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Authorities were searching Usmanov's house in Rottach-Egern on
the shores of the Tegernsee, two sources familiar with the
matter told Reuters.
The 69-year-old, who is active across a broad range of business
sectors and has a net worth of $14.6 billion, according to
Forbes, is at the centre of two separate investigations into his
finances in Germany.
A statement from the prosecutor general's office in Frankfurt
said raids had targeted a Russian businessman suspected of
having used his "extensive and complex network of companies and
corporations" to disguise the origins of several transactions of
funds between 2017 and 2022.
The transactions are believed to have amounted to a
multi-digit-million-euro sum, said the statement, which did not
name Usmanov.
The Munich state prosecutor said earlier Wednesday that
comprehensive raids were carried outat the residence of a
Russian citizen and four other suspects, also without naming
Usmanov.
The Russian national is suspected of having tasked a security
company with observing properties in Upper Bavaria financially
linked to him even after he was added to the European Union
sanctions list, the prosecutor's statement said.
His payment of that security firm is thought to have flouted a
ban on the use of frozen funds, it added.
German broadcasters BR and MDR first reported the tax evasion
raids against Usmanov, who was added to the Western sanctions
list in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24.
Usmanov's representatives did not immediately respond to a
Reuters request for comment on the raids.
(Reporting by Alexander Marrow and Alexander Huebner, Writing by
Rachel More; Editing by Paul Carrel, Ana Nicolaci da Costa and
Mark Heinrich)
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