The elite Parisian division of the prosecutor’s office, which is engaged in the fight against organized crime, was engaged in the investigation of transactions to buy four villas by the daughter of Senator Suleiman Kerimov for 268 million euros, writes Moscow Timew.
A new group of prosecutors from the Junalco division, which was recently created to investigate the “very complex” crimes throughout France, studies how 32-year-old Gulnara Kerimova acquired villas and who is their final owner, Bloomberg reports with reference to people who are familiar With the situation.
Earlier, the villas located on Cape Antibe on the Cote d’Azur have already appeared in the case of laundering the money that the prosecutors of Nice, but Kerimov managed to resolve this case.
However, in June, the French control of the laundering of Tracfin prepared a report on this real estate. Junalco prosecutors took it as a basis, Bloomberg sources say; This was confirmed by the agency in the Paris prosecutor’s office. According to the report, Gulnara Kerimova acquired for 268 million euros the structure owning villas, and the younger brother Said provided her with funds for this. He controlled the gold mining company Pole and entered its board of directors, but left it in the spring; Said Kerimov sold part of the Pole package, the remaining handed over the support to Islamic organizations after the European Union and Great Britain included him and his father in sanctions lists after the start of the war in Ukraine.
Bloomberg billionaire index estimates the current state of Kerimov at $ 10.9 billion. Forbes magazine in the rating of billionaires, which was released at the end of April, when Said Kerimov got rid of a share in the Pole, estimated the family status at $ 4.4 billion (in 2021 G. – $ 15.8 billion).