Mar 22, 2022 19:00:00

The world's 13th largest yacht of 84 billion yen may be 'owned by President Putin'

An organization led by

Alexei Navalny , who has been known as Putin's political enemy for many years, has released a new movie 'The owner of the 13th largest mega yacht in the world may be Putin.'

Секрет Шехерезады. Яхта Путина за 75 000 000 000 ₽ --YouTube


According to a new movie released by Mr. Navalny and others, the mega yacht 'Sheherazad' with a total construction cost of 75 billion rubles (about 84 billion yen) moored at the port of Marina di Carrara located in Tuscany, Italy is said to be owned by President Putin. There is a suspicion.

First of all, as a premise, President Putin is subject to freezing of assets owned in and within the sanctioned countries due to sanctions of Western countries.

Sanctions on President Putin to freeze assets US, UK, Canada, EU [Ukraine situation]: Asahi Shimbun Digital

https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASQ2V45SLQ2VUHBI01D.html

On the other hand, it is not true that all of Putin's assets in the west were actually frozen. Putin's daughter, Catherine Tihonova, is reported to own a villa overlooking the beautiful coastline of the Basque Country in southwestern France ...

Lyudmila Alekina , the former wife of President Putin, also lives in Biarritz, southwestern France.

This time, Navalny and his colleagues are focusing on a huge yacht that stands out at the port of Marina di Carrara.

The yacht, which bears the same name as the narrator of the One Thousand and One Nights story , has a total construction cost of 75 billion rubles (about 84 billion yen) and a total length of 140 m. A mega yacht with 6 deck floors, 2 vast living quarters, a heliport, a private spa, and a swimming pool. Its huge size is enough to rank 13th in the total length ranking of powered yachts on Wikipedia.

The owner of this yacht was secret, and the crew had a non-disclosure agreement with an offshore company in the Marshall Islands, but Nawarinui and his colleagues had all crew members except the captain from their own crew list in Russia. Make sure you are a person ...

We found that 12 of them belong to the

Federal Protective Service of the Russian Federation , which is in charge of guarding government officials such as the president.

One of the twelve, Alexander Peshukin, was also registered as a procurement officer for another mega-yacht called the Graceful, owned by President Putin. Navalny and his colleagues said, 'The owner of the Sheherazad may be President Putin or his aides,' because a person like Mr. Peshukin who has a strong connection with President Putin is a crew member of the Sheherazad. There is. '

Navalny and his colleagues claim they want to requisition the Sheherazad, calling President Putin a 'hypocrite' who hides his property using clever techniques to avoid sanctions.