The 67-meter exploration boat, named Garçon, is moored at Falmouth Harbor Marina at the southern tip of the Caribbean island, according to the MarineTraffic database. This month, Antigua said it would impose all US, EU and UK sanctions on Russian entities and individuals. The yacht, which is built to carry helicopters and a “fleet of water toys”, including a submarine and jet ski, serves as a support vessel for megayachts. Ownership of the ship was transferred to a company based in the British Virgin Islands under the name Wenham Overseas Limited in January 2021, according to the shipping database Equasis. Reports at the time indicated that the last known asking price before the sale was € 24 million. According to aircraft registration documents, Wenham owns a private Boeing 787 aircraft that previous press reports had identified as being linked to Abramovich. Abramovich is also mentioned as the owner of Wenham in a private jet ownership database seen by the FT. Abramovich, the billionaire owner of at least two megacities, has been sanctioned by the United Kingdom and the European Union, but none has been imposed by the United States. Ronald Sanders, Antiguan Barbudan’s ambassador to the United States, said his government was investigating yacht ownership and had sought help from the US and UK governments. “We asked for help from other jurisdictions to determine the ownership of the boat. “We did everything we could to see if this thing really belonged to Abramovich,” he said, after being approached by the Financial Times with questions about Garçon’s ownership. “We have consulted widely and we have not reached any answers. “We can not find a link and no one can tell us if there is a link to Abramovich.” Garçon has been managed by Döhle Yachts based in the Isle of Man since August 2021, according to the Equasis archives. A person familiar with the matter told the FT that Döhle had recently resigned from the contract. Döhle did not respond to a request for comment. This person said that the owner Garçon was Abramovich and added that Abramovich may seek to transfer the real ownership of the ship. Abramovich did not respond to a request for comment. Garçon previously belonged to Ukrainian billionaire Yuriy Kosiuk, founder and CEO of MHP, Ukraine’s leading food supplier. Kosiuk also sold his other yacht, an 87-meter boat called the ACE, which Garçon built to support, last year. The MHP declined to comment. The Garçon ‘is capable of accommodating a variety of helicopter models, including a Bell 365 and a handful of water toys such as a 4-person submarine, jet skis and promotions. . . It can accommodate additional crew and has huge amounts of toys and storage space for extra supplies “, according to marketing material from the yacht brokerage Fraser. A superyacht expert described the boat as a “very hard-core exploration yacht”. “It may have its own autonomous uses,” he told the FT. “But what you see a lot more these days is this kind of support yacht that basically follows the big yacht and carries toys, crew and other things.” The location of Abramovic’s superyachts came under control after two of his ships – the 163-meter Eclipse hull and the 140-meter Solaris – sailed to Turkish ports last week. The arrival of ships in Turkey has sparked concerns that the country is becoming a haven for sanctioned oligarchs, given the country’s reluctance to sign sweeping sanctions against Russia. Additional report by Laura Hughes
