The purchase by far right Swedish businessman Patrik Brinkmann of a luxurious Berlin home has raised fears that he might use it as headquarters for neo-Nazi causes, Der Spiegel reported. The villa is secured by metal gates and surveillance cameras.

"The occupier evidently doesn't want to be disturbed by anyone, least of all by German intelligence agents who have been showing an interest in him for some time now," Der Spiegel wrote. Brinkmann has close ties with neo-Fascists in Spain and Italy and with Germany's far-right National Democratic Party.