U.S. Forfeits Ukrainian Oligarch’s Properties
The U.S. brought forfeiture lawsuits against two office properties worth $70 million and allegedly acquired with money that Ukrainian oligarchs Ihor Kolomoisky and Gennadiy Boholiubov misappropriated from a bank they owned. Federal prosecutors filed forfeiture complaints against a Louisville, Kentucky, office tower known as PNC Plaza and a Dallas office park that’s the former CompuCom headquarters. Kolomoisky and Boholiubov allegedly stole billions of dollars from PrivatBank through fraudulent loans and lines of credit between 2008 and 2016 when they were still the owners, according to the statement. Prosecutors say they laundered the funds through shell companies and invested hundreds of millions of dollars in real estate and businesses in the U.S. The forfeiture lawsuits come just days after the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided offices in Miami and Cleveland whose addresses corresponded with those of Optima Management Group, the company U.S. prosecutors say facilitated the oligarchs’ money laundering and investments.
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