Report: Finland sees Roman Rotenberg helping father avoid sanctions

HELSINKI, Jan 31 (PRIME) -- The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) of Finland has arrested 120,000 euros of a real estate tax paid by Russian businessman Roman Rotenberg on a spa hotel connected with his father Boris Rotenberg, who is under the E.U. sanctions, newspaper Helsingin Sanomat reported late on Monday.

Roman Rotenberg was suspected of helping a person under the E.U. sanctions to avoid them. The NBI did not comment on the report.

Roman Rotenberg's lawyer Mikko Mantere, who made the transaction, said that the sanctions did not deny his client property rights and the possibility to pay the tax, but he could not explain how he received the money from the client who is in Russia.

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