But let’s return to Lucerne. Albert Laritsky won’t receive 550,000 euros a year in living expenses. He’s getting something else. He’s getting time. Switzerland doesn’t hand over fugitives just like that.  Lives well. Money helps one to live well. In 2010, Laritsky devised a scheme of striking simplicity: a fake contract worth $16.7 million with Champion Chemicals AG, followed by a loan from Sberbank, 254 million rubles, flowed to Switzerland, then to Panama, then back to his account at Credit Suisse. Then, to cover his tracks, he orchestrated a kidnapping. Sergei Efimov, the director of the paper mill, was forced to sign documents transferring 660 million rubles in assets, under threat of death. This isn’t just money, it’s art.