Raid on Tegernsee: police stormed the villas of Usmanov, a man close to Putin
Created: 09/22/2022, 09:14 am
By: Klaus-Maria Mehr
Masked officials in Rottach-Egern am Tegernsee: All of Alischer Usmanow's possessions are currently being stormed and searched.
© Thomas Plettenberg/Imago
A large contingent of police forces arrived in Rottach-Egern on Wednesday morning and searched the villas of the Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov.
Rottach-Egern – While the people of Rottach are walking their dogs on Wednesday morning, hundreds of hooded special forces from the Federal Police arrive.
On this September morning, they surrounded and stormed the houses of Alischer Usmanow on Lake Tegernsee.
These are officers of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA).
According to consistent research by
Spiegel (Pluscontent)
, MDR and BR, they have been collecting incriminating material against Usmanov, a confidante of Putin, for months.
Masked officials in Rottach-Egern am Tegernsee: All of Alischer Usmanow's possessions are currently being stormed and searched.
© Thomas Plettenberg
Federal police special forces in Rottach-Egern: Usmanow villas are currently being searched
According to the Munich II public prosecutor's office, 250 forces are deployed.
It's about finding more evidence.
Previously, well-known data sets such as the Panama Papers had probably been combed through.
Usmanov is being investigated for tax evasion, money laundering and violation of the Foreign Trade Act.
The volume of the allegations reads enormously.
According to
Spiegel
, Usmanov is said to have evaded income and gift taxes totaling around 555 million euros between 2014 and 2022.
New trouble for the oligarch and Putin friend from Tegernsee Alischer Usmanow: Now his real estate in Rottach-Egern is being searched.
His yacht in Hamburg is apparently also currently being searched.
© Imago
Putin confidante Usmanow at Tegernsee has signed many things over to his family
Usmanow himself is no longer in Europe or even on Lake Tegernsee.
The billionaire is said to have left for his old homeland of Uzbekistan when the sanctions began.
He transferred many of his possessions, which are still in Germany or Europe, to members of his family before Russia launched a war of aggression in Ukraine.
Among other things, his yacht and his private plane, reportedly an Airbus A340.
A federal police officer stands guard at the gate to Alischer Usmanow's villa on Lake Tegernsee.
The area is cordoned off.
© Thomas Plettenberg
According to an exclusive research by
Merkur.de
, the luxury liner (value: around 500 million euros) now belongs to Usmanow's sister Gulbahor Ismailowa (56), who is also on the sanctions list.
Usmanov's yacht started moving early Wednesday morning.
She was towed from Hamburg to Bremen.
It is not known whether the action is related to the raid.
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Usmanov's second sister, Soadat Narzieva (56), is said to have hundreds of millions of dollars in her brother's 27 bank accounts in Switzerland.
Usmanov's press secretary Grigory Levchenke described this tactic to our editorial team as "effective property management".
A police car, behind Usmanow's villa in a luxurious location on the Schorn in Rottach-Egern am Tegernsee.
© Thomas Plettenberg
Usmanow's real estate on the Schorn in Rottach-Egern with an estimated total value of around 50 million euros belongs to various offshore companies.
According to the land register, the former SS villa in Rottach-Egern belongs to a company in the tax haven of the Isle of Man.
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