I wonder if this is our same guy Dmitry Kovtun, check out website of company....
http://www.vfbs.ru/team.htm
Managing Partner, is responsible for business development, company strategy and marketing. Prior to joining VFBS Dmitry worked at Gazprom and the Alfa Group. Dmitry graduated from Moscow State University of International Relations (MGIMO), International Business Administration, and has a Master of Law Degree. Dmitry speaks both Russian and English.
Russian Law Enforcers Prevent 450 Terror Attacks in 2005 — Interior Minister
Created: 17.02.2006 16:28 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 16:28 MSK
MosNews
A total of 450 terrorist attacks were prevented in Russia last year, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said at an expanded session of the ministry’s board in Moscow on Friday.
“Search operations helped prevent 450 terrorist attacks [on Russian territory], of them 290 in the Chechen republic,” the Interfax news agency quoted the minister as sayingsaid.
The number of terrorist attacks committed in the country declined by 25% last year, the minister said. Investigations into more than 60% of terrorist attacks were successful, he said.
http://mosnews.com/news/2006/02/17/nurgaliev.shtml
Davey, I would think it is the same Dmitry.
I understand what they are doing, as I worked with the same type clients here, but of course not on their level of money.
From the looks of it, one of them has a good eye/feel for real estate, they choose the land and put a plan on it, then go out and sell the "plan" and call it a project.
25 years ago, a man was fishing and staying at the casinos, he went for a drive and decided that this valley would serve as a nice bedroom town for workers in the casinos, and as there were new casinos planned and each would hire 1500 to 3000 workers, the time was here.
We were already subdivisions, mostly 2 1/2 acre lots and a few parcels in 40 acre parcels, as Crystall Collins had the idea to subdivide it in the late 1950's.
She once told me, she had the idea that poor people would buy it and the very old ranches were being sold, so she got her brothers to go in with her and they bought thousands of acres of land.
She had maps drawn and put in the corner stakes, pieces of wood at first, later units got rebar driven in the ground.
During the 1960's she sold the lots for $300 to $600. each and the ads were every place, she said one of the best, was in the military magazines.
The wives would buy them, as a surprise for the overseas husband and would manage the $10.oo amonth payment.
One wife told me she took it out of the food money.
So the fisherman, bought a couple lots, and split them in half, then resold them for 2 or 3 times what he paid, he followed Crystal's plan, low down and low monthly payments.
I would often list back a parcel in 2 or 3 pieces, the day escrow closed.
But they knew how to raise money, and would find the best lots, for their "Investors" and charge them half, for the leg work, and all was happy, the first seller got the cash they asked for and the secon set of buyers, got the payments and terms, that made the lot affordable.
The guys even extended the water lines, as the lot was worth triple and more, with water.
The first Iraq war, killed us over night, there were several large projects planned and months had been put into getting the plans drawn, the needed approval, for all the utilities, not an easy thing in an area on well water.
When they went to their investors for money, they found many were in Iraq fighting.
Most folks do not really understand what these wars do to the retired man, when they call him up and the family looses the money from his regular job, there were some real hardship cases in southern California.
I had a man cancel 7 escrows, the day his orders came to him. He was on his way and investment property was not important.
I was thinking of the corner 40 acres that I sold a client, he caught me on a cold rainy day, when I went to the office to check for messages on the ans. machine, and was wanting in on the fishermans action, he knew him in Calif........I was the only real estate person he could find.
He paid about $20,000. for 40 acres, with 660' of frontage on Hwy 68, in the middle of the valley.
No one would buy it, as the wash crossed the road onto the west side of the lot and ran down the side, the rest was a very nice parcel and even then it was about $10,000 underpriced.
In the next 5 years, he put a fancy plan on it for a trailer park, senior citizen type, a shopping mall and business offices.
And put a price tag on it of 5.4 million dollars.
Not bad wages for a blue print and 5 years of his life, lots of leg work, but he was good at talking to the planning and zoning, LOL, he could out talk them and they said yes to get rid of him.
I am of the impression that Linvinenko and his gang were up the above type of operation.
Find a good deal, find the investors and take a cut, or a commission and then go on to the next deal.
You do not need a lot of money to be the front man.
In the mid 1960's, I worked in real estate in Ramona california.
There was a man, from the Beverly Hills area, he had found a group of doctors to put up the money for raw land.
The man's wife had a good job, so this guy, would find an extra special parcel of land, the doctors bought it and the guy was taking a 20 % interest in the property as his commission.
They never put a plan on the land, but had it to sell to the subdividers.
10 years later, Ramona exploded and they had the choice parcels already bought.
OK< LOL, there is your info needed to be an investment counselor.