Kerimov’s yacht, seized in the United States, was bought by a UAE developer, Trump’s business partner, who sells real estate to the Russian elite.

The new owner is likely to be the family of billionaire Hussein Sajwani

The new owners of the 106-meter yacht Amadea of ​​Senator Suleiman Kerimov, which the US authorities sold at auction on September 10 after its arrest, were probably the family of billionaire Hussein Sajwani, Vorstka found out.

According to the Equasis marine vessel database, the new owner of the yacht since October 10 is the company Beyond Holdings Group LTD from the British Virgin Islands. This is an offshore jurisdiction that does not disclose the beneficiaries of legal entities, however, based on indirect evidence, “Verstka” was able to establish a connection between the company and the Sajwani family.

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The company that bought the yacht is registered in Sajwani's office complex, and its name previously included the businessman's initials

So, until March of this year, Beyond Holdings Group was called AHS Four Company. She changed her name 18 days after a court in New York denied the right to own Amadea to the ex-head of Rosneft, Eduard Khudainatov . US prosecutors called him a fake owner trying to prevent the yacht from being confiscated. This started the process of selling the yacht at auction.

AHS is an acronym for Abbas Hussain Sajwani's son. In addition, Abbas Sajwani is the founder of the almost eponymous company AHS Properties, an ultra-luxury boutique developer.

AHS Four Company listed its headquarters as the Executive Heights building in Dubai's Barsha Heights. This is an office complex created by Damac, which is the main asset of the Sajwani family.

In addition, from October 10, Superyacht Partners SARL from Monaco became the new ship manager of Amadea. According to Equasis, in addition to Amadea, the firm operates six other superyachts, one of which is Abbas Sajwani's AHS .

Hussein Sajwani - friend and partner of Donald Trump

The businessman founded the DAMAC Group, one of the largest private holdings in the Middle East. This company is engaged in the construction of luxury real estate in the Gulf countries, as well as the USA and Great Britain.

Sajwani is known to have attended Trump's inauguration in 2017. Trump himself called Sajwani a “friend” and a “great man” and his family “wonderful people.” In documents filed with the Federal Election Commission in 2017, Trump said he made up to $5 million from a licensing deal with Damac. That same year, Damac opened the Trump International Golf Club in Dubai.

After being elected president in 2024, Trump invited Sajwani to the United States. They held a press conference at which they announced that Damac would invest $20 billion in creating data centers in the states.

Rich Russians are also buying Damac housing. Thus, in October 2023, eight apartments in the Dubai DAMAC Bay complex were purchased by Alisher Usmanov’s ex-wife Irina Viner, Sirena wrote . This seaside property with a total area of ​​788 square meters cost her approximately 800 million rubles. And in 2022, 12 apartments in the skyscrapers under construction by Damac were bought by the family of State Duma deputy Alexander Prokopyev.

Suleiman Kerimov's yacht was estimated at $230–300 million

The yacht Amadea was seized in Fiji in April 2022 after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The arrest decision stated that documents confirming financial transactions that violated the US sanctions regime were found on the yacht. Then it turned out that the annual maintenance of the yacht cost 25–30 million dollars.

In the court that was considering the issue of arresting the vessel, it became known that the yacht was formally registered in the offshores of the former head of Rosneft, Eduard Khudainatov, who is also the nominal owner of Vladimir Putin’s Scheherazade yacht. However, the FBI agent's affidavit said that members of the Kerimov family requested changes to the Amadea's design, which proves their ownership of the vessel, not a lease.

After the yacht was transferred to the United States, Khudainatov tried to prove ownership of the vessel in court, but lost the case. As a result, the yacht was put up for auction. According to the US Department of Justice, the cost of Amadea reached $300 million, but the latest independent assessment reduced it to $230 million. It is unknown how much the yacht was eventually sold for.

Let us recall that earlier “Verstka” talked about what happened to the fleet of superyachts of Russian politically exposed persons and businessmen after the invasion of Ukraine and the imposition of sanctions on them.

Photo: Yacht Amadea. marinetraffic.com

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