Dmitry Medvedev and his family secretly use the $100 million yacht «Universe». About it writes «Project».
The vessel, built by the Dutch bureau Damen Yachting in 2018, has a helipad, a personal office and special communications, and in the territorial waters of Russia it is often accompanied by ships of the Navy.
Investigators claim that the purchase of the yacht was paid for by billionaire Igor Yusufov, close to Medvedev. The owner of the «Universe» was hidden by registering it on the offshore Southerner Ltd in the Cayman Islands.
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Information that the ship is used by a family the former president of Russia, confirms the Turkish spotter Yoruk Yshik, who monitors ships passing through the Bosphorus. An employee of the Sochi marina, where the yacht is now under guard, in a conversation with the «Project» also called it «Medvedev's» and «government».
Investigators write that in the midst of a pandemic in July 2020, Dmitry Medvedev's son Ilya traveled on a yacht in the Mediterranean with the son of Igor Yusufov Maxim.
In March 2017, Alexei Navalny released a large investigation into the elite real estate of the former president of Russia. The politician claimed that Medvedev owns the yacht «Fotinia» worth more than $10 million. After the start of the war with Ukraine, the ship was in the bay of the Finnish city of Kotka and could not leave it because of the frozen Gulf of Finland. The BBC Russian service reported in March that the owner of the yacht Fotinia had changed.