Serge Rubinstein

Biography

Wire of Dimitri Rubinstein financial lender of the tsar Nicolas II, and of Estella Rubinstein called Stella, confidante of the monk Raspoutine, Serge Rubinstein passes a happy childhood to the imperial court Russian. With the revolution of 1917, its family flees the country by carrying a fortune, in the form of diamonds bent in the lining of its jacket. They flee while passing by the Sweden, and are established in England a few years when Serge will make studies of economic scenes at the university of Cambridge. Serge settles then with Paris to open the theater " Broadway" who did not have any success, at the time, but financial without scruples, Serge makes a success of a bank transaction on the funds deposited by noble Tsaristes on accounts Suisse S, which enables him to take the control of the Free-Asian bank. Serge Rubinstein buys using false drawn drafts on his own bank, a chain of hotel with restaurant Parisian. This more been worth and this fortune the met with the first financial plan to speculate against the French franc. This one falls with the purse, but this cabal endangers the financier, which is worth to him to be expelled of France for “endangered of finances of the republic”… signed Pierre Laval. Nouveau riche, multimillionnaire, it is exiled with London where it quickly takes the control of “Chosen Corporation”, company of a Korean gold mine , that it resells with the Japanese. This operation brings back four million dollars to him. With this capital, Serge Rubinstein launches out in a series of complicated but happy speculations such as the fusion of the “Postal Télégraph” and the “Western Union”, which will bring back a million dollars to him, as well as the reorganization of the “company of the subway New Yorkais” which will bring back to him three more million dollars… etc… Called under the American flags, Serge remembers that it entered to the the United States with a passport Portuguese under the name of Sergio Emanuelo Rubinstein de Rovello , and that the Portuguese law prohibited its subjects from carrying the weapons for a foreign nation. He refuses his call under the American flags, which will be worth to him two years of prison in the federal penitentiary of Lewisburg. During its imprisonment it buys via its right-hand man Stanley, 200.000 actions of the Boeing Corporation , for 500.000 dollars, which will pay to him after the release, 15 million dollars. Serge, man of a remarkable intelligence, without scruple and morals had almost achieved his goal when the January 27th 1955 its manservant William Morter found it bound, muzzled and strangled in its room. The trunk was not open and the jewels of great value were always there. After a long investigation no index, no trace was found, but the police officers concluded that this assassinated could not be made by only one man, because the financier was a solid, robust man and a former boxer amateur.

Rubinstein business

More than 150 police officers were assigned to disentangle the Rubinstein business, and today still of the detectives continue to seek and to clear up this assassinated called the “file of the gold coast”. Hundreds of theories were stated, of the jealousy to the passion of its pretty protected theatrical, while passing by a financial revenge on some ruined shareholders. For saying police force of Manhattan, it is necessary to draw aside the crime ordered by hired killer, because those does not enter the house of their victim, do not use cords nor of adhesive tape, they posément mitraillent their victim in the street and disappear.

Serge Rubinstein leaves a will and bequeaths thousand dollars per month to his mother and five hundreds per month with each one of his two daughters, ten thousand dollars with his faithful servant, his former Parisian secretary Mary Payne , and with charming the Betty Reed one of its protected. The unknown richness still nowadays was considered at more than twenty million dollars, dissimulated in many bogus companies. The financier always being wary had many bank accounts under false names in many countries, which would represent part of its fortune remained still nowadays hidden forever. A theory denounced by an English investigator Sir Perey Sillitoe , acting on behalf of the trust of diamonds would have revealed with the American authorities, that Serge Rubinstein would have diverted a large diamond stock bought with the money of the Russian government and part of his capital. For these reasons, two Russian agents would have been charged to liquidate it. This version privileged by the United States wants that all the crimes of the history and humanity are charged to the enemy of the time… the USSR. These various assumptions are not more incredible than the mystery which surrounds this assassinated, remained “government controlled”.

Anecdotes

When one asks the captain of police force, if it had drawn up a list of the enemies of Rubinstein, this one launches the phone book on his desk, by saying " here… the list is all faite" .

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