The oligarch is suspected of violating trade laws, money laundering and tax evasion.
Usmanov is considered one of the richest Russians and a friend of Putin. According to Spiegel, investigators are looking for billionaire Alisher Usmanov’s villas on Lake Tegernsee. It is about tax evasion and money laundering.
For months, investigators have been collecting information about one of the richest people in Russia, now they raided his house in Bavaria. Officials from the Federal Criminal Police Department and the Department of Tax Investigations are currently searching for several properties belonging to a Russian billionaire and Putin supporter.
Special forces of the federal police in the morning gained access to three residential buildings in Rottach-Egern, and also took over the local camp. Journalists in the area watched as police surrounded the building with loud shouts and machine guns. For several minutes they tried to open the locked door. A spokesman for the Munich prosecutor’s office said that 250 emergency services took part in the action, a total of 24 objects were searched.
The aim of the raid is to find evidence in the previously closed cases against Usmanov on suspicion of violating the Law on Foreign Trade, money laundering and tax evasion. Unofficially, the publication found that for the period from 2014 to 2022, Usmanov in Germany could avoid paying taxes on income and gifts for 555 million euros.
After the start of Russia’s aggressive war against Ukraine, Usmanov was included in the sanctions list of the European Union and is currently abroad. In early March, German authorities arrested the billionaire’s 156-meter yacht in Hamburg
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Source: korrespondent
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