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Ukrainian oligarch at the center of Cleveland raid described as ‘ruthless’ businessman who laundered millions, records say
Cleveland.com ^ | August 5, 2020 | John Caniglia

Posted on 08/05/2020 4:07:29 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat

FBI and IRS agents Tuesday seized boxloads of evidence that could determine whether the Ukrainian oligarch, Igor Kolomoisky, laundered millions of dollars through Cleveland real estate.

A long-running investigation into Kolomoisky went public for the first time when agents searched the offices of Optima Management Group in One Cleveland Center at East 9th Street and St. Clair Avenue. Agents in Miami also searched a business there involving the company.

Authorities in Cleveland told The Plain Dealer and Cleveland.com last year that authorities have been involved in a wide-ranging investigation involving Kolomoisky, whom one analyst called one of Ukraine’s most controversial figures.

Kolomoisky is a principal of the Privat Group, a large Ukrainian business company. Principals of the business also part of Optima. In a lawsuit filed last year in Delaware, Kolomoisky was accused of laundering hundreds of millions of dollars through real estate holdings in the United States...

(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: igorkolomoisky; kolomoisky; moneylaundering; optima; privatgroup; ukraine; ukraineoligarch
I wonder how long running the investigation was. Did it start before 2017?

Further down the article: "Last year, he refused to set up a meeting with President Trump’s ally, Rudy Giuliani, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in an attempt to find political dirt against Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden."

I suppose the write is real proud of himself for getting what he supposes is a dig in of Trump.

But this dig works against the context in the article, which basically makes Kolomoisky out to be a piece of sh*t.

Then again, maybe the writer is becoming a bit redpilled and doesn't want to let on, so makes sure to throw the Left's scent off by writing this line.

1 posted on 08/05/2020 4:07:29 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
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To: CheshireTheCat

Clicked Early Life.


2 posted on 08/05/2020 4:17:44 PM PDT by cdcdawg (Biden has dementia.)
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To: cdcdawg

It'll always come back to these two corrupt bastards.

3 posted on 08/05/2020 4:37:20 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (Heartless Republican Gutter Rat)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Am I the only person who is having cognitive dissonance between “Cleveland”and “millions of dollars of real estate?”

Cleveland...? Cleveland...? The Mistake by the Lake?


4 posted on 08/05/2020 7:14:40 PM PDT by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Kolomoisky was accused of laundering hundreds of millions of dollars through real estate holdings in the United States

Which politicians helped him do this?
He had to buy them and bankers to do this.


5 posted on 08/05/2020 8:08:00 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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