The historic voyage of the Bayeux Tapestry to London’s British Museum has been a popular sensation, with VIPs like the UK’s King Charles and French president Emmanuel Macron attending a reception to welcome the famed 11th-century embroidery. Tens of thousands of people vied for tickets. The fragile artwork was allowed to travel only after the French supreme court tore up a lawsuit aiming to stop the loan and a painstaking French study said it would be safe to undertake the trip.

It has now emerged that Belarus-born billionaire Igor Tulchinsky, who supported the history-making voyage, to the tune of £5 million ($6.8 million), according to Middle East Eye, also supported a yurt in a community center in Efrat, an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank. The British Museum did not immediately respond to a request for comment.