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A billionaire presumed dead for years may be secretly living in Moscow with a younger woman, the New York Post reports, publishing some new evidence.
Karl Erivan Haub, owner and CEO of Tengelmann Group disappeared on April 7, 2018 while skiing in the Alps.
Multiple searches for the then 58-year-old businessman proved unsuccessful and ended after six days. In 2021, the US-born businessman of German parents was officially declared dead by a court in Germany, according to the Seattle Times. However, the Prosecutor's Office in Cologne recently ordered an investigation into claims that Haub's brother, Christian, falsely testified in court in 2021 that he had no reliable evidence that his brother was alive.
The investigation follows a complaint filed by journalists from the RTL channel, who reported on Haub's disappearance. One of them, investigative journalist Liv Von Boetticher, told Capital magazine that she knows of photos that purportedly show Haub in Moscow in 2021, the same year the businessman was pronounced dead. "As far as I know, these photos were taken on behalf of Christian Haub and two investigators working for him by an Israeli-American company, which checked the biometric optical surveillance system in Moscow for images of Karl Erivan," explained the journalist. The percentage of resemblance between Haub and the person in the photo was about 90%, according to a report in Stern magazine.
Boetticher says that, based on her information, Christian Haub had access to the photos when he testified under oath in a Cologne court in May 2021 that he knows of no reliable evidence that his brother is alive. According to her, there are strong indications that Karl Etivan Haub staged his disappearance in the Alps, possibly with the knowledge of his family members, who made a mistake by testifying falsely in court and hiding the truth from the public.
Haub, who was born in Tacoma, Washington and educated in Switzerland, was married with two young children when he disappeared. However, according to Boettiher, there is evidence that Haub may have been involved with a younger woman in Russia. According to the Times, the 58-year-old had called Veronika Ermilova's phone 13 times in the three days before he disappeared.
Rumors about Haub and his alleged extramarital affair with Ermilova have been circulating since 2020, when his wife Catherine openly argued with her in-laws that her husband should not be officially declared dead. There were also rumors that the billionaire had a Russian passport in addition to his American and German ones, and that he had poured millions of euros through his company into Russia between 2010 and 2015.
Haub disappeared just a month after the death of his father, Erivan Haub. Botticher, however, seems to believe that the reason he staged his death may be related to the family's business activities. "We suspect that relations with Russia or Russian collaborators may have gotten Karl Erivan into trouble in the Western world," says the journalist. Christian Haub took over the reins of the Tengelmann Group shortly after his older brother's disappearance. His lawyer, Mark Binz, categorically denies the journalists' claims in a comment he made to Zeit Online. "Obviously, these accusations have no truth. Until a few weeks ago, the public prosecutor's office in Cologne believed the same, and so far no order for investigation has been issued."
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