Dmitri Yevgenyevich Rybolovlev

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Dmitri Rybolovlev (2012)

Dmitri Evgenjewitsch Rybolowlew ( Russian Дмитрий Евгеньевич Рыболовлев; born November 22, 1966 in Perm ) is a Russian - Cypriot entrepreneur , sports sponsor and owner of the French first division soccer club AS Monaco since 2011. The Forbes magazine credited him with a personal fortune of around 6.8 billion US dollars (2019) to one of the richest people on earth .

Rybolowlew has been making headlines since 2015 through his role as the alleged victim of art trade fraud, the Yves Bouvier affair, by the Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier.

Life

Rybolovlev studied medicine in Perm. In 1990 he received his doctorate and worked briefly as a cardiologist in his father's medical company. He then went to Moscow , where he successfully speculated on the stock exchange, founded an investment company and a private bank .

Immediately after the end of communism , he set up the Uralkali fertilizer manufacturer . However, his financial rise experienced in 1996 a break, as the as "potash king" (Potash King) was in prison called Rybolowlew as an alleged principal of murdering a rival for nearly a year until he was acquitted finally for lack of evidence after a witness had withdrawn his testimony. Rybolowlev then left Russia and has since lived in New York City , Monaco and Cologny on Lake Geneva .

He sold his stake in Uralkali in 2010 for over $ 5 billion to Suleiman Kerimov , Alexander Nesis and Filaret Galtschew . In Geneva , he founded another trading company that made a "sensational entry" on the London Stock Exchange in 2005.

In 2010 Rybolowlew acquired through his financial vehicle “ Odella Resources Ltd. "With headquarters based on the British offshore - tax haven Virgin Islands was, 9.7% of the shares of the largest bank of Cyprus , the Bank of Cyprus , which at the stock exchange in Nicosia was traded. In 2012, its share was given as 5.01%. The following year Cyprus's banking system collapsed, wiping out Rybolovlev's stake in the bank and causing him a loss of around $ 600 million, according to his lawyer. According to the Bank of Cyprus website, Rybolowlew has not been listed as a shareholder since 2013.

Yves Bouvier affair

With the support of art advisor Yves Bouvier , Rybolowlew is said to have acquired art worth CHF 2 billion, including the painting Nu sur coussin bleu by Amedeo Modigliani for USD 118 million, the painting Salvator mundi by Leonardo da Vinci for USD 127.5 million and other works of art by Picasso , Gauguin , Rothko , Matisse and Rodin . In 2015, Bouvier, who also runs a duty-free warehouse for art in Singapore , was briefly arrested in Monaco on the basis of a complaint by Rybolowlew for fraud.

Bouvier is said to have given Rybolowlew to understand that he was acting as a middleman and not the owner of the pictures. As an art broker, he is said to have asked Rybolowlew two percent commission. Allegedly, however, the Swiss art dealer bought the works of art himself and then sold them to Rybolowlew. According to Rybolovlev's attorney, Bouvier cheated the Russian billionaire for $ 500 million to $ 1 billion in margins. Rybolowlew discovered the fraud in 2014 during a New Year's Eve party in New York when he was chatting with Sandy Heller, advisor to art collector Steven A. Cohen . The latter told him that Cohen had sold the painting Nu sur coussin bleu for USD 93.5 million. A short time later, in March 2012, Bouvier sold the painting to Rybolovlev for USD 118 million. Bouvier is therefore accused of a conflict of interest because on the one hand he is the owner of the bonded warehouse, to which his customers entrust their valuable art, and on the other hand he acts as an art dealer.

In January 2015, Pablo Picasso's stepdaughter Catherine Hutin-Blay filed a lawsuit against Bouvier for stolen goods. According to Hutin-Blay, Bouvier sold two pictures by Picasso, a portrait of a woman and a Spanish woman with a fan , and a sketchbook to Rybolowlew without her consent. A business partner from Bouvier's Paris warehouse company Art Transit, in which Hutin-Blay kept her art, is said to have taken it and sold it to Rybolowlew for 27 million euros. On September 14th, the criminal case against Bouvier was opened in Paris. He was released on bail of 27 million euros. On September 24, 2015, Rybolowlev handed both paintings to the French police on his own initiative .

In November, the painting Salvator mundi , whose authorship by Leonardo da Vinci is disputed, brought in record sales of over $ 450 million to Rybolowlew at an auction by Christie's .

