This is the second of two episodes about Hermès Air Nicolas Puèche's lost fortune.
If you haven't heard episode one, start there.
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One day this summer, reporter Nick Kostoff got a text from a source.
Eric Frémont, longtime financial advisor to Nicolas Puèche, was dead.
He apparently had left his chalet one morning near the town of Stadt in Switzerland,
and he'd ridden his electric bike to the train tracks.
Near a campsite by the railway, Frémont left the path and approached the tracks.
And he'd basically been hit by a train, and that was it.
Frémont was 67.
Local police are treating the death as a suicide.
At the time of his death, Freyman's world was an upheaval,
according to court documents and people close to him.
His longtime client and friend, Nicola Pueche,
was suing him in two countries for what could be the fraud of the century,
stealing a $15 billion fortune.
But was the allegation true?
Nick had been digging into that question long before Framon's apparent suicide, and he kept digging.
Now, finally, he has some answers.
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