FBI raids Miami office during probe into billionaire's alleged money laundering
MIAMI – FBI agents raided a 55th-floor office overlooking Biscayne Bay on Tuesday in downtown Miami. The search for evidence is part of a money-laundering investigation related to alleged bank fraud in Ukraine, a source with the FBI said. The case related to the raid is under seal. Federal agents were at the Southeast Financial Center tower office that two Miami businessmen, Mordechai “Motti’” Korf and Uriel “Uri” Laber, use to run several companies. No one was detained during the raid.
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FBI Cleveland Special Agent Vicki Anderson told Cleveland’s ABC News affiliate the raid in Miami was connected to a raid at the offices of The Optima Management Group, a commercial real estate management and investment firm based in Cleveland, Ohio.
The Optima Management Group is partly owned by Ihor Kolomoyskyi, a Cypriot-Ukrainian billionaire with Israeli citizenship. Kolomoyskyi was allegedly involved in the $5.5 billion fraud at the largest commercial bank in Ukraine. An accusation he has denied.
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‘UKRAINEGATE’ CONNECTION
Kolomoyskyi is also known for accusing former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, of orchestrating a conspiracy against Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Giuliani then accused Kolomoisky of threatening two of his clients, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, two South Florida businessmen who were born in the Soviet Union.
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Thank you for that link. It's dated in 2019, so it gives a good back story.
The article didn't come out and say Putin, it just mentions the Kremlin considers him in a very bad light as he supports Ukraine's new president. I took the liberty of equating Putin with the Kremlin, then added Donald's administration as one reason they may be going after him.
I don't trust any of this. He may be a bad guy, but he's enemies of even badder guys at the Kremlin.
I see this as Donald, Barr, and cohorts playing dirty politics against Biden. Maybe he should flee to his home in Israel if he's not already there.
I wish I knew and understood more. But as you can tell, I don't, lol.
Again, thank you, I appreciate that link you posted.
