The United States found an object resembling a Faberge egg on board the arrested yacht of a Russian businessman. An authentic egg can cost millions of dollars. The US does not disclose the yacht itself and its owner, but we can talk about the Amadea boat, the owner of which Washington considers a billionaire Suleiman Kerimov
On board the yacht of a Russian businessman arrested in Fiji, an object resembling a Faberge egg was found. This was stated by First Deputy Minister of Justice – US Attorney General Lisa Monaco, reports The Guardian.
“We find really interesting things [на арестованных яхтах].
She did not specify which yacht in question, but noted that the ship is now moored in San Diego Bay, where it arrived from Fiji in June. On June 7, the Fiji Supreme Court allowed the United States to remove the Amadea superyacht from the island, which was detained at the request of Washington. At the end of last month, she was taken to San Diego, The Guardian notes.
US authorities believe the ship belongs to sanctioned Russian billionaire Suleiman Kerimov. The official owner of the yacht is registered in the Cayman Islands Millemarin Investments – claims that the ship does not belong to Kerimov, and previously demanded that the issuance of the ship to the United States be postponed.
Bloomberg reported with reference to the prosecutor’s office of the island. […] The Amadea yacht, valued at $325 million, arrived in Fiji on April 12, after an 18-day passage from Mexico, Bloomberg describes, citing data collected. A week later, the island authorities detained the ship at the request of the United States. Washington believes that the beneficiary of the yacht is Suleiman Kerimov, who is under sanctions.
In early May, a Fiji court upheld Washington’s request to seize the yacht. In order to produce it, the United States sent marshals, the FBI and the Coast Guard to Fiji. At the end of May, they boarded Amadea, replacing the crew of the ship, Bloomberg writes, citing case files. The former capital of the yacht, Briton John Walsh, who, along with the crew, was ordered to go ashore, in his sworn testimony stated that the Americans were preparing the departure of Amadea from the waters of Fiji.
The official owner of the yacht is Millemarin Investments Ltd, registered in the Cayman Islands. filed a complaint challenging Fiji’s right to transfer Amadea to the US. The company’s lawyer during the hearing in court said that according to the laws of Fiji, local authorities can detain the ship, but cannot transfer it to another country. Millemarin Investments also claims that the ship does not belong to Kerimov. — Inset K.ru
Novye Izvestiya, 07/21/2022, “Faberge Egg found on one of the confiscated superyachts of Russian oligarchs”: According to the documents, the founder of the trust, which owns the yacht through offshore companies, is an oil businessman Eduard Khudainatov. In reality, however, according to the US Department of Justice, the ship belongs to one of Russia’s richest men, gold tycoon Suleiman Kerimov, who is now under Western sanctions. As evidence, the American authorities cite surveys of Amadea crew members and yacht industry experts conducted by FBI agents: they confirmed the hypothesis that Kerimov has owned the yacht since the fall of 2021. According to the crew members, the guests of the yacht were known to them only by code names. However, when they were shown a photo of Kerimov’s family, the crew confirmed that these people were vacationing on the yacht in February of this year: Kerimov was called G-0, and his wife was G-1. […]
The court jeweler Carl Faberge began creating eggs in 1885, when Alexander III commissioned him to make a gift for his wife. This became a tradition for the imperial family, and over the next three decades, Faberge created precious eggs for the Romanovs. A total of 50 eggs were created, some of which were subsequently lost. — Inset K.ru
RTVi.com, 07/21/2022, “A possible original Faberge egg was found on the arrested yacht of a Russian businessman”: The yacht Amadea, detained in Fiji at the request of the US authorities, is decorated with marble and elite woods, reports The Guardian, citing the words of the captain. To maintain proper condition, 24 crew members had to be on board at all times. According to the captain, the yacht needs maintenance, which costs $1.1 million a month. — Inset K.ru
If the authenticity of the found egg is confirmed, its value could be “millions of dollars”, Monaco said. Jeweler Carl Faberge created only 50 eggs for the Russian imperial family and not all of them have survived, The Guardian notes.
“We are working with our law enforcement colleagues around the world to search these yachts to make sure we have the authority to go to court, arrest them and then confiscate the proceeds,” Monaco said, adding that supports the idea of confiscation of profits from seized assets, including for the restoration of Ukraine.
IA “RBC”, 07/21/2022, “The United States found a Faberge egg on the detained yacht of a Russian businessman”: Monaco did not specify which yacht they are talking about, but said that the ship arrived from Fiji in June and is now moored in San Diego Bay. As the Guardian recalled, last month the Amadea superyacht, which was arrested in Fiji at the request of the United States, was delivered there. The American authorities believe that the ship is connected with the Russian billionaire and senator Suleiman Kerimov (Forbes estimates the fortune of Kerimov and his family at $ 13.1 billion), who fell under sanctions.
Officially, the yacht belongs to the company Millemarin Investments, registered in the Cayman Islands. According to lawyer Faizal Haniff, who represents the interests of the company, the ship has nothing to do with Kerimov and belongs to another Russian businessman, the owner of NNK-Oil, Eduard Khudainatov, who is not on the sanctions list (the EU imposed sanctions against Khudainatov, the United States did not impose restrictions). RBC sent a request to NNK-OIL JSC.
Kerimov’s assistant Alexei Krasovsky, in turn, told RBC that “deputies and senators have long been filing declarations about their property.” “All the property of Suleiman Abusaidovich is also indicated in the declaration,” he said. — Inset K.ru
@tikandelaki, 21.07.2022 16:34: Suleiman has such a yacht that they have been looking for an egg for a month) – Inset K.ru