Officials search the luxury yacht "Dilbar" near Bremen

Created: 2022-09-27Updated: 2022-09-27 13:26

The luxury yacht “Dilbar” is moored at the Lürssen shipyard in Lemwerder across from the Bremen district of Vegesack.

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Investigators searched the yacht of a Russian entrepreneur near Bremen on Tuesday.

This was confirmed by the public prosecutor's office in Frankfurt am Main when asked.

According to circles, the action was directed against the Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov.

The ship is the luxury yacht "Dilbar".

According to a statement from the Attorney General, 60 officers were involved in the search.

Bremen - In an investigation against a 69-year-old entrepreneur from the Russian Federation, the Frankfurt am Main public prosecutor and the Federal Criminal Police Office, in cooperation with the Munich II public prosecutor's office, searched a motor yacht in northern Germany, according to the statement by the public prosecutor's office.

First, the "Spiegel" had reported.

The luxury yacht was detained in April on the basis of EU sanctions over the invasion of Russian troops in Ukraine.

The yacht, which is said to be the most expensive in the world at more than 500 million euros, was subject to a ban on disposal and may therefore “no longer be sold, rented or encumbered”, as a spokesman for the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) said at the time.

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