Ask a Russian Oligarch's Superyacht crew anything...

[Allegro_Snapon]

Is Donkey Punch a documetary?

[Arnold Cunningham]

shopper150 said:

Slightly off topic, but a solicitor told me that they’ve been advised to report all transaction involving any Russian individuals or companies. I’m not sure how accurate this information is.

There's a Russian chap that does some work with us occasionally. Or Israeli. Or British. Depending on the passport he uses for ID on that contract.

[Blib]

fblm said:

Of course only having your Russian assets to play with is hardly going to keep any of them from having to look down the side of the sofa for left over caviar.

There's a big difference between pootling around Monaco or Minsk.

[b14]

shopper150 said:

Slightly off topic, but a solicitor told me that they’ve been advised to report all transaction involving any Russian individuals or companies. I’m not sure how accurate this information is.

That might be their firm's policy to report to their risk management team (indeed in our firm our risk team proactively look for this stuff) but no requirement exists to report externally at the moment, unless it is a suspicious transaction, as normal.

[HocusPocus]

I fear OP is well and truly sanctioned or busy paddling the boat to Vladivostock. Bon chance!

[bristolracer]

HocusPocus said:

I fear OP is well and truly sanctioned or busy paddling the boat to Vladivostock. Bon chance!

Perhaps he was bigging himself up and was actually a crew member on the P&O Dover Calais ferry and has found himself ousted from his job!

Seriously, hope all is well for him

[normalbloke]

He’s gone, he’s in the salt mines…

[Arnold Cunningham]

normalbloke said:

He’s gone, he’s in the salt mines…

Maybe the Nickel mine - if you are so inclined, have a read up on the city of Norilsk. One hell of a place - everything about it is extreme.
"Heavy metal pollution near Norilsk is so severe that it has now become economically feasible to mine surface soil, as the soil has acquired such high concentrations of platinum and palladium"

Edited by Arnold Cunningham on Tuesday 22 March 12:18

[Davey S2]

shopper150 said:

Slightly off topic, but a solicitor told me that they’ve been advised to report all transaction involving any Russian individuals or companies. I’m not sure how accurate this information is.

My firm has gone further and shut down our offices in Moscow and St Petersburg.

[dhutch]

Arnold Cunningham said:

"Heavy metal pollution near Norilsk is so severe that it has now become economically feasible to mine surface soil, as the soil has acquired such high concentrations of platinum and palladium"

Wow.

[DanL]

dhutch said:

Arnold Cunningham said:

"Heavy metal pollution near Norilsk is so severe that it has now become economically feasible to mine surface soil, as the soil has acquired such high concentrations of platinum and palladium"

Wow.

So, on the bright side - it’s now so bad it’s worth cleaning up?

[Arnold Cunningham]

It's certainly a "dirty secret" that while we're all buying battery powered cars and generally trying be a little bit more considerate of the environment these days, Norilsk is this polluted. It's the worlds 2nd biggest Nickel mine. Guess what one of the critical metals in an EV is? Nickel.

Average life expectancy in Norilsk is 60. A decade shorter than the Russian average and 2 decades shorter than ours in the UK.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/apr/18/russ...

Edited by Arnold Cunningham on Tuesday 22 March 13:26

[dhutch]

All bonkers.

We use a lot of Nickel sheet at work, our supplies are not from Russia, but as LME has suspended trading on Nickel across the board we cant currently buy any anyway!

[Arnold Cunningham]

Bloomberg reports the LME is trading Nickel again this morning.

[ozzuk]

dhutch said:

All bonkers.

We use a lot of Nickel sheet at work, our supplies are not from Russia, but as LME has suspended trading on Nickel across the board we cant currently buy any anyway!

It's crazy, I work for the world's largest nickel producer and we've never seen pricing like this.

[RobbyJ]

Any word OP, you OK out there? I read all 16 pages till I got to the bit where you vanished.

[normalbloke]

RobbyJ said:

Any word OP, you OK out there? I read all 16 pages till I got to the bit where you vanished.

There’s no signal in the salt mines…

[BrickCounter]

I genuinely hope the OP is okay, even if he is not involved it certainly must be a worrying time.

Hopefully he has just gone to ground, as most of us would probably do in his situation.

[Antony Moxey]

Maybe (hopefully) he’s just busy doing his actual job and has a bunch of guests on board that he might need to prioritise over updating PH!

[RobbyJ]

Antony Moxey said:

Maybe (hopefully) he’s just busy doing his actual job and has a bunch of guests on board that he might need to prioritise over updating PH!

PH must be the priority, always, I'm sure it's in the forum rules somewhere.