1. In 2011, Dmitry Rybolovlev became the majority owner and president of the football club Monaco.
58 Facts About Dmitry Rybolovlev
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Dmitry Rybolovlev is one of the alleged victims of Swiss art transporter Yves Bouvier as part of The Bouvier Affair.
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Dmitry Rybolovlev's hobbies include sailing where his yachts named Skorpis race competitively winning the ClubSwan 50 World Championship and taking line honour in the 2021 Fastnet Race sailing his ClubSwan 125.
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Dmitry Rybolovlev was born in a Russian family, in Perm.
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Dmitry Rybolovlev entered the business world in 1990 after graduating from the Perm Medical Institute.
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Dmitry Rybolovlev worked as a doctor before going into business.
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Dmitry Rybolovlev earned his first million dollars by reselling products, which the factories used to pay for in services rather than cash as was then a common practice in Russia.
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In 1992, Dmitry Rybolovlev went to Moscow to take a business course and received a brokerage license from the Russian Ministry of Finance, one of the first in Russia and the first in the Perm region, which permitted him to trade and deal with securities.
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In early 1994, Dmitry Rybolovlev persuaded directors of these and some other enterprises to establish a bank, which he headed.
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Dmitry Rybolovlev later decided to concentrate on two assets, Uralkali and Silvinit, given that the Russian potash industry was underdeveloped at the time due to the lack of interest from investors, unlike in the oil and gas sectors.
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From 1993 to 1995, Dmitry Rybolovlev's portfolio included securities of Uralkali, Silvinit, Metafrax and Neftekhimik.
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Dmitry Rybolovlev assigned bodyguards to all the directors of his enterprises, with only one, Evgeny Panteleimonov, director of Neftekhimik, refusing to accept.
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Together with Dmitry Rybolovlev, he had insisted on stopping the supply of the company's products through a mafia-controlled straw firm, "Trade House FD".
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Dmitry Rybolovlev accused Rybolovlev of being behind the murder, which led to Rybolovlev being arrested and spending 11 months in pretrial detention.
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In 1997, Dmitry Rybolovlev was acquitted by courts of law at three levels, including the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.
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In 2000, Dmitry Rybolovlev replaced the entire management of Uralkali, setting an increase in labor productivity as a key indicator, and as a result, it increased by 2.5 times in the period from 2000 to 2007.
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The merger was finalized in July 2011, after Dmitry Rybolovlev had sold the remaining shares of Uralkali.
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When Dmitry Rybolovlev became a shareholder in Uralkali, the company began to actively engage in backfilling the voids inherited from the Soviet era.
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In July 2018, media reported that Dmitry Rybolovlev was a potential buyer of Chinese businessman Li Yonghong's stake in AC Milan, but the deal didn't materialize.
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Dmitry Rybolovlev is not subject to EU, Monegasque or US sanctions.
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In November 2022, Dmitry Rybolovlev joined the board of directors for the Ligue de Football Professionnel, which oversees two prominent football leagues in France.
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An expedition organized into the Perm Krai by the same NGO in 2010, when Dmitry Rybolovlev was still the company's owner, revealed that Uralkali's sinks contained at least 16 harmful elements, exceeding the maximum permissible levels by 1,850 times.
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Dmitry Rybolovlev described Kama water as "very polluted", declaring that small rivers around Berezniki had in fact turned into the brine.
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Russian sources alleged that Dmitry Rybolovlev helped Georgi Bedjamov escape Russian authorities, but Dmitry Rybolovlev denied these claims in an interview to the French newspaper Le Parisien in late October 2016.
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Dmitry Rybolovlev resorted to the use of offshore companies to hide his identity, as TPOs are illegal in Europe.
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On February 18,2025, media reports claimed that Dmitry Rybolovlev was allegedly present at the Russian-American negotiations in Riyadh.
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Dmitry and Elena Rybolovlev wed in 1987 in Perm, Russia.
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Der Spiegel reported in 2018 that Dmitry Rybolovlev speaks neither English nor French.
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In July 2021, Dmitry Rybolovlev acquired a new sailing ClubSwan 125 yacht, named Skorpios after the Greek island owned by his family trusts.
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Skorpios' skipper is Olympic gold medalist and two-world champion Fernando Echavarri, while Dmitry Rybolovlev is the racing yacht's helmsman.
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Dmitry Rybolovlev owns a racing yacht of the ClubSwan 50 model, now renamed Sparti.
