More than 60 police officers ওraided a luxury yacht in northern Germany linked to ✃a Russian businessman in connection with alleged breaches of sanctions and money laundering rules, officials said on Tuesday.
The statement by Frankfurt prosecutors identified 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 conducted several transactions between 2017 and 2022 using a complex network of offshore companies to hide the origin of t📖he payments, which amounted to millions of euros.
Usmanov is subject to sanctions 🧔in the United States and the European Union.
The raid comes the week💖 after state and federal police searched 24 properties connected to Usmanov in the German statไes of Bavaria, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein.
A spokesman𝓡 with the Frankfurt prosecutor's office confirmed that Tuesday's yacht raid was part of the same investigation.
