More than 60 police officers raided a luxury yacht in northern Germany linked to a Russian businessman in connection with alleged breaches of s♍anctions and money laundering rules, officials said on Tuesday.
The statement by Frankfurt prosecutors iden🍷tified 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 Vladimir Putin.
Frankfurt prosecutors said the suspect of their investigation is alleged to have conducte🍨d several transactions between 2017 ♔and 2022 using a complex network of offshore companies to hide the origin of the payments, which amounted to millions of euros.
Usmanov is subject to sanctions in the 🍨United States and the European Unio♒n.
The raid comes the week after state and federal police search🏅ed 24 properties connected to Usmanov in the German states of Bavaria, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Hamburg and Schl♔eswig-Holstein.
A spokesman with the Frankfurt prosecutor൩'s office confirmed that Tuesday's yacht raid was part of the same investigation.
