The Justice Department has moved to seize property from a powerful Ukrainian oligarch, according to court filings released Thursday. That oligarch has long been seen as allied with Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky. Both men were important characters in the saga that led to President Donald Trump's impeachment.
DOJ announced it filed two civil forfeiture complaints on Thursday: one for an office park in Dallas, and the other for an office tower in Louisville. The department estimates the properties together are worth $70 million.
The complaints allege that Kolomoisky and his longtime business partner, Gennadiy Bogolyubov, embezzled and defrauded billions of dollars from a Ukrainian bank they owned, PrivatBank. The Ukrainian government seized control of that bank in 2016, and the top regulator who led that move subsequently faced a long series of death threats.
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