The prosecutor suspects Mr Usmanov may have paid a security firm to observe properties in Upper Bavaria - a payment that would have flouted sanctions
German police have raided a lakeside villa tied to Russian-Uzbek oligarch Alisher Usmanov in a bid to seize evidence of tax evasion.
The raid on Wednesday morning follows investigations into money-laundering and violations of EU sanctions by MrMore than 250 officers searched an abandoned villa on Tegernsee lake in the southeast state of Bavaria before going on to raid several properties registered to the oligarch across three states and Hamburg.The oligarch has a net worth of $14.6bn , according to Forbes.
He is an early Facebook investor, a former shareholder in Arsenal football club and gained his wealth from mining and sports. The raids are believed to have targeted a Russian businessman suspected of having used his"extensive and complex network of companies and corporations" to conceal origins of transactions dated between 2017 and 2022, the prosecutor general's office in Frankfurt said.
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