Dmitry Klyuev's trial is taking place on Monday, March 30. He is being prosecuted by the National Financial Prosecutor's Office and is accused of being at the heart of a sprawling case that led businessman Bill Browder to lose his investment fund in Russia and find himself in the Kremlin's crosshairs.

Bill Browder, an American businessman who became British, is pursuing what he describes as a clique of Russian mobsters accused of embezzling no less than 230 million dollars to his detriment and to the detriment of the Russian tax authorities. A massive fraud widely documented by the justice systems of several countries will be at the heart of a trial at the Paris Judicial Court this Monday, March 30.

The case began in 2007 when a group of Russian fraudsters benefiting from documented links within the police, judiciary, and tax authorities, fraudulently took control of three of Bill Browder's companies in Russia. These prosperous subsidiaries were forced to pay the colossal sum of 230 million dollars to the tax authorities, which was then embezzled by the criminals.

A certain Dmitry Klyuev is implicated in the referral order for "aggravated money laundering." The 58-year-old, whom Browder identifies as the ultimate beneficiary of the 230 million dollar fraud, "has been consistently presented as a member of the Russian criminal underworld, specializing notably in economic and financial crime," "convicted as such in the early 2000s," describes the investigating judge.

The investigation established that Dmitry Klyuev spent at least 2.1 million euros in France between 2008 and 2012, using funds considered to be of criminal origin. Dmitry Klyuev faces a ten-year prison sentence in France, a fine of 750,000 euros, and the confiscation of assets linked to money laundering.