The Spanish authorities detained Igor Sechin's yacht for $ 600 million - Reuters

The Spanish authorities detained a yacht called Crescent (“crescent”), which is supposed to belong to the sanctions to the executive director of Rosneft Igor Sichin, Reuters reports with reference to the police source.

According to Marine Traffic, a 135-meter yacht, which specialized publications call one of the largest in the world, arrived in Spain from Italy in November 2021. Its approximate cost is about $ 600 million.

The Ministry of Transport of Spain confirmed the detention, but not ownership and stated that on November 2, the yacht moored in the Mediterranean port city of Tarragon and requested permission from the coast guard for swimming on March 4, but did not sail.

Earlier it was reported that in France they arrested another yacht Sechin, “Amore Vero”. Its cost is about $ 100 million. Earlier, the yacht bore another name: “St. Princess Olga-“Holy Princess Olga”, in 2016 it included the number of the largest yachts in the world, occupying an honorable 72nd place in this list.

The estimated value of the vessel is $ 190 million. The New Gazeta wrote that the former name of the yacht refers to the name of Olga Rozhkova, the second wife of Sechin. The ship received a new name after the divorce of the spouses divorce in mid -2017. Her new name translated from Italian means "true love."

On Tuesday, the major authorities detained the Lady Anastasia yacht belonging to the Russian oligarch Alexander Mikheev, under the sanctions of the European Union. On Monday, they detained Valerie, who was under repair at a shipyard in Barcelona and associated with the head of the Russian aerospace and defense conglomerate, Rostec Sergey Chemezov.