Suspect in Borussia Dortmund Plot Hoped to Profit Off Attack, Officials Say

A 28-year-old German-Russian citizen was arrested on Friday and accused of trying to blow up the Borussia Dortmund team bus as part of a plot straight out of a James Bond movie to injure and kill the club’s players, drive down its share price and make a huge profit.

Germany’s elite antiterrorism unit arrested the man, identified only as Sergei W. in keeping with German privacy laws, at his home near the southwestern city of Tübingen early in the morning, federal prosecutors said.

After more than a week of speculation in which the attack was attributed to Islamist terrorists, the far right and the far left, he was charged with attempted murder, inflicting serious bodily harm and carrying out an explosion.

Frauke Köhler, the spokeswoman for federal prosecutors, said the purchase of “suspicious options” related to Borussia Dortmund shares on the morning of the attack, April 11, served as a tip to investigators.

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