It turned out to be the last transaction that the wealth manager attempted before his death - in the spring, the elusive financier sought to pull off a final coup by selling six million Hermès shares to a financial adviser of the Qatar royal family. But when French magistrates quizzed him about the deal a few months later, he carefully avoided clarifying whether the shares in question belonged to him or his ex-client Nicolas Puech.
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