"I hear this for the first time. I am very much surprised. I don't even understand what the talk is about... I don't have any accounts," Gaidamak told RIA Novosti on the phone.
On Friday, the Luxembourg newspaper Tageblatt, with reference to sources in law enforcement bodies said the accounts of Russian oligarchs had been frozen in Luxembourg within the framework of investigating the case on money laundering through the Israeli bank Hapoalim. The publication specifies only entrepreneur Arkady Gaidamak, whereas the names of other Russian oligarchs are not mentioned.
The newspaper writes that Luxembourg's prosecutor's office, on a request from Israel, carried out a search in the bank Sella Luxembourg, and is getting ready to pass the confiscated documents to the disposal of Israeli investigation bodies.
Tageblatt recalls that Gaidamak, who emigrated from the USSR to France in 1980s, was suspected by the French justice of involvement in illegal deliveries of Soviet weapons to Angola via France. Later on, the newspaper writes, these suspicions were removed from him, but he is still accused of tax evasion in France.
