The status of a Russian-owned superyacht in Fiji highlights the thorny legal ground the U.S. is finding itself on as it tries to seize assets of Russian oligarchs around the world as a court on the Pacific island mulls the case.
But Haniff argued the U.S. had jumped the gun. Whatever evidence or suspicions the FBI had about the ship, Haniff argued, they didn’t have the right to take control of it, much less sail it away.
The FBI had linked the Amadea to the Kerimov family through their alleged use of code names while aboard and the purchase of items like a pizza oven and a spa bed. The ship became a target of, launched in March to seize Russian oligarchs’ assets to pressure Russia to end the war. The department said it found a text message on a crew member’s phone: “We’re not going to Russia” followed by a “shush” emoji.
“The conduct of the U.S authorities in Fiji relating to the Amadea has been appalling,” he wrote in a draft which he never filed because the appeals court took up the case. In court documents, the FBI claims Kerimov, an economist and former Russian politician, is the real owner of the Amadea, which is 106 meters long and features a live lobster tank, a hand-painted piano, a swimming pool and and a large helipad.
The U.S. acknowledges that paperwork appears to show Khudainatov is the owner but say he’s also the paper owner of a second and even larger superyacht, the Scheherazade, which has been linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The U.S. question whether Khudainatov could really afford two superyachts worth a total of more than $1 billion.
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