In Croatia, people were detained who took a sanctioned russian yacht out of the country
30.01.2023 - 12:50
In Croatia, the investigation into the disappearance of a sanctioned russian yacht was completed. The police detained four people.
On January 27, Split police detained eight people for questioning, four were arrested, HRT reports.
Among those detained are the crew members who transported the yacht from Croatia to Turkey. Currently, the investigators are most interested in the details of who financed the transfer of the yacht.
We will remind, the yacht Irina VU of the company of the family of the sanctioned russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov disapeared from the berth in Croatia three months ago. The authorities responsible for the ship “found out” about the incident only in January.
The cost of the Irina VU yacht is about 5 million euros. The 35-meter vessel was registered in 2012 in the Croatian city of Split.
According to MarineTraffic data, the yacht left Betina Marina on October 6. Three days later, on October 9, the ship arrived at the Turkish port of Didim. Since then, the current location of the yacht is unknown.
In January, an almost identical yacht called Betina, which, according to an anonymous source close to the authorities, was supposed to pretend that the sanctioned vessel was still in Croatia.
