PONANT sued after cancellation of elite Arctic cruise
The luxury French-flagged cruise line, PONANT, has cancelled a lucrative charter aboard Le Commandant Charcot, allegedly because of the arrest of the payment broker acting on behalf of a Russian travel agency that had booked a group of 150 highly-placed Russian passengers on an exclusive voyage.
A report in the long-established, highly-respected British newspaper, Financial Times (FT), under the headline “Crypto scandal sinks Russian elite’s $8.5mn polar party cruise”, also states that the Russian-owned, Dubai-based travel agency, TRVL, who chartered the vessel has initiated a lawsuit alleging PONANT has failed to refund it $5.8m of the total $8.5m chartering cost after the collapse of the high-end trip.
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