2023-04-28 17:46:31
Raid on FC Bayern
“The team doesn’t trust themselves anymore”
FC Bayern does not come to rest. According to a report, the Bundesliga club’s office and the Allianz Arena were searched. Background: Investigations once morest the Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov.
As if FC Bayern didn’t have enough worries at the moment, the investigative authorities also showed up.
As the Bild reported, investigators from the Federal Criminal Police Office in cooperation with the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office searched the Allianz Arena and the office of the current runners-up on Säbener Straße on Tuesday.
Background to the raid: The investigating authorities are said to have been looking for evidence in the money laundering proceedings once morest the Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov.
The billionaire is a friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Since the start of the Ukraine war, the 69-year-old has been on the list of EU-sanctioned supporters of warmongering Putin. His EU assets were frozen.
Point of contact with Hoeneß?
Uli Hoeneß is said to be the connection to FC Bayern. Until his escape in 2022, Usmanov lived like Bavaria’s honorary president at Tegernsee, where they are said to have met personally. Usmanov is said to have received VIP tickets for Bayern’s Champions League games through Hoeneß in the past.
In the money laundering proceedings once morest Usmanov, there is a sum of more than half a billion euros that Usmanov is said to owe to the German tax authorities for the period between 2017 and 2022 – among other things because of evaded taxes. As early as autumn 2022, three of the oligarch’s villas on Tegernsee were searched by the authorities.
The Bild according to the Bundesliga club is not a suspect, but a witness. “Our authority is not conducting any investigations or fines once morest FC Bayern Munich or those responsible or members of the club,” said the responsible public prosecutor’s office in Frankfurt am Main on request.
FC Bayern wanted to Bild– Reportedly not comment on the raid.
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