Russian Billionaire Faces Swiss Probe Over Monaco Arrest
- Probe was opened in February by Swiss federal prosecutors
- Case about ‘unlawful activities on behalf of a foreign state’
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Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev faces a Swiss criminal probe into whether he illegally helped to orchestrate the Monaco arrest of art dealer Yves Bouvier, marking the latest chapter in the long-running feud between the two men.
Rybolovlev is being investigated under Article 271 of the Swiss criminal code, according to a spokesman for the Swiss Attorney General’s Office. That covers the use of “false pretenses or threats” to take a person “abroad in order to hand him over to a foreign authority.” The probe was opened in February, he said, declining to give further details.