OLIGARCH LUXURY: While US prosecutors battle with billionaire Igor Kolomoisky over his US real estate empire, his superyacht -- the Lauren L -- is moored near Bulgaria's Black Sea. The weekly charter rate is $732,000, complete with movie theatre, gym, library, pool, massage room.
Meanwhile, prosecutors continue to wage a legal battle to seize his US real estate, including two sprawling office parks in Dallas and a 31-story office tower in the heart of downtown Louisville. #fraud#oligarch
This 296-foot superyacht owned by oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, valued at $75 million, also features 20 suites, a sauna and heliport. In one of the staterooms: a baby grand.
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US prosecutors said "millions of dollars" were moved by Ihor Kolomoisky and others through companies in the United States as they acquired 13 steel mills and five skyscrapers along with two office parks and a cell phone factory. Unsealed documents now show it was $4.45 billion.
TRAGIC: A roof collapsed on workers removing asbestos at an Ohio steel factory owned by oligarch Igor Kolomoisky just months after a fire swept through the facility. The oligarch used the factory in a massive laundering scheme and then closed it in 2016, feds say.
The workers were able to escape yesterday (Feb. 2), but one man lost part of a finger, says @21WFMJ wfmj.com/story/45798752…
The sprawling complex in Warren, Ohio was abandoned by Kolomoisky and his associates in 2016 after running millions in stolen dollars from Ukraine through the facility in a vast laundering scheme, say US prosecutors
OLIGARCH'S SECRET TROPHY: How Ihor Kolomoisky and his partners secretly dominated the real estate of a major American city with hundreds of millions in stolen money -- and no trace of ownership. #moneylaundering post-gazette.com/news/crime-cou…
Kolomoisky’s venture into Cleveland, under a web of offshore companies, remains one of the most troubling examples of what’s gone wrong with financial transparency laws and how an oligarch dominated the real estate of a major American city without ever disclosing his ownership.
The pipeline of millions into Cleveland and other places has already prompted a grand jury investigation that led FBI agents last year to raid Optima’s landmark skyscraper, One Cleveland Center. That same day, the FBI also descended on Optima’s 55-story penthouse in Miami.
ARSON PROBE: Minutes before a suspicious fire at an Ohio steel factory owned by Ukraine oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky -- suspect in massive U.S. money laundering scheme -- an SUV was seen leaving scene. OH fire marshal's office, which suspects arson, is scoping videos. No arrests yet.
Prosecutors say Warren Steel was used by oligarch Kolomoisky in laundering scheme that stretched from Ukraine to Texas: nearly two dozen prime properties.
Fire on August 11th still under investigation by Ohio fire marshal.