More than 60 police officers raided a luxury y🎉acht in northern Germany linked to a Russian businessman in connection with alleged breaches of sanctions and money laundering rules, officials said on Tuesday.
The statement by Frankfurt prosecutors identified the suspect only as a 69-year-old Russian businessman. But German weekly Der Spiegel identified him as oligarch Alisher Usmanov, a close ally of President ꦛVladimir Putin.
Frankfurt prosecutors said the suspect of their investigation is alleged to have 🦹conducted several transactions between 2017 and 2022 using a complex network of offshore companies to hide the origin of the 𓂃payments, which amounted to millions of euros.
Usmanov is subject🀅 ꧒to sanctions in the United States and the European Union.
The raid comes the week after state and federal police searched 24 pro🐲perties connected to Usmanov in the German states of Bavaria, Bade🌌n-Wuerttemberg, Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein.
A spokesman with the Frankfurt prosecutor's office confirmed that Tuesday's yacht raid was part of the same investꦇigation.
