Germany Seizes World’s Largest Yacht

With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Western world continued to impose huge sanctions against Russia, and a new one was announced yesterday. European countries and the United States, henceforth The property of Russian oligarchs will be confiscated. had explained. Following this statement, while the oligarchs were directing their assets such as yachts and planes to safe areas, a news came from Germany today.

Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, who was sanctioned by the European Union on Monday, lost his giant yacht yesterday, according to information obtained by Forbes. According to the news that Forbes based on three sources in the yacht industry, Germany, Usmanov’s 156 meters long yacht named ‘Dilbar’ confiscated in the city of Hamburg.

The yacht was purchased for 600 million dollars.

Usmanov sailed the Dilbar yacht approximately in 2016. 600 million dollars bought it in return. The yacht was built by the German shipbuilder Lürssen over a period of 52 months. The company referred to this yacht as “one of the most challenging and complex yachts ever built, both in size and technology.” The yacht is 15 thousand 917 tons in gross tonnage. It was the largest motor yacht in the world. and was managed by a crew of 96.

In addition, the yacht had the world’s largest swimming pool ever built on a yacht. Also on the yacht two helipads existed. We don’t even need to count the special areas such as sauna, beauty salon and gym inside the yacht.