The Alfa Nero superyacht, which has been abandoned in the Caribbean for more than two years, has a new owner. The 81-metre vessel, complete with a baby grand piano and a swimming pool that turns into a helipad, sold for $US40 million ($60 million) last week, said Ronald Sanders, Antigua and Barbuda’s ambassador to the US. He declined to name the buyer, citing a confidentiality agreement.
Russian oligarch Andrey Guryev abandoned the luxury yacht in Antigua in March 2022, after being sanctioned by the US Treasury. Credit: Internet The sale marks the latest attempt to end the years-long Alfa Nero saga. A Russian oligarch abandoned the luxury yacht in Antigua in March 2022, after being sanctioned by the US Treasury.
Then tech billionaire Eric Schmidt tried buying it at auction , only to give up when the sale became a legal quagmire. Meanwhile, the vessel sat in Antigua’s Falmouth Harbour being tended to by a skeleton crew and costing over a $US100,000 a month to maintain. At $US40 million, the new Alfa Nero owner will end up paying far less than the $US67.
6 million that Schmidt, a former Google CEO, had offered last year. Sanctioned Russian fertiliser billionaire Andrey Guryev had originally bought the Alfa Nero in 2014 for $US120 million, the US Treasury Department said — which Guryev denies. His daughter, Yulia Gurieva-Motlokhov, later stepped forward to claim ownership of the yacht, triggering a legal dispute.
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