A court in Finland has left Russian oligarch Khudainatov’s yacht under arrest

The arrest imposed in 2022 on suspicion of ties to a sanctioned oligarch remained in force.

A Finnish court has refused to lift the arrest of the luxury yacht Divina Barbara, which, according to investigators, belongs to Russian oligarch Eduard Khudainatov, the former head of Rosneft and close to Vladimir Putin. Yle writes about this.

The Pirkanmaa District Court rejected the claim of a Swiss-Belgian businessman who tried to challenge the confiscation of the vessel. He claimed that he was the real owner of the 35-meter yacht, and Khudainatov allegedly had no connection to it.

However, the court concluded that the documents provided indicate a complex ownership structure for the yacht, similar to schemes to hide the real owner.

Divina Barbara is not the first yacht to be associated with Khudainatov. Previously, he tried to prove his ownership of the superyacht Amadea, which the US considers an asset of another Kremlin oligarch, Suleiman Kerimov.

Also earlier, the former head of ARMA told how the Defense Intelligence prevented an attempt to hijack Medvedchuk’s yacht.