In 2018 Rybolowlew accused the New York auction house Sotheby's of “driving up prices in a secret agreement with Bouvier.” A third of the objects Bouvier acquired and resold to Rybolowlew were realized through the intermediary of Sotheby's. In October, Rybolowlev sued Sotheby's for fraud and breach of contract for $ 380 million in damages. In June 2019, a New York court denied Sotheby's motion to dismiss the case. The court also decided to make the lawsuit publicly available by submitting new, unredacted documents from Sotheby's.

EU citizenship

Rybolowlew bought the citizenship of the Republic of Cyprus in 2012 and is therefore an EU citizen .

Sports sponsorship

Rybolowlew was one of the financiers, along with Roman Abramowitsch and Vladimir Potanin , of a foundation that supports Russian Olympians and whose supervisory body is chaired by Russian Prime Minister Medvedev . His attempt to get into FK Dinamo Minsk as an investor failed.

As Monaco

At the end of 2011, Rybolowlew took over 67 percent of the shares in the corporation (Société Anonyme Sportive Professionnelle) of AS Monaco through his company Monaco Sport Invest for the symbolic price of 1 euro at a time when the club was sportily on the ground. He then became president of the club and promised the club, which was relegated to the second French soccer league in 2011 and was fighting for survival in the 2011/12 season, to invest at least 100 million euros over the next four years.

His older daughter Jekaterina is a member of the board of directors of AS Monaco in 2013, as is Rybolowlew's personal lawyer Tatjana Berscheda.

Under Rybolowlew's leadership, AS Monaco was one of the football clubs in Europe in the summer of 2013 that had spent the most money on player transfers, a total of around £ 140 million for Falcao , James , João Moutinho , Éric Abidal and Ricardo Carvalho . In the same year, the club rose again to Ligue 1, and finally became French champions in 2017 with the best offensive in European football.

Others

property

In 2008, he acquired the "House of Friendship" (Maison de l'amitié) on Palm Beach from the American real estate tycoon Donald Trump .

In 2010 Rybolovlev bought the 2,000 m² penthouse in the Belle Époque style in Monte Carlo, Monaco. The property was acquired for € 220 million. Previous owners included Nick and Christian Candy, the brothers behind Candy & Candy, the interior design and real estate development business, and previously the Brazilian banker Edmond Safra, who died in a fire in the apartment in 1999.

In 2011 he bought an apartment in New York's Central Park for his daughter Yekaterina , the purchase price ($ 88 million) of which, according to Forbes, was the "largest single transaction in the history of the city." The 626 square meter apartment with ten rooms and four bathrooms had previously belonged to Sanford Weill, a former head of Citigroup.

That same year, Rybolowlew also bought US actor Will Smith's mansion in Hawaii for $ 20 million.

In April 2013 Rybolowlew bought the 80 hectare island of Skorpios in the Ionian Sea in Greece from Onassis heiress Athina Onassis . The price was estimated at € 126 million. A luxury resort is to be built there for € 120 million.

Rybolowlew and his former wife Elena owned a piece of land in Geneva (Switzerland) that they demolished in 2008 and wanted to rebuild as the Petit Trianon in the Palace of Versailles. The project was finally abandoned in the couple's divorce proceedings, but the couple had already been banned from the project by the authorities because the building height was significantly exceeded.

He also built two homes valued at $ 135 million in Gstaad, a Swiss alpine resort.

He also owns real estate in Saint Tropez, France .

financial assets

Over the years Rybolowlew owned a collection of paintings valued at around $ 700 million, including works by Pablo Picasso , Vincent van Gogh , Gauguin, Modigliani and Rothko.

He also owns a private jet Airbus A319 and a yacht worth $ 100 million.

Private

The Russian, who is considered media-shy, has been married since 1987 and is a father of two. He is living in divorce from his wife Jelena Rybolowlewa, but after six years of divorce negotiations, he was sentenced to a payment of over four billion Swiss francs in March 2014, which would have made it the most expensive in the world. In the second instance, however, an appellate court cut this amount down to 564.7 million francs (around 520.8 million euros) in June 2015.

At the end of November 2015, Dmitri and Jelena Rybolowlewa announced that they had reached an agreement on the condition of their divorce. As a result, both parties have agreed to discontinue all legal proceedings in the divorce case and the ancillary proceedings in any jurisdiction and to finally drop all claims against the other party as well as against related persons and companies. A sum was not mentioned, but is estimated at 564.7 million francs (around 520.8 million euros).

