US sues to confiscate property associated with Kolomoisky and Bogolyubov
The United States demands the confiscation of property associated with Igor Kolomoisky and Gennady Bogolyubov. The US Department of Justice believes that the assets should be seized because of a violation of the law on money laundering.
The decision will be heard by the District Court for the Southern District of Florida. This is the fourth lawsuit in the Kolomoisky case in the United States.
More than $6 million was raised from the sale of commercial real estate in Dallas. It was kept and improved thanks to the plunder and fraud with Privatbank in Ukraine. This money is subject to forfeiture based on violation of federal money laundering laws,
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The lawsuits allege that Kolomoisky and Bogolyubov laundered illegal money through multiple banks. Only after that the oligarchs transferred them to the USA.
Kolomoisky bought real estate in the United States for the money of Ukrainians
Americans Mordechai Korf and Uriel Laber, associates of Kolomoisky and Bogolyubov, operated from offices in Miami. They created a network of Optima companies to further launder misappropriated money. They purchased hundreds of millions of dollars worth of real estate and businesses across the country.
Several Optima entities used profits from CompuCom’s Dallas real estate, bought with embezzled money, to pay for upgrades and maintenance of the Stemmons Towers buildings. In 2019, these buildings were sold. $6 million is still owned by the purpose-built company 87STE LLC.
The US Department of Justice wants to annul the trust deed and the related sale and purchase agreement.
