Since French police detained Suleiman Kerimov in Nice in November and placed the Russian oligarch under formal investigation for suspected tax fraud, shares in Polyus, the Russian gold miner his family controls, have tumbled 12 per cent. Russia’s rouble-denominated Micex index has, over the same period, risen 4 per cent.
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Journalists are at work in front of the police station where billionaire Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov is being questioned by investigators, on Nov. 22 in Nice, two days after his arrest in Nice on suspicion of tax evasion.