US seizure of oligarch Kolomoisky’s property may foreshadow criminal charges

The U.S. Department of Justice has accused Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky of fraud and money laundering and moved to seize his properties in the states of Kentucky and Texas. 

Kolomoisky, his business partner Gennadiy Bogolyubov and their U.S. associates Mordechai Korf and Uriel Laber have not been charged with a crime. The Department of Justice filed two civil forfeiture complaints, which would allow it to take $70 million in real estate where Kolomoisky’s ill-gotten gains were allegedly parked.