Three yacht hitherto remained almost hidden than now secrets I am no longer. Roman Abramovich He is a wellknown enthusiast as well as a wealthy collector of large boats. But who believed that his fleet included “only” the already famous Solaris and darknesscan add three more names to the list: gloriole, Garcon and whisper. The five yachts in total are almost worth a billion dollars. The discovery stems from a Financial Times investigation into the billionaire’s fortune after authorities in the UK and EU attempted to identify all the assets of sanctioned oligarchs.
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Abramovich has already been widely reported as the owner of Solaris and Eclipse, valued at $474 million and $437 million, respectively. But the FT also revealed possession of Halo and Garçon, both of whom have been moored Antigua (and unknown to the government itself). Valuated at $38 million and $20 million respectively, Halo and Garçon are now in danger of being kidnapped.
The yacht with the Italian name
A person familiar with Abramovich’s collection of boats and documents seen by the FT indicated that the oligarch may still be the owner of whisper, the first yacht he bought in 1998, despite news a few years ago that he might have given it to an exwife following their divorce. The owner of the ship is registered in the maritime registers under the name of Vesuvius International Limited, based in British Virgin Islands.
Documents show that this company was dissolved there in 2017, but another Vesuvius International was registered in Jersey that same year. Jerseybased Vesuvius International is owned by Wotton Overseas Holdings Limited. This company, which relocated to Jersey from the Virgin Islands in 2017, also owns a helicopter through a subsidiary, which has been photographed multiple times on Abramovich’s Solaris. Sea tracking services show that whisper It has a value of 11 million dollars and is located in La Ciotat, in the south of France, the same port where the French government last month seized a $116 million superyacht owned by a company linked to Igor Sechin, the head of Russian oil company Rosneft. The management company of Whisper is Blue Ocean Management, a Cyprus based company that also manages Le Grand Bleua 113meter superyacht that Abramovich reportedly gifted to his business partner Eugene Shvidler.