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PANAMA CITY/TORONTO - In the spring of 2007, a succession of foreigners, many from Russia, arrived at Panama City airport to be greeted by a chauffeur who whisked them off in a white Cadillac with a Donald Trump logo on the side.
The limousine belonged to a business run by a Brazilian former car salesman named Alexandre Ventura Nogueira, who was offering the visitors a chance to invest in Trumps latest project a 70-floor tower called the Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower. It was the future U.S. presidents first international hotel venture, a complex including residential apartments and a casino i
n a waterfront building shaped like a sail.
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A Reuters investigation into the financing of the Trump Ocean Club, in conjunction with the American broadcaster NBC News, found Nogueira was responsible for between one-third and one-half of advance sales for the project. It also found he did business with a Colombian who was later convicted of money laundering and is now in detention in the United States; a Russian investor in the Trump project who was jailed in Israel in the 1990s for kidnap and threats to kill; and a Ukrainian investor who was arrested for alleged people-smuggling while working with Nogueira and later convicted by a Kiev court.
Three years after getting involved in the Trump Ocean Club, Nogueira was arrested by Panamanian authorities on charges of fraud and forgery, unrelated to the Trump project. Released on $1.4 million bail, he later fled the country.
He left behind a trail of people who claim he cheated them, including over apartments in the Trump project, resulting in at least four criminal cases that eight years later have still to be judged.
Nogueira, 43, denies the charges and told Reuters in an email: I am no Angel but not Devil either.
Ivanka Trump declined to comment on her dealings with Nogueira. A White House spokesman referred questions to the Trump Organization. Alan Garten, the organizations chief legal officer, said: No one at the Trump Organization, including the Trump family, has any recollection of ever meeting or speaking with this individual.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-panama/
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Hmmm.
orangecrush
(19,617 posts)boggles the mind.
It's hard to believe these people are in the White House.
brush
(53,843 posts)You can say that again.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)orangecrush
(19,617 posts)Collective amnesia.
rpannier
(24,338 posts)you say, 'recall'
orangecrush
(19,617 posts)lastlib
(23,286 posts)...NOT in a Cabinet position!
shraby
(21,946 posts)orangecrush
(19,617 posts)We are in fora Mueller barrage in the next couple of weeks.
This is a dangerous time for our democracy.