going to be interesting to see what happens moving moving forward because i don't
know how that's going to affect exactly because also one of the other things is with like i
said with Imperial being so secretive i think only Imperial know exactly how many vessels they manage
but that is going to become more apparent as all of those vessels i would say potentially are going
to be affected by the sanctions placed on this company and it will be interesting to see also if
if that if this of the US adding them to the sanctions list will prompt the EU or the UK
to do the same what i'm going to do over the next few days i'm going to try and break that down and
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