Wine Red, the French area renowned for its top-end red wines, is not except an Estate. As well as several of them are rumoured to have ghosts. Yet one castle specifically has actually come to be involved in an extremely strange situation where the proprietor appears to be both living and also dead at the exact same time.
Château de la Rochepot, in Wine Red, France, rests a rock” s get rid of from the solemn Chardonnay creeping plants of Puligny-Montrachet. The neo-Gothic 12th-century citadel still sets down wonderfully on a rough outcrop, yet the entire area is currently under judicial liquidation.
The significant traveler destination and also the spirit of the town, the castle has actually been shut for 3 years and also its furnishings is currently rising for public auction to settle the financial obligations of its rich Ukrainian proprietor.
Currently behind bars waiting for test in a fraudulence instance including greater than EUR12 million, district attorneys have actually charged him of making believe to be dead to leave justice.
The secret proprietor of Château de la Rochepot
The castle is handled by a Ukrainian local in Lithuania and also a Moldovan that represents a business in Luxembourg.
In the town, a Ukrainian in some cases appears that mentions “his” castle yet likes to be called “Monsieur” as opposed to offering his name.
In December 2017, the regional day-to-day paper Le Bien Public disclosed that the craftsmens got for the “stunning task” had actually never ever been paid.
Notified, Europol after that uncovers that this “Monsieur” is a “high-flying fugitive” that passed himself off as dead in 2014 to “leave justice” in his nation. The dead (currently highly resuscitated), Dmitri Malinovsky, ripped off “greater than 12 million euros”, according to the Kiev district attorney’s workplace.
On October 5, 2018, authorities jailed him in “his” castle. Ever since, he has actually remained in jail in Nancy, where we will certainly understand “in the coming months” if a test happens, possibly “in the very first fifty percent of 2022,” Vincent Legaut, vice-prosecutor in Nancy, informed AFP. The Ukrainian does not want to comment, according to his legal representative, Benoît Diry.
Broken heart for the citizens
All of it appeared to be searching for for the citizens in 2015 when the castle ultimately brought in a customer after having actually gotten on sale for 3 years. Its proprietor, the heiress of ex-president Sadi Carnot, had actually established as a problem for the sale the “complete regard” of the area. Yet the public auction demonstrates how the pledge was damaged, in spite of the brand-new proprietors consenting to the problem.
For the 300 approximately residents of La Rochepot, nevertheless, this is heartbreaking, and also they have actually mobilised in order to attempt to conserve what historic items they can from being liquidated.
” We are requesting a pure and also straightforward post ponement of the sale as it is occurring presently. If the liquidator hears our objection and also accepts market just the current items, it will certainly be great for us,” claimed Romuald Pouleau, a previous caretaker at the castle.
” We desire the castle’s furnishings, the historic furnishings, to stay in the estate.”
The citizens state the event has to do with greater than simply the estate, and also anxiety it is critical for tourist in the location and also numerous incomes rely on its ongoing presence.
” The town sheds 30,000 site visitors a year, so it has a huge financial influence on the b and b, on the winegrowers, on the farmers,” claimed Véronique Richer, the mayor of the town, distressed at the effects for the regional economic situation. “It has an effect not just on the town yet additionally overall region.”
