A former LVMH executive — dismissed after being accused of misconduct, including allegedly giving a colleague the middle finger — is suing the group’s wines and spirits subsidiary, Moët Hennessy, for €1.7 million ($2 million). He claims his firing was not due to management issues, but rather in retaliation for reporting suspected sales of products to Russia that violated sanctions.

Kenneth Kralick, who led online sales for the wines and spirits division of LVMH, says his boss turned against him after he blew the whistle in April 2023 on an alleged parallel distribution system channeling products through the United States to Russia.

"That's when the real difficulties began," his lawyer, Marine Le Conte, told the Paris tribunal on Thursday. She argued he was harassed in the lead-up to hi

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