Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt purchased the Alfa Nero superyacht that was ditched in Antigua in March 2022 after Russian troops invaded Ukraine.
The billionaire “received the public sale this morning in a totally clear course of,” shopping for the vessel for $67.6 million, in accordance with Sir Ronald Sanders, Antigua’s ambassador to the US.
The 267-foot vessel, full with a child grand piano and a swimming pool that turns right into a helipad, was deserted in Antigua’s Falmouth Harbour after the US Treasury sanctioned Russian fertilizer billionaire Andrey Guryev. The division final yr mentioned he purchased the Alfa Nero in 2014 for $120 million — which he denies.
Schmidt’s basis didn’t reply to a request for remark.
The Alfa Nero was auctioned Friday even after Guryev’s daughter filed a last-minute injunction claiming the yacht was hers, Antigua Port Supervisor Darwin Telemaque mentioned in an interview.
Among the proceeds will cowl upkeep and different payments that the Alfa Nero has piled up whereas within the harbor, with crew bills alone working $112,000 a month. Telemaque mentioned the sale value would cowl “all liabilities.”
Since Russia’s invasion in February 2022, the US and its allies have imposed sanctions on lots of the nation’s wealthiest folks, inflicting greater than two dozen superyachts price about $4 billion to be frozen in ports world wide.
Schmidt, who served as Google’s chief govt for a few decade, has an estimated web price of $25 billion, in accordance with the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Two years in the past he was named chair of the Broad Institute, a analysis group primarily based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