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Dmitry Rybolovlev owns an estate in Saint-Tropez on the Cote d'Azur in the south of France, houses in Gstaad, Switzerland, and used to own property in Geneva and Paris with his former wife.
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In 2013, the property purchases were contested by Dmitry Rybolovlev's estranged wife, Elena, during the couple's divorce proceedings.
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Dmitry Rybolovlev subsequently looked to Florida, where American businessman Donald Trump was selling a 6-acre Palm Beach residence on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.
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In 2016, Dmitry Rybolovlev razed the mansion on the property after being granted permission to subdivide the land into three lots, two of which have since sold for a combined $71.34 million.
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In October 2018, Dmitry Rybolovlev started a major development project on the island with the aim of transforming it into a luxury resort.
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In 2010, Dmitry Rybolovlev bought a 2,000m Belle Epoque style penthouse apartment on the Avenue d'Ostende in the Monte Carlo district of Monaco.
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Dmitry Rybolovlev has built two houses worth $135 million in the Swiss alpine resort of Gstaad.
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Dmitry Rybolovlev was the owner of Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci, or studio, until it was sold at Christie's auction house for a record-breaking $450 million on 15 November 2017.
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In early 2015, it was reported that Dmitry Rybolovlev may have been a victim of a complex art fraud to the tune of $1 billion allegedly perpetrated by the art dealer Yves Bouvier, who was indicted on charges of fraud and complicity in money laundering.
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In 2015, Dmitry Rybolovlev was again at the center of a controversy after it was alleged that he bought two stolen Picassos from art dealer Olivier Thomas through the mediation of Yves Bouvier.
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In October 2018, Dmitry Rybolovlev launched a lawsuit against Sotheby's in Manhattan federal court, alleging that the auction house "materially assisted the largest art fraud in history".
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Dmitry Rybolovlev's lawyers said "Sotheby's was the willing auction house that knowingly and intentionally made the fraud possible" because it knew how much Bouvier paid the sellers.
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On 6 November 2018, Dmitry Rybolovlev was questioned by the Monegasque police.
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Dmitry Rybolovlev's lawyers stated that this happened on the basis of information obtained from the phone of one of Rybolovlev's previous lawyers Tatiana Bersheda, which is the subject of an appeal in Monaco.
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Dmitry Rybolovlev was named a "formal suspect" in a graft investigation by Monaco's chief prosecutor.
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Dmitry Rybolovlev was released from custody and placed under judicial control.
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Dmitry Rybolovlev stated that "the seriousness of the initial scam" was understated "because of the wealth" of Rybolovlev in what he described as an ostracism of rich Russians.
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In September 2021, Dmitry Rybolovlev filed a case with the European Court of Human Rights against the Department of Justice of Monaco in a case of attorney-client privilege violation within the Bouvier affair.
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In November 2023, it was reported that Monaco investigating judges dismissed the case against Dmitry Rybolovlev concerning his alleged complicity for invasion of privacy.
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Dmitry Rybolovlev personally testified in court through interpreters saying he fully relied on documents from Sotheby's when making art purchases through Bouvier, which eventually led him to overpay his art advisor up to $1 billion.
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In October 2024, Dmitry Rybolovlev was cleared by Swiss authorities over his alleged role in the arrest of Yves Bouvier in Monaco in 2015.
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In February 2025, the corruption and the influence-peddling case against Dmitry Rybolovlev was officially closed after Monaco's judiciary ruled that the evidence presented was based on data unlawfully extracted from his lawyer's phone.
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Dmitry Rybolovlev provided financial assistance to the reconstruction of Saint Petersburg's Oranienbaum Palace, as well as to the restoration of the Conception Convent in Moscow.
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Dmitry Rybolovlev donated funds for the construction of the Russian Orthodox Church of St Nicholas in Limassol, Cyprus.
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In 2010, Dmitry Rybolovlev was awarded the Order of St Seraphim of Sarov I degree by Patriarch Kirill for funding the restoration of the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God in Zachatyevsky Convent.
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The donation follows a letter written by local 11-year-old twins to Dmitry Rybolovlev asking for financial help for a stadium where ASM's academy spends a period of their pre-season every year.
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Dmitry Rybolovlev's hobbies include sailing where his yachts named Skorpis race competitively winning the ClubSwan 50 World Championship and taking line honour in the 2021 Fastnet Race sailing his ClubSwan 125.