Secret buyer scoops up oligarch's abandoned superyacht for $67 million

The Alfa Nero has been costing more than US$100,000 a month to maintain while it's been berthed in Antigua. (Image: Wikipedia/Orlovic CC BY-SA 3.0)

Bloomberg

Sat, 27 Jul 2024

By Jim Wyss The Alfa Nero superyacht, which has been abandoned in the Caribbean for more than two years, has a new owner.The 81m vessel, complete with a baby grand piano and a swimming pool that turns into a helipad, sold for US$40 million (NZ$67.5m) this month, said Ronald Sanders, Antigua and Barbuda’s ambassador to the US. He declined to name the buyer, citing a confidentiality agreement.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, a...

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