{"id":3299,"date":"2022-03-16T18:33:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T17:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shipspottingmag.com\/barcelona-luxury-yacht-valerie-arrested-in-port-3299\/"},"modified":"2022-03-16T18:57:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T17:57:16","slug":"barcelona-luxury-yacht-valerie-arrested-in-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shipspottingmag.com\/en\/barcelona-luxury-yacht-valerie-arrested-in-port-3299\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona: Alleged oligarch luxury yacht Valerie arrested in port"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row \"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion_builder_column_1_1 fusion-builder-column-0 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last 1_1\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper\" style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;\" data-bg-url=\"\"><div class=\"fusion-text\"><p><strong>Barcelona: Alleged oligarch luxury yacht Valerie arrested in port. The 85-meter yacht is attributed to Sergei Chemezov, head of the Russian armaments company Rostec.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After several luxury yachts were seized by Russian oligarchs in France and Italy, Spanish authorities have now confiscated a yacht attributed to a person close to the Kremlin. The 85-meter-long luxury yacht Valerie, which is estimated to be worth around 135 million euros, was confiscated by the authorities in the port of Barcelona on Monday. Accordingly, it is now being checked whether the luxury yacht belongs to Valerie Sergei Chemesov, the head of the Russian state-owned armaments company Rostec. Chemezov is on the EU sanctions list. In addition, Sergei Viktorovich Chemezov and Vladimir Putin both once worked for the KGB secret service in Dresden.<\/p>\n<h2>Luxury yacht Valerie is owned by a shell company in the Caribbean<\/h2>\n<p>Finding out the true ownership of some yachts is sometimes difficult in practice. As in the case of the 135 million euro yacht Valerie, which was built in 2011 by the L&uuml;rssen shipyard in Bremen. The yacht is flying the flag of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, a small island country in the southern Caribbean (south of St. Lucia, north of Grenada and west of Barbados). The Valerie is owned by a shell company. There is often a complex network of different companies between the real owners and their ships, often also shell companies in tax havens.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, <strong><a title=\"Megayacht Sailing Yacht A (SY A) impounded in Italy\" href=\"https:\/\/shipspottingmag.com\/de\/megayacht-sailing-yacht-a-sy-a-in-italien-beschlagnahmt-3278\/\">Sailing Yacht A, the largest sailing yacht in the world, was confiscated in Italy<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>Videos luxury yacht Valerie<\/h2>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"max-width:800px;max-height:450px;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u7SwiCbF5hs?wmode=transparent&amp;autoplay=0\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-section-separator section-separator triangle\" style=\"border-top:2px solid #f6f6f6;margin-left:-0px;margin-right:-0px;\"><div class=\"divider-candy-arrow top\" style=\"bottom:2px;border-bottom-color: #f6f6f6;\"><\/div><div class=\"divider-candy top\" style=\"top:-22px;border-bottom:1px solid #f6f6f6;border-left:1px solid #f6f6f6;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"max-width:800px;max-height:450px;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aH6nXD4qAIU?wmode=transparent&amp;autoplay=0\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[733,342],"tags":[790,794,788,787,366,765,796,795,793,792,789,791,365],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shipspottingmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shipspottingmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shipspottingmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shipspottingmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shipspottingmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shipspottingmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3301,"href":"https:\/\/shipspottingmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions\/3301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shipspottingmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shipspottingmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shipspottingmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shipspottingmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}