This is the second of two episodes about Hermes-Air Nicola Poeshe's Lost Fortune.

If you haven't heard episode one, start there. It's already in your feed.

One day this summer, reporter Nick Kostov got a text from a source.

Eric Fremont, longtime financial advisor to Nicola Puech, was dead.

He apparently had left his chalet one morning near the town of Statt in Switzerland,

and he'd ridden his electric bike to the train tracks.

Near a campsite by the railway, Fraymond left the path and approached the tracks.

And he'd basically been hit by a train and that was it. Fremont was 67.

Local police are treating the death as a suicide.

At the time of his death,

Fremont's world was an upheaval,

according to court documents and people close to him.

His longtime client and friend, Nicola Puesch,

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 Fremont's apparent suicide, and he kept digging.

Now, finally, he has some answers.

Welcome to The Journal, our show about money, business, and power.

I'm Jessica Mendoza. It's Wednesday, November 26th. Today on the show,

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