Documents seen by bne IntelliNews reveal that German prosecutors are divided on the validity of evidence used to justify the criminal investigation of sanctioned tycoon Alisher Usmanov in Germany. The Cologne prosecutors office rejected allegations of money laundering after a careful review of allegations made by Russian national Andrei Ivanov, whereas the Frankfurt prosecutor’s office decided to launch an investigation based on the same allegations, raising new questions about the investigation’s legitimacy. German courts have ruled recently on several occasions the evidence used to launch in…
