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There are new details about the mysterious disappearance of billionaire Karl-Erivan Haub five years ago in Zermatt USA. These strengthen the suspicion that the Tengelmann heir tried to fake his death and went into hiding in Russia with the help of third parties.
Haub’s tracks were lost after a solo training session on the morning of April 7, 2018 at an altitude of almost 4,000 meters on the Matterhorn. It is still officially believed that the billionaire died in a tragic skiing accident at Glacier World.
But Haub had embarked on the daring ski trip without careful planning, which did not suit the alpinist, who was considered very experienced. He then turned off his smartphone. Now new details are emerging from internal Tengelmann investigators, who appeared in Zermatt the day after Haub’s disappearance. They strengthen suspicions that Haub may have planned something and faked his death.
Mysterious couple
The focus is on Haub’s questionable Russian connections, which were already suspicious to private investigators when Air Zermatt rescue helicopters were still circling above the glacier.
An RTL investigative team came into possession of secret documents showing that two days after Haub’s disappearance, an ominous couple made an unusual booking at the five-star boutique hotel The Omnia, where Haub had stayed.
“The suspects with a German passport and foreign names posed as a couple,” reports Focus magazine, which gave RTL access to the papers. “The couple spent most of their time observing the Haub family crisis room at the hotel.”
Russian Haub mistress
Thanks to good connections with various secret services, the Tengelmann investigators later found out that the dubious couple were members of the Russian secret service FSB. This is recorded in a conversation log kept by a family lawyer. The lawyer notes that it is “interesting” that the couple also had contact with Georg Haub (61), the middle of the three Haub brothers, shortly before arriving in Zermatt.
In addition, Karl-Erivan Haub is said to have had frequent telephone contact with his alleged Russian lover Veronika E. in the days before his disappearance – there are reports that he has a child with her.
Haub spoke to E. on the telephone “increasingly”, according to telephone connection data that Focus was also able to view. “On the eve of the ski trip, from which Haub never returned,” it says, “the then 58-year-old even called Veronika E. on the phone, a full hour to St. Petersburg, shortly after his arrival in Zermatt.”
Photo evidence that Haub is still alive?
By the way, after that alleged last, long telephone conversation, Haub’s lover is said to have ended her life in St. Petersburg and redescribed herself as a “Moscow woman.” In the capital she enjoyed a luxurious lifestyle with expensive apartments.
According to the findings of the Tengelmann investigators, Haub’s lover, who was about twenty years younger than him, also worked for the FSB. The Haub brothers’ further contacts with Russia, which have been built up since 2002, lead internal investigators to assume that Karl-Erivan Haub “did not have an accident, but went into hiding in Russia with the help of the FSB.”
Research by RTL in Moscow also speaks of surveillance images showing Karl-Erivan Haub in Moscow, a few months after he disappeared in Zermatt. Through Russian contacts, the Haub family was also offered a photo of the missing man for 100,000 euros, showing him alive after his disappearance. Information was also promised about “where and how he lives and what his current name is,” according to Tengelmann’s investigator’s report.
Haub’s appearance would be expensive
They suspect that Haub’s dubious dealings with Russian businessmen are in danger of being exposed. The CIA had also investigated the case: the missing person also had an American passport. The assumption of the Americans: the Tengelmann boss first flew to Italy, and then went to Russia.
Karl-Erivan Haub was officially declared dead in May 2021. At the same time, the official investigation was halted. Due to a lack of evidence, the responsible public prosecutor’s office in Cologne refuses to withdraw the declaration of death. The Haub family also supports the official version.
If it turns out that the person who officially died on April 7, 2018 is actually still alive, it will be costly for those left behind. Because it could be that the billion-dollar agreement between the new Tengelmann CEO Christian Haub (59), Karl-Erivan’s ‘widow’ Katrin Haub and their children would have to be reversed. (kes)
Source: Blick
I am Amelia James, a passionate journalist with a deep-rooted interest in current affairs. I have more than five years of experience in the media industry, working both as an author and editor for 24 Instant News. My main focus lies in international news, particularly regional conflicts and political issues around the world.
