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Buyers connected to Russia or former Soviet republics made 86 all-cash sales totaling nearly $109 million at 10 Trump-branded properties in Florida and NYC. Many of them made purchases using shell companies designed to obscure their identities. mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-…
Aleksandr Burman, a Ukrainian who engaged in a health care scheme that cost the federal government $26 million and was sentenced to a decade in prison, paid $725,000 cash for a condo at a Trump Tower I in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla. in 2009.
Leonid Zeldovich, who has reportedly done extensive business in the Russian-annexed area of Crimea, bought four Trump units outright at a cost of more than $4.35 million, three of them in New York City between 2007 and 2010.
Igor Romashov, who served as chairman of the board of Transoil, a Russian oil transport company subject to U.S. sanctions, paid $620,000 upfront for a unit at a building adorned with Trump’s name on it in Florida.
