Art Dealer Wins Dismissal of Charges in Fight With Russian Mogul
- Lack of impartiality affected whole investigation: court
- Russian accused Swiss of overcharging him by about $1 billion
Dmitri Rybolovlev
Photographer: Jean Catuffe/Getty Images
Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier won an important victory in his feud with Russian billionaire client Dmitry Rybolovlev, after a Monaco judge threw out charges of fraud and money laundering.
An appeals court judge said that the investigations had been “conducted in a partial and unfair way,” and Bouvier hadn’t been given an opportunity to “rectify these serious anomalies.”