This is superyacht News with eSysman
Hi guys welcome back to the channel we have some Breaking News from Fiji from the high court case
in Fiji reference motoryacht Amadea. i'm going to read you a statement this is from the director of
public prosecutions he says the court registers U.S. warrant to seize Amadea, the "Suva high
court" this afternoon on the 3rd of may at 3pm has granted the order to seize superyacht Amadea after
an application was made last month by the Director of Public Prosecutions to register the U.S.
warrant to seize the yacht. The rest of it is just background you can pause the video if you want to
read the rest of it but it's stuff we've already covered so what does this mean for the vessel well
technically if that was the end of it i mean if there was no if there was nothing else being done
then the vessel would now go into the hands of the U.S. and they will take it and do whatever
they're going to do with it to take it back to the U.S. until the seizure case is finalised so
this is not the end of the road right. this is the the U.S. government want to take the vessel
and then before they can sell it they have to go through a court case which will obviously will go
on for a long time what's happening right now in Fiji is that the the defence lawyer Faisal Hanif
who's acting on behalf of the registered owner "Mill Marine Investment" that's the shell company
that is technically classed as the owner of the vessel - he's been given time to appeal the ruling
and that appeal will be filed tomorrow so for now Amadea will stay in Fiji now the defence lawyer
Hanif he informed the court that there were strong indications that the "National Maritime
Authority of America" is in Fiji and that m/y Amadea might be towed away after today's ruling.
he said they are seeking a short-term protection until he files a proper state application
which is the appeal and the state lawyer Janita Prasad for the prosecution told the court
that they have not been made aware of any attempts to have the vessel taken away and she also said
that they will file a sealing order today so they want to keep what happened in court secret so
the idea of towing that vessel as well i mean seriously they're going to tow the vessel from
Fiji to the U.S. I find that very hard to believe that they would do that with a fully operational
vessel anyway that's not going to happen right away the defence lawyers filed an appeal so
that's going to happen tomorrow so stay tuned to the channel guys because there's more stuff coming
this is not the end i think i have a feeling this is just the start with reference to the crew - if
the appeal is rejected then what will happen is the vessel will be given to the U.S. in terms of
you know they're confiscating it with a desire to seize it, to sell i,t so they will take the
vessel that will most likely offer the crew on board a contract to take the vessel to the U.S:
-This is just based on what i've read and on what has happened in previous vessels elsewhere
so if the crew don't accept attempted conditions then the U.S. government would have to bring in
their own crew to take that vessel to the U.S: or they can tow it apparently- I don't think
that's a good idea- i find that very unlikely that that would happen -Anyway guys stay tuned because
there is going to be more to come and maybe more tomorrow but there'll definitely be something
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