Authorities in Antigua and Barbuda are going to auction a yacht allegedly owned by Russian oligarch Andrei Guryev and valued at $81 million. It is reported by The Guardian, citing a statement from the office of Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne..

" If the ship's owner does not show up within this period, the government of Antigua and Barbuda will sell it to the highest bidder,"

In turn, the Minister of Information, Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Information Technology of Antigua and Barbuda, Melford Nicholas, said that the yacht has been abandoned in the port of Falmouth since February 2022..

According to the US Treasury Department, Alfa Nero was acquired by Guryev, who is on the US and British sanctions lists, in 2014 for $120 million..

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Andrey Guryev - Russian billionaire, former CEO of PhosAgro, politician, from 2001 to 2013 - member of the Federation Council from the Murmansk region.

Included in the Forbes magazine rating since 2005. In 2020, Forbes magazine estimated Guryev's fortune at $4.1 billion.. In the ranking of the richest people in Russia, he takes 25th place.

Recall, the US Department of the Treasury charged two businessmen with facilitating sanctions evasion and money laundering in relation to the yacht of the sanctioned Russian billionaire oligarch Viktor Vekselberg worth $ 90 million. 51-year-old Russian Vladislav Osipov and 52-year-old Briton Richard Masters "