German authorities have raided the offices of Germany’s top lender, Deutsche Bank, in connection with a money laundering probe, prosecutors said on Thursday. The operation is part of a “criminal investigation against unknown responsible parties and employees of Deutsche Bank AG on suspicion of money laundering and other related offenses under the Money Laundering Act,” prosecutor and spokesman Dominik Mies told OCCRP. On this basis, the prosecutor is assessing whether there was any potential money laundering,” the bank said. According to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, the money laundering probe involves Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. In 2022, Deutsche Bank settled a separate investigation by Frankfurt prosecutors regarding the processing of payments related to the family of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.