Oh, this south, oh, this Nice ...

The Nice Prosecutor's Office filed an appeal against the court’s decision on the release of a member of the Federation Council from Dagestan Suleiman Kerimov, Le Monde reports with reference to the prosecutor of the city of Jean-Michelle Pret.

The billionaires are accused of laundering money when tax evasion.

As expected, the court must consider a complaint of the prosecutor's office within a few days.

According to Portra, the measures taken to limit Kerimov’s freedom “do not seem proportionate” to the French prosecutor's office, given the personality and significant income of the senator. The department requires again to put him in custody or at least strictly control Karimov’s movements.

On November 23, the court in Nice freed Kerimov from custody on bail of 5 million euros with a ban on leaving the Primorsky Alps Department. A Russian passport was seized from the senator and obliged him to be celebrated several times a week in the police.

Kerimov was detained on November 20/A> at Nice Airport and delivered to the police station. On November 22, it became known that the court extended the deadline for the senator for another day.

On February 15, the French police searched Hier villa in the vicinity of Nice . Law enforcement officers tried to find documents about the real owner of Hier, the area of ​​which is 12 thousand square meters. Nominally, the villa is owned by the Swiss financier Alexander Studhalter, but it was assumed that in reality its owner was Kerimov.

There was also a suspicion that Karimov also belonged to several surrounding villas, also decorated on Studhalter.

As expected, these objects were purchased at a low value with the transfer of part of the money to sellers bypassing the tax authorities of France.

51-year-old Kerimov has been a member of the Council since 2008; Before that, he was a deputy of the State Duma from the LDPR. According to media reports, the Kerimov family belongs to the company Polyus Gold and the Sinema-Park network of cinemas. He also controls the financial and industrial group "Nafta-Moscow". In addition, the businessman previously owned the Uralkali shares, VTB and the peak group, and in 2011-2016 he owned the Anji Makhachkala football club.

In the Forbes rating in 2016, Kerimov took 45th place. His assets were estimated at 1.6 billion dollars.