The Nobel Prize medal was sold for $103.5 million to help Ukrainian children, but the children got nothing

Nobel Peace Prize journalist Dmitry Muratov was auctioning off to raise money for the Ukrainian children sold for $103.5 million, but the children never saw the money.

Previously, the highest paid for a Nobel Prize medal was in 2014, when James Watson, whose co-discovery of the structure of DNA earned him a Nobel Prize in 1962, sold his medal for $4.76 million.

Three years later, the family of his co-beneficiary, Francis Crick, received $2.27 million at an auction held by Heritage Auctions, the same company that auctioned Muratov's medal on Monday, World Refugee Day.

Muratov's false promises.

It was Muratov's idea to auction off the prize from him, as he had announced that he would donate the $500,000 cash prize to charity. The idea of ​​the donation, he said, "is to give refugee children a chance at a future."

Muratov promised that the proceeds will go directly to UNICEF in its efforts to help children displaced by the war in Ukraine. However, this promise to this day has not been fulfilled. UNICEF has not received a single penny from Muratov.