Saudi Sela Group offers US$6 million to Brazil for São Paulo aircraft carrier

A new installment of the São Paulo aircraft carrier saga.

A few hours after the Brazilian Navy officially communicated that, despite the environmental consequences, the fate of its former flagship would be at the bottom of the sea, the Saudi group Sela sent an offer to the Ministry of Defense to take over the hull of the vessel for 30 million reais (US%5.9 million).

The Saudi proposal, submitted through the firm Bahov Associados, also includes a novel way of transporting the aircraft carrier from the Brazilian coast to the Persian Gulf: a submersible freighter contracted and paid for by the Arab group.

Once at the destination, the vessel would be dismantled by the company dedicated to constructing large-scale infrastructures.

The Saudi offer comes at a time when the Brazilian Navy is being criticized for the environmental impact of the possible sinking of the ship.

There is also no shortage of complaints about the behavior of the Sök company and the Turkish government, which only changed its mind about the arrival of the aircraft carrier on its territory after intense popular pressure, which generated a heated political confrontation between the Turkish opposition and the administration of Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Before this happened, the hull was a good deal, and the documentation/inventory was endorsed as correct by the Turkish government, agencies, and the Brazilian Navy and Government.

After this internal pressure in Turkey, the situation changed completely, reaching today with this strange situation in which Brazil washes its hands; the Turks say they were wronged.

A millionaire Saudi group says it will buy the hull for cash and transport it to the Persian Gulf without the need for the hull to float.

Behind the scenes of this Saudi offer, the comment from people close to it is that cash is no problem to make it happen.

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