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Jho Low’s superyacht Equanimity of 1MDB notoriety is available for charter as Tranquility, at US$1.25 million a week

  • The 91.5-metre yacht, currently at Le Vieux Port at Cannes on the French Riviera, is available for US$1.25 million a week, not including fuel and extra charges
  • The vessel, bought for US$250 million in 2014, was sold in April to a unit of the Genting Group for less than half the price

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Equanimity, the US$250 million superyacht, has been renamed Tranquility and is available for charter at US$1.25 million a week. Photo: Handout
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Equanimity, the US$250 million superyacht and trophy in one of the world’s biggest financial heists, is now available for charter under its new name Tranquility, after its seizure and subsequent fire sale to one of Malaysia’s wealthiest men.

The 91.5-metre yacht, currently moored at Le Vieux Port at Cannes on the French Riviera, is available for US$1.25 million a week, not including fuel and extra charges, according to its agent Camper & Nicholsons. The vessel is owned by Orient Peace, the Cayman Islands-registered unit of Genting Group, one of Malaysia’s biggest conglomerates with businesses from casinos and cruises to plantations to power plants.

For that price, the client gets a glimpse at the lifestyle of its previous owner Low Taek Jho, better known as Jho Low, whose taste for luxury and lavish parties were the fodder of entertainment headlines from Hong Kong to Hollywood.
“Everything you can think of is found there, and many things that you don’t think about is also there,” Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said in August 2018 during a visit to the yacht that his government had impounded from Low. “It is not really a yacht, but a huge ship.”

Launched by the Dutch builder Oceano in 2014, the vessel’s highlights include a “beach club” with folding platforms at the stern and the sides that drop down to the water, an on-board gymnasium, a massage room, a sauna and a 200-square foot plunge pool. A circular jacuzzi with a clear bottom is on the upper deck, visible from the deck below.

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