The $300 million yacht Amadea has arrived in Hawaii, according to ship-tracking resource Refinitiv Eikon.. She was arrested in Fiji last month at the request of US authorities who claim she belongs to sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov, Voice of America reports..
US Department of Justice Task Force KleptoCapture Focused on Seizing Yachts and Other Luxuries of Russian Oligarchs in an attempt to pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine.
The 106-meter (350-foot) yacht left the port of Lautoka in Fiji last week after the Pacific island nation's Supreme Court ruled that the yacht must leave the country because it cost the government dearly to maintain it. Refinitiv data shows the ship docked at the port of Honolulu on Thursday afternoon.
On April 13, the ship arrived from Mexico without any permission to Fiji to take shelter from the storm, where it was detained.
Recall that in early May, the Italian police arrested the Scheherazade mega-yacht, one of the largest and most expensive yachts in the world, which, according to media reports, belongs to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Earlier, the Tango yacht owned by businessman Viktor Vekselberg was arrested in Spain. In Italy, the yacht of Gennady Timchenko, who owns shares in the Sibur petrochemical company, was arrested. The yacht of Alexei Mordashov, the head of Severstal, was also detained there..
In addition, the yacht of the founder of the Motiv mobile operator Vitaly Kochetkov was arrested in the UK..
In Gibraltar, the yacht of the head of the Pipe Metallurgical Company, Dmitry Pumpyansky, was arrested.
Finally, in March, Spain temporarily arrested the yacht of Russian oligarch Sergei Chemezov, head of Rostec and a former KGB officer..
Luxury yachts linked to sanctioned Russian oligarchs have begun turning off automatic location tracking systems to avoid arrest. The owners hide them in the ports of states that have not joined the sanctions against Russia, which unleashed a large-scale war against Ukraine.