Largest in the world, Germany marks the superfluous of Russian oligarch's sister

Usnovo, is known as one of Putin's favourite “togarks, he is 68 years old and is the former partial owner of the Arsenal football club, which was sanctioned by the EU on 28 February and by the UK and the US last month.

Foreign media suggest Dilbar, a superjath about 512m long, is among the largest in the world. He was seized at a shipyard in Hamburg where he was undergoing repairs, German police said.

Meanwhile, the crew was fired immediately after the seizure. It is also reported that the yacht may have cost 493 million pounds and was marketed in 2016, the yacht is flagged in the kyman Islands and registered to a holing company in Malta, two bank paradises where the ultra-rich global ones often defend their wealth.

The federal criminal police office in Germany said yesterday that despite the “open sea hiding” it could determine that Usnovo had “indirectly transferred assets” his sister Gulbakor Ismailova.

Meanwhile, a German government spokesman has declared the yacht cannot be sold or rented, or sent for collateral. According to the media after the United Kingdom imposed sanctions on the metal tycoon, a spokesman for Usnovo said he was no longer the legal owner of much of his assets.

He owns an 82 million-pound house in London and his residence in Surrey, Sutton Place, near Guildford, was said to have been put on the trust linked to the oligarch. The British government estimates that Usnovo is worth about 14 billion pounds of interest in metals, mines and telecoms. The EU said it was referred to as one of Vladimir Putin's favourite oligarchs.

Wesnow's largest yacht, Dilbar, bears his mother's name, inside it is a pool of the largest ever installed on a yacht, two helicopters, a beauty salon and 24 passengers' room in 12 suites. /Abcnea. al