This painting by Leonardo da Vinci was sold for 450 million $ Its a painting of Christ the Saviour also known as Salvator Mundi The picture of Christ is androgynous
The seller was Dimitri Rybolovlev The buyer is unknown The Auction House is Christie‘s
Rybolovlev is a doctor He graduated in medicine and is actually a cardiologist He is also a Russian “Businessman” the kind were and remain fronts for shady mainly Jewish financiers including the Rothschild’s that asset stripped the Soviet Unions massive public sector during the Yeltsin and Putin era
In 1992 Rybolovlev became the first businessman in the Perm region to obtain a Russian Ministry of Finance certificate entitling him to deal with securities, and in the same year opened an investment company. In 1994 Rybolovlev founded a bank, acquired shareholdings in several of Perm’s industrial enterprises and joined their boards.
In 1995, Rybolovlev sold most of his shareholdings and focused in enterprises operating in the potash industry, acquiring a majority stake in a Govt owned potash company named , Uralkali.
A cardiologist who made his money off fertilizer
Nothing about his official story (except strangely his medical degree ) rings true
Rybolovlev or rather a trust in Rybolovlevs daughters name has also done business with Trump having bought one of Trumps Palm Beach Florida mansions for 95 million Trump who bought it for 40 million a neat 55 million dollar profit
In September 1995, Evgeny Panteleymonov, Director of Neftekhimik, a company partly owned by Rybolovlev, was shot by a killer at the staircase of his own house. In May 1996, Rybolovlev was officially indicted and arrested for the contract killing of Panteleymonov. Rybolovlev was however set free 11 months later, after the only living witness recanted his testimony In 1997 Rybolovlev was acquitted by courts of law at three levels
Dimitry Rybolovlev purchased 38 masterworks of art through an offshore company called Xitrans set up with the assistance of Mossack Fonseca, the law firm of Panama Papers fame. The purchases were made through Yves Bouvier, a broker known as the “Freeport King” who specialized in tax-free transport and storage of art. Dmitry Rybolovlev is said to have met Bouvier a dozen years ago through Tania Rappo, godmother to one of his daughters.
Among those 38 was the Salvator Mundi bought through Bouvier for 127 million dollars
Bouvier, pioneered and owns Freeports – state-of-the-art storage facilities attached to airports in places such as Luxembourg and Singapore, in which very high value artworks, wines and luxury goods can be held, legally, in duty-free zones.Bouvier is accused of fraud and complicity with money laundering along with an accomplice, Tania Rappo, and a third person who hasn’t been immediately identified
A major player in the art world, Bouvier is well-known for operating free ports in Geneva, Luxembourg, and Singapore. Through his Natural Le Coultre, they are the largest art operator in Geneva with a 22,000 square meter state-of-the-art facility that offers art storage, transport, and favorable tax conditions, and sometimes no taxes at all.
Bouvier Affair The Boubier Affair involves two cases both involving Bouvier
One of these involves Catherine Hutin–Blay, the step–daughter of Pablo Picasso. In March 2015, Hutin-Blay, the only daughter of Picasso’s second wife Jacqueline, filed a complaint alleging that 58 separate works had been stolen from her. Hutin-Blay alleged that the works were stolen from a store in a suburb of Paris that is run by Art Transit, a Bouvier family company.However, Dmitry Rybolovlev later announced that Bouvier had sold him the two Picasso paintings in 2013. Rybolovlev handed over the paintings to French authorities in 2015.
The Hutin Blay case coincided with a separate case involving allegations made by Rybolovlev forming the major part of the affair. In February 2015, Bouvier was indicted in Monaco on charges of fraud and complicity in money laundering. The charges followed a criminal complaint made by Rybolovlev’s family trust alleging that Bouvier had systematically overcharged it over a period of 10 years to acquire paintings.
On 26 February 2015, the Swiss merchant was arrested in Monaco upon an accusation by Dmitry Rybolovlev.
At Geneva, reports indicate warehouses hold $100 billion worth of art essentially beyond the taxman‘s eyes. Bouvier was also behind €150 million arts-park named R4 in Paris, and was also courting the Chinese government to set up a freeport in Beijing.
In September 2017, it emerged that Bouvier was under criminal investigation by Swiss authorities amid allegations that he may have evaded more than 100 million euros in taxes related to his cross-border art dealings.
Going by Rybolovlev’s own accusations the paintings were bought by Bouvier at inflated prices If 2015 purchase of Salvator Mundi for 127 million was inflated the 2017 sale at 450 million is obviously a sham purchase
Which can only mean the whole deal was an exercise in money laundering or a cover for an illegal operation by means of which cardiologist Robalovlev could be paid nearly half a billion for illegal services rendered
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