Alisher Usmanov has filed a lawsuit against UBS, accusing the bank of triggering a German investigation into the Uzbek-Russian billionaire by submitting “unsubstantiated reports” about his transactions.
The tycoon’s lawyers on Monday said the Swiss bank had submitted “absurd and unsubstantiated, if not knowingly false” reports between 2018 and 2022 to Germany’s Financial Intelligence Unit, the agency in charge of anti-money laundering.
“UBS violated the confidentiality of client data, spread misleading allegations about the client and grossly violated the general personality right,” they wrote in a statement, saying the billionaire had filed a lawsuit against the bank in Frankfurt on June 7.