At Trial, Sotheby’s Says Russian Oligarch Was Sloppy in Buying Art
As the opening witness in a civil art fraud trial this week, Mikhail Sazonov testified that his employer, a Russian oligarch, had been tricked to overspend by a Swiss art dealer and that those markups had been boosted by the evaluations of artworks supplied by a Sotheby’s executive. But during…
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