The police of German Hamburg seized 30 paintings from the arrested yacht of the Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, including the work of Marc Chagall. This is reported by the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.
According to the publication, the businessman had to notify the German authorities about his assets, as he is under EU sanctions. It probably never happened. The total cost of all the paintings is about €1 million. The fact that they are on the Dilbar yacht was reported to the German authorities by an art consultant associated with their purchase.
At the end of September, the German police raided three of Usmanov's villas in the Bavarian commune of Rottach-Egern. The oligarch is suspected of tax evasion, money laundering and violating German legislation on foreign trade and payments. According to Der Spiegel, he may have evaded €555 million in taxes on income and gifts during 2014-2022.
