ALBAWABA - A recent investigation claims that German-American billionaire Karl-Erivan Haub, who disappeared six years ago near Switzerland's Matterhorn summit, was seen in Moscow with a Russian lover.
Retail mogul Karl-Erivan Haub disappeared in April 2018 in Zermatt, Switzerland, during a ski mountaineering contest. After extensive air and alpine searches, his corpse was never found. In 2021, a German court declared him deceased, leaving his family with the enormous retail giant Tengelmann Group.
After six days of aerial and alpine rescue searches, Haub's body was never found. Three years later, a Cologne court declared him dead.
Haub called Ermilova multiple times in the days before his disappearance, raising suspicions of a plot. Ermilova is accused of FSB ties. A St. Petersburg event agency manager, she is described.
RTL's probe has placed doubt on Haub's fate. The inquiry alleges Haub and Veronika Ermilova, a younger woman, were spotted in Moscow.
There have been conjectures about Haub's potential connections to dubious figures in the Russian financial sector, such as banker Andrey Suzdaltsev and scammer Sergey Grishin, dubbed the "Scarface Oligarch."
Even while the inquiry has provided fresh insight into Haub's disappearance, a number of mysteries linger, captivating officials and the public in equal measure.
