Tyler Kustra, an expert on corruption at Nottingham University, has stated that Sergei Roldugin, the cellist who looks after Putin's fortune, is one of the very few people whom Putin truly trusts.
A Swiss court this week convicted four Russian bankers for allowing Sergei Roldugin to deposit tens of millions of euros in bank accounts – colossal sums for a man who is, officially, a professional cellist. But it has long been suspected that Roldugin is tasked with looking after the enormous wealth of his close friend, President Vladimir Putin.
On the face of it, the court case looks rather tame for this era: a Zurich court found four Russian bankers guilty on March 30 of failing to carry out the necessary checks on the origin of deposits into two bank accounts by Russian cellist Sergei Roldugin in 2014 and 2016.
The sentences imposed were light: no jail time and fines that only come into effect if the bankers break the law again over the next tw...
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