{"id":1353,"date":"2022-03-23T09:24:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T09:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/vladimir-putin-owns-superyacht-moored-in-italy-alexei-navalnys-team-claims-new-york-post\/"},"modified":"2022-03-23T09:24:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T09:24:02","slug":"vladimir-putin-owns-superyacht-moored-in-italy-alexei-navalnys-team-claims-new-york-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/23\/vladimir-putin-owns-superyacht-moored-in-italy-alexei-navalnys-team-claims-new-york-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin owns superyacht moored in Italy, Alexei Navalny&#039;s team claims &#8211; New York Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \t\t<button type='submit' class='pushbutton-wide'>Submit<\/button>\t\t<input type='hidden' name='contact-form-id' value='21612047' \/> \t\t<input type='hidden' name='action' value='grunion-contact-form' \/> \t\t<input type='hidden' name='contact-form-hash' value='05c0851fb981f30e498cc1f4887f0592087e5165' \/> \t<br \/> \t\tThanks for contacting us. We&#039;ve received your submission.\t<br \/>A superyacht worth an estimated $700 million that is moored off the western coast of Italy is owned by Russian President Vladimir Putin, an anti-corruption unit of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny claims.<br \/>Nearly half the crew of the Scheherazade are employed by the Federal Security Service, or FSO, which handles security for Putin,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/mystery-yacht-docked-in-italy-is-owned-by-vladimir-putin-activists-claim-90f225fq8\"> the Times of London reported<\/a>, citing a video released by the dissident\u2019s team.<br \/>The Anti-Corruption Foundation, or FBK, of Navalny detailed the allegations in a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/WyYp9xPLa8s\">15-minute video<\/a> on Monday, the day before he was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/22\/putin-critic-alexei-navalny-found-guilty-by-russian-court\/\">convicted of embezzlement <\/a>and sentenced to nine more years in prison.<br \/>The 459-foot-long, German-built vessel has been undergoing repairs at the Marina di Carrara in Tuscany, possibly explaining why it has not fled as other oligarchs\u2019 yachts have amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<br \/>The six-deck superyacht features a swimming pool, a gym, spa and two helicopter pads, according to the news outlet.<br \/>In the last two summers, it has sailed to the Black Sea resort of Sochi, site of the 2014 Winter Olympics and Putin\u2019s summer residence, Bocharov Ruchey, the Times of London reported.<br \/>The FBK said the Scheherazade\u2019s chief officer, Sergey Grishin, was listed in a contact list as \u201cSergey G FSO,\u201d according to the outlet.<br \/>Anatoly Furtel, the bosun \u2014 a crew member in charge of equipment \u2014 was registered at an address in Sochi used by the FSO unit providing protection at Bocharov Ruchey, the Times of London reported, citing leaked databases.<br \/>Furtel\u2019s assistant Alexander Pechurkin also was linked by records to the FSO unit, Navalny\u2019s researchers reportedly claimed. &nbsp;<br \/>\u201cThe same people who take care of Putin in his residences and on his trips, who manage his life, fly together to Italy to work on one of the most expensive yachts in the world,\u201d Navalny ally and journalist Maria Pevchikh said in the video,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/putin-superyacht-russia-italy-b2040925.html\"> the Independent reported<\/a>.<br \/>Italian authorities have not yet announced who owns the Scheherazade, which is masked by multiple offshore companies, according to the Times of London.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/18\/russia-ukraine-news-live-updates-and-coverage-3\/\"><strong>Get the latest<\/strong> <strong>updates<\/strong> <strong>in the Russia-Ukraine conflict with The Post&#8217;s live coverage.<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\u201cBut what really matters is that the real owner of the Scheherazade is guarded by the FSO,\u201d Navalny\u2019s team said.<br \/>The Scheherazade\u2019s British captain, Guy Bennett-Pearce, has denied the allegations about Putin\u2019s ownership, saying the strongman has never even set foot on the vessel.<br \/>\u201cI have never seen him. I have never met him,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/08\/world\/europe\/russia-superyacht-putin-oligarch.html\">he told the New York Times<\/a>.<br \/>The skipper told the Times in a phone interview that the owner was not on any sanctions list. He did not rule out that the owner could be Russian, but cited a \u201cwatertight nondisclosure agreement\u201d in refusing to say more.<br \/>Bennett-Pearce added that he had \u201cno choice\u201d but to provide Italian investigators documents revealing the owner\u2019s identity, saying he had been told they would be handled with \u201cconfidentiality.\u201d<br \/>\u201cI have no doubt in my mind whatsoever that this will clear the vessel of all negative rumors and speculations,\u201d he wrote a Times reporter.<br \/>Three European countries have seized several luxury yachts owned by Russian oligarchs as a result of the latest sanctions against Moscow.<br \/>The confiscated vessels include&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/02\/25\/russias-richest-lost-combined-39b-after-ukraine-invasion\/\">Alexey Mordashov<\/a>\u2019s 213-foot yacht,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/03\/21\/russian-billionaire-sells-stake-in-major-firm-a-day-before-sanctions\/\">Gennady Timchenko<\/a>\u2019s 132-foot watercraft, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2015\/09\/22\/worlds-largest-mega-yacht-turns-heads-with-stealth-design\/\">Audrey Melnichenko<\/a>\u2019s $578 million, 469-foot superyacht \u2014 all seized in Italy, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said recently.<br \/>Spain took possession of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/02\/27\/youtube-accused-of-making-it-too-easy-to-build-killer-drones\/\">Sergei Chemezov<\/a>\u2019s $140 million yacht, while&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/03\/france-seizes-russian-oligarch-igor-sechins-120m-superyacht\/\">Igor Sechin\u2019s 280-foot, $120 million boat<\/a>&nbsp;was impounded in France.<br \/>The seizures are among the West\u2019s latest efforts to hit Putin and those close to him over Russia\u2019s brutal assault against Ukraine, which began on Feb. 24.&nbsp;<br \/>Share Selection<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/22\/vladimir-putin-owns-700-mil-yacht-in-italy-critics-claim\/\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submit Thanks for contacting us. 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A superyacht worth an estimated $700 million that is moored off the western coast of Italy is owned by Russian President Vladimir Putin, an anti-corruption unit of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny claims.Nearly half the crew of the Scheherazade are employed by the Federal Security Service, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}