Rybolowlew has a wide range of sports interests, including skiing, equestrian sports and football.

literature

  • “Rybolovlev, le mystère de l'Est” , France Football of January 3, 2012, pp. 26/27.
  • Markus Dettmer and Christian Reiermann: Herring and Vodka. In: Der Spiegel November 5, 2012, pp. 20–22.
  • Benjamin Bidder: Oligarch Rybolowlew in Cyprus: The Great Silent , Spiegel online March 23, 2013.
  • “Monaco - qui veut la peau de« Rybo »?” , France Football from June 25, 2013, pp. 16-23.
  • “Mystères Rybolovlev” , France Football, July 8, 2014, pp. 48–50.
  • Leo Müller: Im Wilden Westen , BILANZ from November 27, 2015, pp. 146–151 - Detailed insights into the Rybolovlev - Bouvier case. A Swiss business journalist exposes the machinations of Yves Bouvier.

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ Russian Dmitri Rybolowlew buys majority stake in AS Monaco. Retrieved March 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Dmitry Rybolovlev. Retrieved March 4, 2019 .
  3. ^ Dispute between dealer and oligarch: art market thriller in Monaco turns into a state affair. Retrieved March 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Le Point, http://www.lepoint.fr/sport/football/quand-l-argent-fait-le-president-5-dmitry-rybolovlev-les-six-vies-de-l-autre-prince- de-monaco-31-12-2013-1775774_1858.php . Download in January 2014.
  5. ↑ a b France Football (2012), p. 26
  6. ↑ How an oligarch wants to conquer an industry from Basel. Retrieved on March 4, 2019 (Swiss Standard German).
  7. ↑ see Rybolowlew's biography on Business Insider
  8. ^ A b France Football (2012), p. 27
  9. ↑ a b Michael Hartmann: The global business elite: A legend . Campus Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-593-50610-4 ( google.fr [accessed March 4, 2019]).
  10. ↑ Dances With Bears: Russia's Potash King Is Getting Destroyed By A $ 12 Billion Divorce. Retrieved March 4, 2019 .
  11. ↑ The Kali dispute spreads. Retrieved April 26, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Uralkali Gains as Rybolovlev Sells Controlling Stake. In: Bloomberg. Retrieved April 26, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Russian billionaire sells 53.2 pct Uralkali stake . In: Reuters . June 14, 2010 ( reuters.com [accessed April 26, 2019]).
  14. ↑ Reuters 2010
  15. ↑ Cyprus's banks: nationalized or in foreign free float , Wiener Zeitung March 18, 2013
  16. ↑ Annual Financial Report 2012. In: Bank of Cyprus. December 31, 2012, accessed April 18, 2019 .
  17. ^ Andrew Higgins: New Commerce Secretary Was No Friend to Russians at Cyprus Bank . In: The New York Times . March 6, 2017, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed April 18, 2019]).
  18. ↑ Annual Financial Report 2013. In: Bank of Cyprus. December 31, 2013, accessed April 18, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Stephanie Baker and Hugo Miller: The Billionaire, the Dealer, and the $ 186 Million Rothko , in: Bloomberg Markets , April 28, 2015
  20. ↑ Jörg Häntzschel: “They want to send me to the Gulag” , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 9, 2015
  21. ↑ Stéphane Sellami: Dmitry Rybolovlev: “Nous avons été trahis” , in: Le Parisien , September 25, 2015
  22. ↑ Leo Müller: The Suspecten Practices in the Private Art Trade , in: Bilanz , January 8, 2016
  23. ↑ Stephanie Baker and Hugo Miller: The Billionaire, the Dealer, and the $ 186 Million Rothko , in: Bloomberg Markets , April 28, 2015
  24. ↑ Leo Müller: The Suspecten Practices in the Private Art Trade , in: Bilanz , January 8, 2016
  25. ↑ Eileen Kinsella: Gagosian Says Freeport King Yves Bouvier's Activities Pose 'Terrible Conflict of Interest , on: artnet News , September 24, 2015
  26. ↑ Olga Grimm-Weissert: Warning for users of duty-free warehouses , in: Handelsblatt , October 15, 2015
  27. ↑ Jörg Häntzschel: Did “Freeport-König” Bouvier sell stolen Picassos? , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 16, 2015
  28. ↑ Olga Grimm-Weissert: Again indicted , in: Handelsblatt , September 17, 2015, page 47
  29. ↑ Harry Bellet: L'homme d'affaires Yves Bouvier mis en examen pour recel de deux Picasso volés , in: Le Monde , September 15, 2015
  30. ↑ Alexis Favre: Dmitri Rybolovlev remet deux Picasso à la justice française , in: Le Temps , September 24, 2015
  31. ↑ “ Leonardo auction: Why this picture is the most expensive in the world ” from November 16, 2017 at spiegel.de
