Luxury yachts linked to sanctioned Russian oligarchs have begun turning off their automatic location tracking system to avoid arrest. It is reported by The Guardian.

Thus, the Alfa Nero yacht, which is considered to be associated with the Russian billionaire Andrey Guryev, was seen in the Caribbean Sea, but it has not appeared on the tracking systems of marine vehicles since March 3.

It is one of at least six yachts linked to British-sanctioned Russian oligarchs who have hidden their whereabouts..

An analysis of the AIS system data showed that the following have already disappeared from it for more than a month:.

The 72m Clio yacht linked to billionaire Oleg Deripaska. The last time she transmitted her location was on April 18 from the Black Sea, not far from Sochi and Novorossiysk.;

70-meter Galactica Super Nova linked to oligarch Vagit Alekperov, former head of Lukoil. The last time she transmitted location data was on March 2 off the coast of Croatia.;

The 140-meter Ocean Victory, associated with oligarch Viktor Rashnikov, did not appear in the system after March 1, when it was moored in the Maldives;

Investigative journalists managed to get in touch with one of the crew members of the yacht owned by the sanctioned oligarch.

He said they were instructed to withhold location information..

As previously reported, in the port of Lautoka in Fiji, local police detained the Amadea yacht worth $ 325 million.. It probably belongs to the Russian senator and one of the oligarchs close to the dictator Vladimir Putin - Suleiman Kerimov.

In turn, the Scheherazade mega-yacht, one of the largest and most expensive yachts in the world, allegedly associated with Russian oligarchs, was arrested by Italian police..