Oligarch’s $750M yacht docked after unpaid crew jumps ship

Published March 9, 2022 2:06pm ET



The 80-member crew of a Russian oligarch‘s superyacht jumped ship after the billionaire was apparently unable to pay wages due to international sanctions prompted by Moscow’s war on Ukraine.

The Dilbar, a 510-foot vessel valued as high as $750 million and owned by metals and mining magnate Alisher Usmanov, is moored in Hamburg after the captain and his crew bolted. Usmanov, a 68-year-old, Uzbekistan-born pal of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is worth an estimated $18 billion, but he was one of several oligarchs to be individually sanctioned by the West.

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