ItalyROME, Mar 12The Italian Financial Guard seized a yacht belonging to the assets of Andrey Melnichenko, the former main beneficiary of the international fertilizer producer Eurochem and the SUEK coal energy company, worth over half a billion euros, sources in the Italian law enforcement agency told RIA Novosti. Yacht «A» with a displacement of almost 13 thousand tons is considered the largest motosailer in the world. She was launched in 2008 in German Kiel. The vessel was designed by French industrial designer Philippe Starck. «In addition to what has already been reported in recent days, a vessel worth about 530 million euros, which is parked in the port of Trieste, which belongs to the property of Andrei Igorevich Melnichenko, which is under sanctions, has been frozen,» — In early March, RIA Novosti, based on data from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index (BBI), calculated that Melnichenko ranked sixth on the list of Russian billionaires. His fortune grew by $1.99 billion, to $19.5 billion. On March 10, SUEK announced that Andrei Melnichenko, who was on the EU sanctions list, had resigned from the board of directors of the coal company. SUEK is one of the leading coal mining and energy companies in the world, the largest in Russia coal producer, the largest supplier of coal to the domestic market and for export, one of the main producers of heat and electricity in the country. Mining, processing, energy, transport and service enterprises of the company are located in 12 constituent entities of the Russian Federation. On March 9, Melnichenko left the board of directors and ceased to be the main beneficiary of EuroChem. EuroChem Holding was founded in 2001. Its enterprises produce mainly nitrogen and phosphate fertilizers. Previously, Melnichenko controlled AIM Capital, which owned 90% of the authorized capital of EuroChem Group AG (the parent company of the group). The remaining 10% of the authorized capital belongs to a subsidiary of the group. «The mineral and chemical company Eurochem manages the Russian assets of the EuroChem Group. A week ago, the Italian Financial Guard seized the assets of Russians who fell under EU sanctions in connection with the aggravation in Ukraine. The list received by RIA Novosti contains five positions by almost 140 These are villas associated with businessman Alisher Usmanov in Sardinia, Oleg Savchenko in Tuscany and TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov on Lake Como, and yachts owned by Alexei Mordashov and Gennady Timchenko.
Three Russian ships and one yacht were detained in France
