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1. www.theartnewspaper.com › 2024/01/12 › dmitryTransparency, accountability and double standards complicate ...

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   Jan 12, 2024 · Art market news. Transparency, accountability and double standards complicate Rybolovlev's testimony in New York fraud trial. Lawyers for Sotheby's cast the Russian billionaire as a victim of...

2. www.nytimes.com › 2024/01/30 › artsJury Finds Sotheby’s Did Not Help in Any Fraud of Russian ...

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   Jan 30, 2024 · A federal jury decided that Sotheby’s was unaware of any scheme by a Swiss art dealer who the Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev has said cheated him in art sales. Credit...

3. www.ft.com › content › aab0e6c1-9cf3-4226-b093-1bSotheby’s cleared of art fraud in Russian billionaire’s lawsuit

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   Jan 30, 2024 · Sotheby’s has been cleared of liability in a lawsuit brought by Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, who had accused the famed auction house of participating in an alleged scheme to...

4. www.theartnewspaper.com › 2022/07/28 › geneva-courtBillionaire battle rages on as Geneva court overturns ...

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   Jul 28, 2022 · Rybolovlev is accusing Bouvier of having swindled €1.1bn from him through the €2bn sales of 38 works of art from 2003 to 2014. In 2017 and 2019, the Russian owner of the Monaco football club...

5. artdaily.com › news › 165690Oligarch's aide tells court how Sotheby's expertise had role ...

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   Rybolovlev has accused Sotheby’s of helping the art dealer, Yves Bouvier, who bought artworks himself and resold them to Rybolovlev at markups worth tens of millions of dollars. Bouvier, who has denied any wrongdoing, has said he was free to charge what he wanted as an art dealer.

6. hyperallergic.com › 412064 › the-russian-billionaireThe Russian Billionaire Behind Christie’s Controversial $450M ...

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   Nov 16, 2017 · Russian billionaire Dmitry E. Rybolovlev, whose family trust sold the painting, as Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi” (c.1500)(image by Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic)

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   Who is Dmitry Rybolovlev?

   • Dmitry Rybolovlev had accused the auction house of aiding a Swiss art dealer who he says cheated him out of tens of millions of dollars. A federal jury decided that Sotheby’s was unaware of any scheme by a Swiss art dealer who the Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev has said cheated him in art sales. Lionel Cironneau/Associated Press

   Jury Finds Sotheby’s Did Not Help in Any Fraud of Russian Oligarch

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   Does Rybolovlev have a gripe?

   • “Rybolovlev has a gripe. He does. But his gripe is with Bouvier and not Sotheby’s,” Asner said during closing statements. “Caveat emptor,” he added. In a statement after the trial, the auction house said the verdict “totally vindicates Sotheby’s of any alleged misconduct.

   Sotheby’s cleared of art fraud in Russian billionaire’s lawsuit

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   Was Rybolovlev duped?

   • The auction house fired back at Rybolovlev’s claims that he had been duped because documents provided to him from Sotheby’s lent credibility to Bouvier, portraying him as a sophisticated businessman capable of conducting his own due diligence. “Rybolovlev has a gripe. He does.

   Sotheby’s cleared of art fraud in Russian billionaire’s lawsuit

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   Why did Rybolovlev file a lawsuit despite a jury verdict?

   • Daniel J. Kornstein, a lawyer for Rybolovlev, said in a statement that despite the jury’s verdict, the lawsuit had achieved its goal, which was to shed light “on the lack of transparency that plagues the art market.” “That secrecy,” the statement continued, “made it difficult to prove a complex aiding and abetting fraud case.”

   Jury Finds Sotheby’s Did Not Help in Any Fraud of Russian Oligarch

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   Did Sotheby's know Yves Bouvier was 'flipping' art to Rybolovlev?

   • Rybolovlev ’s lawyers argued Sotheby’s knew, or should have known, that Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier was “flipping” art to Rybolovlev for far more than he paid for it, without disclosing that he was not an agent but in fact the true owner of the works.

   Sotheby’s cleared of art fraud in Russian billionaire’s lawsuit

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   Did Leonardo da Vinci sell 'Salvator Mundi' to Rybolovlev?

   • He defended the strategy as a legitimate business practice in the art world. “Salvator Mundi” by Leonardo da Vinci is one of the four works whose sales were a focus of the trial. Bouvier sold it to Rybolovlev for $127.5 million a day after buying it for $83 million from Sotheby’s.

   Jury Finds Sotheby’s Did Not Help in Any Fraud of Russian Oligarch

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8. www.straitstimes.com › asia › sothebys-defeatsUS court sides with Sotheby’s against Russian oligarch in art ...

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   Jan 31, 2024 · NEW YORK - A federal jury in the United States on Jan 30 ruled in favour of Sotheby’s at a trial in which Russian billionaire oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev accused the auction house of defrauding...