The 140-meter-long Solaris departed from the port of Bodrum on Monday morning, according to the Marine Traffic ship monitoring service. Global Ports Holding, a port company listed on the London Stock Exchange, said Sunday it would not receive docking fees from the ship after lawyers told the FT that the company was in danger of violating British sanctions. He insisted, however, that he was not guilty of violating the sanctions because the yacht was docked outside the UK and the company was not allowed to remove a boat from the Turkish state-owned port of Bodrum. The decision of the company, whose co-founder and president is Turkish, to waive the fees for providing a bunk bed to Solaris seemed to be an attempt to protect itself from the category of accepting funds by an individual or entity under sanctions. The company’s audit underscores the challenges facing international companies as they battle the effects of Western sanctions against Russia. The Solaris, which was completed last year and features a helipad and swimming pool, is worth $ 474 million, according to yacht data service VesselsValue. He arrived in Turkey last month after drowning in EU waters in an apparent attempt to avoid being seized by European authorities. Although information on the final owner of the yacht is not publicly available, it has been widely reported that it belongs to Abramovich. The Russian billionaire was among a group of Russian oligarchs targeted by sanctions from the United Kingdom and the European Union last month as Western governments stepped up their efforts to punish Russian President Vladimir Putin and his allies for invading Ukraine. The 55-year-old owner of the Chelsea football team also plays the role of mediator in the peace talks between Kiev and Moscow. Another ship connected to Abramovich, the 163-meter Eclipse, is anchored in the Turkish port of Marmaris. The FT reported last week that the Solaris and Eclipse were among a fleet of five Abramovich-linked yachts worth a combined $ 1 billion.
