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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Kalyeena Makortoff

Mystery Russian superyacht sets sail for the US after Fiji court ruling

superyacht Amadea docked at the Queens Wharf in Lautoka, Fiji
A Fijian court heard that the Amadea sports perishable luxury fittings such as marble, gilded metal, sensitive carpets, silk, precious woods and leathers, teak decking, mirror polished stainless steel and a high gloss paint system. Photograph: Leon Lord/AP

She cost $325m (£258m) to build, and millions more each year to run. When not at sea, the Amadea superyacht requires a crew of 24 deckhands and engineers to keep her shipshape.

In written evidence to a court in Fiji, where the vessel has been the subject of a legal battle over which Russian oligarch she belongs to, her captain listed the costly, and perishable materials: marble, gilded metal fittings, sensitive carpets, silk, precious woods and leathers, teak decking, mirror polished stainless steel and a high gloss paint system.

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