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WEGA - IMO 8434104
motor yacht, former Dutch pilot cutter
887gt
built 1968 A Vuijk & Zonen's Scheepswerven NV, Capelle a/d IJssel (Yd 822)
Pegasus Ltd, Antigua (ATG flag)
(Pierre Paul Vanderbroucke, Belgium)
Arrived Rio de Janeiro 2004, ostensibly for repairs, but converted for commercial charter cruising.
Arrested 2006 by fiscal authorities for illegal importation and under-declaration of custom value. Owner condemned in absentia to 9 years in jail and vessel confiscated. She has since lain at the Arsenal da Marinha at Rio de Janeiro. Plans in 2011 to convert her to a naval training vessel seems to have come to nought.
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