The Cleveland Ukraine connection
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How Ukrainian Oligarchs Secretly Became the Largest Real Estate Owners in Downtown Cleveland
In an explosive legal complaint filed last month in Delaware, attorneys for a major Ukrainian bank alleged that two oligarchs who founded the bank and controlled it from 2006 to 2016 laundered hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent corporate loans to purchase assets in the United States and unjustly enrich themselves and their associates.
Dubbed the "Optima Schemes" in the 104-page document, these "brazen fraudulent schemes" were successful, among other things, in making the oligarchs and their co-defendants the largest commercial real estate holders in Cleveland.
https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2019/06/11/how-ukrainian-oligarchs-secretly-became-the-largest-real-estate-owners-in-downtown-cleveland
"Optima Schemes" mentioned in Congress September 25, 2019
https://www.congress.gov/116/crec/2019/09/25/CREC-2019-09-25-pt1-PgH7910.pdf
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