Cent more, cent less, it is cost 500 million euros. And 50 (million) are needed for its annual management. The giga yacht Luminance, with its 145 meters in length (and the Cayman Islands flag in plain sight), these days it dominates the quay of the Ichnusa pier.
A pharaonic family profile, for the port of Cagliari: this “boat” for billionaires is was designed by the Monegasque studio of Espen Oino: he is the Swedish designer who also designed the project Crescent, another mega yacht that was at home in the waters in front of via Roma, until it was seized in port in Barcelona because, according to investigations by the Russian Asset Tracker journalistic consortium, coordinated by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, the owner is Eduard Khudainatov: an alleged figurehead for Vladimir Putin.
The owner of Luminance, however, according to the New York Times, comes from the other side of the fence: he is the Ukrainian billionaire Rinat Akhmetov, considered the richest oligarch in the country led by Volodymyr Zelensky. Akhmetov built his empire through investment holdings System Capital Managementwhich has interests in the steel sector (he also owns the Mariupol steelworks, the scene of ferocious clashes between the Russians and the Azov battalion), energy and the real estate sector. He is also president of Shakhtar Donetsk, Ukrainian football team.
And at the beginning of last year the oligarch decided to give himself the gift of the Luminance: at the moment it is not known for how long this gigantic floating ultra-luxury villa will be stationed in Cagliari.
(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)
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