The 115 meter long yacht is in the dockyard in Hamburg.
(Photo: IMAGO/Stephan Wallocha)
Hamburg A month after the “Dilbar”, the German authorities arrested another luxury yacht, the “Luna”, on the basis of the EU sanctions against Russia. The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) has determined the actual ownership of the yacht, and the owner has been on the European Union’s sanctions list since April 8, a BKA spokesman said on Friday on request. The authority did not name a name in the message, but gave the name Farkhad Akhmedov on the short message service Twitter.
According to the EU sanctions list, Akhmedov (66) is a Russian businessman active in the energy sector and in Russian local politics. “He is close to the Kremlin and is a leading businessman and active in sectors of the economy that serve as an important source of income for the government of the Russian Federation,” the sanctions list reads.
“The luxury yacht M/S Luna is therefore subject to sanctions law and could be legally fixed or frozen in the port of Hamburg,” says the BKA statement. This means that the yacht is not allowed to leave the port permanently, but is “not able to go out to sea anyway for technical reasons”.
The estimated value of the ship is given by the Federal Criminal Police Office at around 400 million euros. Several media had previously reported on the fixing of the “Luna”.
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In mid-April, the authorities had already arrested the luxury yacht “Dilbar”, which was also in the port of Hamburg. In concrete terms, the “freezing of economic resources” like the “Luna” according to EU regulations means that the yachts cannot be used for services, but neither can they be sold, rented or encumbered.
However, the yacht was “not confiscated or secured by the German authorities”.
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