An Hermès heir is attempting to recover his reportedly missing fortune—again—though this time, he’s going after .

Nicolas Puech is suing the CEO, as well as the luxury conglomerate itself, to try to regain his alleged lost shares in Hermès, totaling around $16.3 billion (€14 billion). The 81-year-old filed the lawsuit in a Paris civil court last May, Bloomberg .

Puech claims that his former wealth advisor Eric Freymond sold his Hermès shares, totaling somewhere in the realm of six million, to Arnault without his knowledge. This transaction allegedly occurred with the LVMH titan was building a stake in Hermès International SCA back in the 2010s, according to Bloomberg. Puech claims he put Freymond in charge of his shares, which he no longer knows the whereabouts of. The fifth-generation m

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