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Dmitry Rybolovlev, the Russian oligarch who bought a Florida mansion from Trump for $95 million, and a New York condo for $88 million, has been arrested in Monaco on corruption charges.
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
More on the plane meeting:
Trump, Russian billionaire say theyve never met, but their jets did in Charlotte
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article136940273.html
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(51,974 posts)Botany
(70,291 posts)Lots of people pay $100,000,000 for a house that wouldn't sell for $40,000,000
and then bulldoze it.
But really what about HRC's emails?
Roland99
(53,342 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)I have been following news about him for over a year now, am hoping this is a serious arrest/charge.
He flattened the property in question with the intent to divide it into 4 lots for sale, dunno if he got that far.
Not only was his jet in the same area of NJ as Trump was there, but his yacht was also seen in So. Fla.
at same times Trump was at Mar Loco.
triron
(21,916 posts)We may be hearing more about this soon.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Lots of receipts!
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)and all his anti-American, anti-justice KGOP republican cronies.
malaise
(267,823 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,217 posts)Only this one is fine because IOIYAR
triron
(21,916 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)darn it, and papers are soft peddling with "detained" and "held for questioning." These people have been conspiring against a lot of nations, especially in Europe, so hopefully this is very bad for him.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Rybolovlevs lawyers, Hervé Temime and Thomas Giaccardi, said their client was interrogated based on information retrieved from his lawyers phone, something that is the subject of an appeal in Monaco. The attorneys also said they plan to lodge a complaint over the breach of secrecy in the case.
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The billionaires residence in Monaco, La Belle Epoque, was searched Tuesday morning, according to Le Monde. Rybolovlev, who made an $11 billion fortune selling a pair of Russian fertilizer companies, has been feuding with Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier about the sale of more than $2 billion of artwork. Rybolovlev has alleged that Bouvier overcharged him by as much as $1 billion for a collection of masterpieces by Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Gustav Klimt and others.
Monacos justice minister, Philippe Narmino, took early retirement in September 2017 after Le Monde published an article featuring what it said were text messages between Rybolovlevs lawyer Tetiana Bersheda, Narmino and other Monaco officials in the weeks preceding and following the arrest of Bouvier by Monaco police on Feb. 25, 2015. Bouvier was taken into custody on his way to a meeting with Rybolovlev and accused by Monaco prosecutors of fraudulently overcharging the Russian.
The text messages were discovered after a Monaco investigating magistrate asked Bersheda to hand over her phone because a lawyer for Tania Rappo, a Bulgarian resident of Monaco involved in the dispute, complained that Bersheda had illegally recorded conversations between the two women.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Coincidental clandestine meetings between Trump, Javanka, Russian billionaires sound unlikely, though.
machoneman
(3,952 posts)in this matter. Hey, getting them to arrest that Russkie is the 1st step in squeezing him for info on this odd sale. I would not be surprised as the FBI often works with foreign governments on a scratch-my-back basis. Would be great to find out small mushroon peni Trumpboy is in this up to his fat neck!
erronis
(14,955 posts)I doubt that normal rules of international respect for money transfers (laundering) are well enforced in this little haven.
I'd like to know how a normal nation (the US under a different potus) would be able to encourage this tax haven to do anything to disturb the extremely wealthy "residents" of the tiny area.