Liv von Boetticher in an interview
“No traces” of an accident in the Haub case
April 19, 2024, 1:01 p.m
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Karl-Erivan Haub, then head of the Tengelmann Group, set off on a ski tour in April 2018 and did not return. He is declared dead in May 2021. RTL journalist Liv von Boetticher tells in the podcast “Zero Hour” why the case doesn’t let her go – and how it triggered new investigations.
It is one of the most mysterious cases in German economic history: In April 2018, Karl-Erivan Haub set out on a ski tour on the Matterhorn. The then boss and partner of the Tengelmann Group, one of the richest men in Germany, was not supposed to return from this tour to this day. The actually experienced ski mountaineer Haub disappeared, and intensive searches in the glacier area led to nothing. In May 2021, the Cologne District Court officially declared Haub dead. But the circumstances of the disappearance remain mysterious, there are Haub’s connections to dubious Russian businessmen and opaque money flows.
In media reports based on internal investigations, doubts repeatedly arose as to whether Haub actually died in a mountain accident. RTL journalist Liv von Boetticher has been researching the case since 2021 and has come across a lot of evidence that speaks against the accident theory.
“Secret material was leaked to us from the Tengelmann company,” says von Boetticher in the podcast “Zero Hour”. This also showed that “no traces” of an accident were found on site. Instead, clues led to Russia: a suspected mistress of Haub’s from St. Petersburg, contacts with dubious businessmen and secret service connections.
In May 2023, von Boetticher filed a criminal complaint against Christian Haub, the brother of the disappeared man. The accusation: Haub falsely claimed in an affidavit that he had no evidence that his brother was still alive. The Cologne public prosecutor’s office is now investigating this issue. In the podcast, von Boetticher talks about an obscure case and its background.
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Listen in the new episode of “Zero Hour”:
· What evidence suggests that Haub is in Russia
· What the biggest Russian money laundering scandal has to do with the Haub case
· Why an event agency in Saint Petersburg sometimes doesn’t organize any events at all
You can find all episodes directly here RTL+, Apple or Spotify or via Google.