67 million dollars! Former Google CEO Schmidt spent a lot of money on superyachts "abandoned" by Russian tycoons

CTOnews.com June 19 news, according to Boat International and other media reports, last Friday billionaire, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Eric Schmidt sold $67.6 million at auction.(CTOnews.com Note: Currently about 482 million yuan), a 267-foot (81-meter) superyacht "Alfa Nero" was photographed, which was "abandoned" by Andrey Guryev, a Russian tycoon sanctioned by the United States, in Antigua Bay.

Guleyev is a fertilizer tycoon who was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department last year. According to Bloomberg, Guleyev's daughter had tried to block the auction, claiming she was the yacht's owner. But this contradicts what Guleyev's legal representative said in March, when he said: "Guleyev neither owns nor controls Alpha Nero, he only occasionally uses the ship on a commercial lease since 2014." "

Antigua and Barbuda Port Authority revealed the deal in a statement, and Antigua's ambassador to the United States, Ronald Sanders, confirmed the buyer was Schmidt. Schmidt is Google's former CEO, holding the position from 2001 to 2011 and stepping down as chairman of Google's parent company Alphabet in 2018. Bloomberg's Billionaires Index puts him at No. 60, with a net worth of about $25 billion (currently about 178.25 billion yuan).

Antigua authorities are eager to sell the yacht because it costs more than $110,000 a month to maintain moored in Falmouth Harbor. It is understood that part of the proceeds from the auction will be used to pay the captain, crew and suppliers of Alpha Nero.