Boris Berezovskyy’s villa, that is situated on the azure shore of France, fell under the search in connection with  the investigation of the money-laundering case. The agency of France Press informed about this with a reference to  the information sources in the law machinery.

According to Berezovskyy , on Wednesday morning about twenty representatives of law machinery rushed to his estate “Shato de La Garoup” that is situated in the neighborhood with Antibom.

Search warrant, that they produced, was signed up by the judge from Marrseilles.But at the time of the police operation , Berezovskyy was absent, informs RIA News.

It is also said that the search was conducted in connection with the investigation of the department of the struggle with great financial criminality. And it wasn’t stressed under what suspicion was the former Russian oligarch that caused the police to conduct such an operation.

The  estate  “Shato de La Garoup”  and  the adjoining villa  “Cloche de La  Garoup”,bought by Berezovskyy  in  1997  through  the foreign companies , costed  22 millions EUR. Since Autumn, 2001 Berezovskyy has been living in Great Britain,  where he received  a political asylum in  September, 2003.