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Art Fraud Exposed: Rybolovlev vs. Bouvier's Billion-Dollar Deception

2/4/2026

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The documentary series The Oligarch and the Art Dealer examines a billion-dollar art fraud case involving Dmitry Rybolovlev and art dealer Yves Bouvier.
The series reveals how the art market intertwines with global finance and power structures.
Bouvier, dubbed the “freeport king,” helped Rybolovlev enter the elite art world while obscuring his markups, using fresh legal documents to reconstruct the timeline and reveal secrecy in the art market.

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The documentary series The Oligarch and the Art Dealer examines a billion-dollar art fraud case involving Dmitry Rybolovlev and art dealer Yves Bouvier.
The series reveals how the art market intertwines with global finance and power structures.
Bouvier, dubbed the “freeport king,” helped Rybolovlev enter the elite art world while obscuring his markups, using fresh legal documents to reconstruct the timeline and reveal secrecy in the art market.