The owner of the German holding Tengelmann Group, which also includes the network of OBI building materials stores, the billionaire Karl-Erivan Haub disappeared in the Alps. As informs Spiegel, in mountains active search is now conducted, which is complicated by bad weather.

According to the publication, the 58-year-old skier disappeared near the Klein-Matterhorn mountain on April 7. His family financed large-scale prospecting work, which has not yet yielded results. According to the rescuers, because of bad weather, they can not go far from the planned routes, since it is dangerous.

It is noted that the search for a billionaire began on Saturday - immediately after he did not appear on time for the scheduled meeting.

Tengelmann Warenhandelsgesellschaft KG (Tengelmann Group) - controls a number of retail companies and retail chains, including OBI, as well as a large European supermarket chain Plus. The company belongs to the Haub family - one of the richest families in the world, whose fortune is estimated at $ 4.5 billion.