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The Russian oligarchs they try to save theirs mega-yacht from Western sanctions. The idea is to make ‘invisible’ the boats by deactivating the automatic identification system (AIS) on board, which allows you to know the exact position of any boat that uses it at any time (archive photo)
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As the British Sunday writes in an investigation Observer, at least 6 super yachts linked to oligarchs hit by the London sanctions have become ‘invisible’ to ocean tracking systems (archive photo)
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The AIS system can be disabled for legitimate reasonsbut observers believe that in this case the intention is precisely that of escape sanctions (archive photo)
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According to the analysis ofObserver of AIS data collected by maritime and aviation market intelligence firm VesselsValue, superyachts that have now been ‘invisible’ for more than a month include the Clio from 72 meters linked to the industrialist Oleg Deripaska, the Galactica Super Nova from 70 meters linked to the oligarch Vagit Alekperov andOcean Victory from 140 meters linked to oligarch Viktor Rashnikov (in the picture)
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Sam Tucker of VesselsValue said: “There are some boats from which we used to have a signal every few minutes, but now we see holes of months. a hidden mode ” (archive photo)
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Approximately 9,300 super yachtsworth about 60 billion euros, sail the seas of the world, and it is estimated that about 10% of this fleet is owned by Russians (in the photo, the Ocean Victory)
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In the investigation it is then specified that none of the oligarchs linked to the 6 yachts in question wanted to comment on the situation (archive photo)
Source-tg24.sky.it