The gold Nobel Peace Prize medal auctioned off by Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov to raise money for Ukrainian child refugees sells for $US103.5 million, shattering the old record for such a sale.
auctioned off by Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov to raise money for Ukrainian child refugees fetched $US103.5 million on Monday night , shattering the old record for such a sale.Dmitry Muratov will donate proceeds of auction to UNICEF to benefit Ukrainian child refugeesPreviously, the most ever paid for a Nobel Prize medal was $US4.76 million in 2014
"I was hoping that there was going to be an enormous amount of solidarity, but I was not expecting this to be such a huge amount," Muratov said in an interview after bidding in the nearly three-week auction ended on World Refugee Day. It was Muratov's idea to auction off his prize, having already announced he was donating the accompanying $US500,000 cash award to charity.
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