According to the agency, Senator Suleiman Kerimov was detained by French law enforcers on Monday, November 20. This was told by a representative of the Russian Embassy in France.

The diplomat said that the senator was taken at the airport in Nice and taken to the police station. Then immediately went to the staff of our foreign policy department.

The Reuters agency, citing a source in the French prosecutor's office, wrote that the oligarch is suspected of tax evasion. After in 2013. the law that prohibited state agents from owning assets abroad came into force, Kerimov transferred his assets to the charity fund Suleyman Kerimov Foundation. The details of what happened are not given. Officially no one commented on the information. At this time, the telegram-channel Mash claims that a few months ago the French villa Kerimov had already been searched, allegedly then they were connected with the case of fraud with real estate. This is not the first loud story about Senator and oligarch Kerimov. In 2006, "Moskovsky Komsomolets" rumors about his relationship with the leading Tina Kandelaki.

Allegedly the politician was in a car accident in Nice. Together with him was a girl whom he ripped himself, for which he paid a heavy burn (in the accident he was hit by 70% of the body). Kandelaki herself categorically rejected the connection. I assured you that during these days I did not appear in public due to illness. Suleiman Kerimov - Russian businessman and senator. From 2011 to 2016, he owned the football club "Anji" from Makhachkala. Forbes estimated his fortune at $ 6.3 billion.