Oligarch Alisher Usmanow left Rottach-Egern after the start of the Russian war of aggression.
But he seems to be thinking of returning.
Rottach-Egern –
Even if he fled his villas in Rottach-Egern with Putin's invasion of Ukraine, the Russian oligarch, valued at a good 15 billion dollars, apparently longs for the end of the EU sanctions: the Uzbek Alisher Usmanow (68).
As reported several times, he owns four properties on the southern shore of Lake Tegernsee.
All were acquired through straw men and mailbox companies in the tax haven of the Isle of Man. With the new buildings on two plots of land, Usmanow may have invested a good 50 million euros in Rottach-Egern.
The existing contracts alone suggest this.
How Usmanow discovered his love for Lake Tegernsee, he now revealed to the weekly magazine Die ZEIT.
He first came to the valley more than a decade ago for several complicated eye surgeries, he says through a spokesman.
He was not able to travel much at the time and "closed the place to his heart".
He is confident of returning to Tegernsee "as soon as the restrictions imposed on him have been lifted," writes Die ZEIT.
Villas were guest houses
Although he has taken Rottach-Egern to his heart, little is known about his stays here behind high hedges.
He hardly ever went on excursions, says someone who knows Usmanow but wants to remain anonymous.
The heavyweight entrepreneur usually moved with about five bodyguards in the immediate vicinity of his villa on Fischerstrasse.
But he didn't stay there at all, but in suites in the nearby luxury hotel in Egerner Bay.
From there, the food was brought in a regular shuttle service with luxury limousines.
"Usmanov's villas were just his guest houses," someone from the neighborhood knows.
Only one woman, the housekeeper, was allowed to drive into the well-secured 4520 square meter property.
She should have taken care of the arising activities.
The same is said about the trips to pick up guests from Munich Airport.
Usmanow's fleet, equipped with leased luxury cars, was not used for such tasks, but a special taxi driver in Rottach-Egern is said to have made good money from it.
Known as a reliable client
Those golden days are now over, at least for the time being.
Some had a good job with Usmanow for a long time.
Whether as a gardener, cleaner or craft companies.
With the latter, however, there are still a few hundred thousand euros in the fire.
You should be eagerly awaiting his return.
Because Usmanow is said to have been a reliable client through his confidants.
"He always paid on time," said his contractors in unison.
It remains to be said that the oligarch did not end up on the EU sanctions list without reason.
The EU authorities see him as "an oligarch particularly favored by Putin".
He belongs to a circle of Russian businessmen who "were entrusted with the management of financial flows".
In this capacity he served as a "straw man" for President Vladimir Putin.
lawsuit against sanctions
According to Die ZEIT, Usmanov describes the sanctions against him as "unfair" and based on "false allegations".
He was never close to Putin and never managed money for him.
When asked, he told ZEIT that he had placed the property in a family trust with which he had no legal relationship.
He now wants to appeal against the measures before the Court of Justice of the European Union.
KLAUS WIENDL
