“Up to 30 percent of dirty money ends up in real estate’: How criminals cause prices to explode. Around 100 billion euros are laundered in this country every year.
Money launderers usually benefit when real estate is as expensive as possible. This allows them to launder large sums of money. Russian oligarchs, for example, also buy noble properties in Berlin and other cities in order to get money from dubious sources. So far in Germany it has been difficult to arrest real estate owners.