The US authorities filed a lawsuit against the famous Ukrainian businessman: what he is accused of

The financial transactions of the Ukrainian entrepreneur attracted a lot of attention of the American justice and media. Air force.

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What is imputed to a businessman

The United States accuses Ukrainian businessman Igor Kolomoisky, “who appeared in the Trump impeachment saga,” of laundering billions of dollars, writes the Washington Post.

“On Thursday, August 6, the Department of Justice charged a Ukrainian oligarch, believed to be an ally of the Ukrainian president, with stealing billions of dollars from a bank he once owned and later using a wide range of companies to launder that money in the United States and around the world. ", writes the publication.

In a civil forfeiture lawsuit seeking to seize commercial real estate in Kentucky and Texas, the Justice Department said that Igor Kolomoisky and his business partner Gennady Bogolyubov allegedly used so many funds from PrivatBank that the National Bank of Ukraine had to provide $5,5 billion to the institution. to “prevent an economic crisis for the entire country.”

According to The Washington Post, experts are expressing growing concern that American real estate (in particular, factories and facilities that are important to American industry) has become a magnet for foreign money, including income generated by roundabout abroad.

Kolomoisky's lawyers have denied such charges against their client.

The newspaper quotes a statement from the former owner of PrivatBank, in which he notes that all the money used to purchase American real estate was his own, received as a result of an agreement concluded with a mining company in 2007 and 2008, as well as from other enterprises who had banking relations with PrivatBank.

According to the publication, Kolomoisky, who made his fortune during the period of “turbulent capitalism” after the collapse of the USSR, is one of the richest people in Ukraine and allegedly has ties to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.

He was rumored to have played a role in the events that led to the impeachment process of President Trump last year.

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What's in the assets

The local news site Cleveland.com also reported details of the possible confiscation of Kolomoisky's assets in Ohio.

Just days after federal agents searched a Cleveland office building linked to a Ukrainian oligarch, prosecutors sought to seize $70 million worth of property in Texas and Kentucky linked to the oligarch and his associates.

Prosecutors have filed two civil claims for confiscation of property in the US District Court in Miami, Florida, alleging that office buildings in Dallas and Louisville were bought with laundered money by Igor Kolomoisky and others.

The documents state that Kolomoisky and Bogolyubov, with the help of accomplices in Miami, allegedly acquired land plots throughout the country, including more than 5 million square meters. feet (464,5 thousand sq. m) of commercial real estate in Ohio.

In addition, they allegedly acquired the CompuCom campus of 19,5 acres (7,9 hectares), an office park in Dallas and PNC Plaza, an office tower in Louisville. The government is now seeking to confiscate them.

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