Bouvier affair: Swiss prosecutors to close legal dispute over art
by Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#5DGBK)
Case between dealer Yves Bouvier and oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev has been ongoing since 2015
A long-running court case involving an art dealer who was accused of swindling $1bn from a Russian oligarch took a step closer to being resolved after Swiss prosecutors moved to close an action against him.
The dispute between the dealer, Yves Bouvier, and the oligarch, Dmitry Rybolovlev - known as the Bouvier Affair - has been ongoing since 2015, but this week the Geneva prosecutor's office confirmed it was planning to end the criminal proceedings.
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