  32. ↑ Gina Thomas: Rybolowlew wants to sue in London: Private sales? ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed April 26, 2019]).
  33. ↑ "Greatest Art Fraud in History"? Billionaire sues Sotheby's for a record amount. October 9, 2018, accessed April 26, 2019 .
  34. ↑ Sotheby's must face Russian billionaire's lawsuit over art fraud -... In: Reuters . June 25, 2019 ( reuters.com [accessed July 8, 2019]).
  35. ↑ The greatest art theft in history? June 27, 2019, accessed on July 8, 2019 (German).
  36. ↑ Sara Farolfi, David Pegg and Stelios Orphanides: Cyprus 'selling' EU citizenship to super rich of Russia and Ukraine. The Guardian September 17, 2017
  37. ↑ a b Oliver Meiler: Bought for only one euro . In: sueddeutsche.de . 2017, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on March 4, 2019]).
  38. ↑ See the article ( Memento from November 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at Zeit.de ; According to tf1.fr from November 2011, it could even be 200 million euros.
  39. ↑ France Football (2013), p. 21.
  40. ↑ http://www.ligue1.com/ligue1/article/monaco-clinch-title-nantes-and-guingamp-promoted.htm
  41. ↑ Monaco's success story: from second division to championship title within four years. May 18, 2017, accessed on March 4, 2019 (German).
  42. ↑ AS Monaco: Dmitry Rybolovlev, un Russe à la conquête du Rocher. August 10, 2013, accessed April 26, 2019 (French).
  43. ↑ Valérie Duby: Divorce du siècle: ne pleurons pas sur son sort! In: Le Matin . May 21, 2014, ISSN  1018-3736 ( lematin.ch [accessed April 26, 2019]).
  44. ^ Condé Nast: Nick and Christian Candy Renovate a Penthouse in Monte Carlo. Retrieved April 26, 2019 .
  45. ↑ Luisa Kroll: Billionaire's Daughter Pays Record Sum For NYC Pad. Retrieved April 26, 2019 .
  46. ↑ Manfred Quiring: Russian billionaire: The 88 million apartment and Rybolowlew's money . December 22, 2011 ( welt.de [accessed April 26, 2019]).
  47. ↑ Alexei Barrionuevo: Russians Court Luxury Real Estate With Record-Breaking Sales . In: The New York Times . April 3, 2012, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed April 26, 2019]).
  48. ↑ WORLD: Most expensive NYC apartment: 22-year-old Russian woman buys 88 million apartment . December 21, 2011 ( welt.de [accessed April 26, 2019]).
  49. ↑ Russian oligarch has to pay 3.3 billion to ex-wife. May 20, 2014, accessed April 26, 2019 .
  50. ↑ Gerd Höhler: Legendary private island: Onassis island now belongs to Russian. April 14, 2013, accessed on April 26, 2019 (German).
  51. ↑ Manfred Quiring: Russian billionaire: The 88 million apartment and Rybolowlew's money . December 22, 2011 ( welt.de [accessed April 26, 2019]).
  52. ↑ Offshore trick in the war of the roses of the Rybolowlevs: Will the world's most expensive divorce become even more expensive? April 5, 2016, accessed April 26, 2019 .
  53. ↑ a b Alexei Barrionuevo: Big Deal - Dmitry Rybolovlev's Divorce, Oligarch-Style . In: The New York Times . April 5, 2012, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed April 26, 2019]).
  54. ↑ see the section “Un petit Versailles sur Léman” in an article from April 22, 2008 at swissinfo.ch
  55. ↑ Paula Dupraz-Dobias swissinfo.ch: Do billionaires just want homes away from home? Retrieved April 26, 2019 .
  56. ↑ Russian oligarch has to pay 3.3 billion to ex-wife. May 20, 2014, accessed April 26, 2019 .
  57. ^ Dennis Gastmann: Closed society: A wealth report . Rowohlt E-Book, 2014, ISBN 978-3-644-11621-4 ( google.fr [accessed April 26, 2019]).
  58. ↑ The most expensive divorce of all Russian oligarchs. Retrieved April 18, 2019 .
  59. ↑ King of fertilizers has to pay four billion www.blick.ch
  60. ↑ a b RP ONLINE: Russian oligarch: This divorce costs over 520 million euros. Retrieved April 18, 2019 .
  61. ↑ Russian oligarch separated from wife www.bild.de

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Commons : Dmitri Yevgenyevich Rybolovlev  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
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SURNAME Rybolovlev, Dmitri Evgenyevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Рыболовлев, Дмитрий Евгеньевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian entrepreneur and sports sponsor
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Perm , Soviet Union