On Wednesday the third of March, Oleg Deripaska, who is the main owner of the aluminum plant Kubal in Sundsvall, had his big yacht, the 73 meter long Clio, moved.

According to tracking sites, it anchored near the Maldives' capital Malé.

The island state has no extradition agreement with the United States.

According to several tracking sites, two more oligarch-owned superyachts have set off for the Maldives in recent days.

Number two of the three oligarchs who control the aluminum plant Kubal, Viktor Vekselberg, has not been able to move his 78-meter-long yacht Tango.

At the end of January, the boat with a price tag of about 1.2 billion was put up at shipyards in Mallorca where it now risks being seized by Spanish authorities. 

Connections to Kubal's parent company

The third Sundsvall oligarch, Leonard Blavatnik's yacht, was seen anchored outside the Bahamas capital Nassau at the end of February.

Blavatnik, who has officially tried to distance himself from Vladimir Putin, is not on a sanctions list today.

There is a fourth oligarch who has had connections to Kubal's parent company.

In 2003, Roman Abramovich sold his stake in Rusal to his partner Oleg Deripaska.

Abramovich is also not yet on any sanctions list.

However, Abramovich has long been accused of having close ties to Vladimir Putin.

The world's second largest

His superyacht, the 164 meter long Eclipse, is considered the world's second largest.

The construction cost is estimated at approximately SEK 12 billion.

It has, among other things, two helicopter pads, two swimming pools and a mini submarine.

On Friday it went to the small island of Sint Maarten in the Caribbean near the British Virgin Islands.

It is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

The four oligarchs are not the only ones who have bought large boats.

According to leaked documents from the Swiss bank Credit Suisse to the Financial Times, the bank's most wealthy customers have borrowed money for superyachts and private jets for around SEK 20 billion.

According to the documents, a number of investors and customers received letters from the bank last week urging them to destroy all documents regarding the yachts and the private jet.

This as an attempt to conceal that the bank has given loans to oligarchs who later ended up on sanction lists.