Director of restaurant whose chef apparently killed himself says suggestions that it could hold lost up to £1.4m in alleged fraud are ‘a tissue of lies’Benoît Violier,the French-Swiss chef dubbed “the best in the world” who died in an obvious suicide last week, may hold been the victim of a £1m wine fraud, and Swiss media hold reported.
The Swiss magazine Bilan reported that Violier’s Restaurant de l’Hotel de Ville,which had three Michelin stars and topped a list last year of the world’s top 1000 eateries, could hold suffered losses of between SFr800000 and 2m (£555000-£1.4m) in the scam. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com