German officers are raiding premises linked to a former subsidiary of Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom on suspicion of attempted sabotage and complicity in violations of the Foreign Trade Act, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
Federal prosecutors are searching premises in Berlin and at a company in Frankfurt in connection with the former energy group Gazprom Germania, the authority said.
There is a suspicion that Russia's invasion of Ukraine was accompanied by a deliberate attempt to disrupt Germany's gas supply, the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office in Karlsruhe said.
The authority said the case concerned suspected attempted sabotage against the constitutional order and aiding and abetting violations of the Foreign Trade and Payments Act.
No arrests were made. "Today's searches are intended to clarify the existing grounds for suspicion," it said.
