{"id":11615,"date":"2023-05-14T03:36:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T08:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=11615"},"modified":"2023-05-14T03:36:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T08:36:40","slug":"fbi-raids-2-russian-businessmens-condo-in-flas-trump-towers-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=11615","title":{"rendered":"FBI raids 2 Russian businessmen\u2019s condo in Fla\u2019s Trump Towers: report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Federal Bureau of Investigation descended on a luxury Florida condo owned by two Russian businessmen at Trump Towers of Sunny Isles Beach on Thursday, according to a report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A squad of FBI special agents and local police raided the third building of the Sunshine State complex, the Miami Herald reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The target of the search, Unit 4102, is owned by the shell company MIC-USA LLC, which is controlled by Russian businessmen Oleg Sergeyevich Patsulya and Agunda Konstantinovna Makeeva, property records show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A spokesperson for the FBI\u2019s Miami field office told the outlet it \u201cwas conducting court-ordered law enforcement activity in the vicinity of that location,\u201d but provided no other information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neither Patsulya and Makeeva responded to the Miami Herald\u2019s request for comment and could not be reached Saturday by The Post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patsulya\u2019s wife, Roza Pereira \u2014 who is listed on the corporate paperwork for MIC-USA \u2014 told the outlet she was aware of the raid but was prohibited from disclosing information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t talk about it,\u201d Pereira said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe lawyer [for my husband] said not to talk to anyone. \u2026 I have no idea what it\u2019s about.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former president Donald Trump licensed his name to the three luxury high-rise condos in the years before he took office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Property records show that MIC-USA bought their 41st-story, three-bedroom condo in 2013 for $1.65 million a decade ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patsulya and Makeeva were sued by BAC Florida Bank \u2014 which financed their condo buy \u2014 seven years later for allegedly defaulting on the $975,000 mortgage on the property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dispute was resolved and the condo is still owned by the two Russians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunny Isles Beach has been dubbed \u201cLittle Moscow\u201d thanks to the influx of Russian immigrants and wealth that has flowed through the city in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neither Trump International Beach Resort, which oversees the towers, nor the Sunny Isles Police Department could not be immediately reached for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/05\/13\/fbi-raids-florida-trump-tower-owned-by-russians-report\/\">Nypost<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Bureau of Investigation descended on a luxury Florida condo owned by two Russian businessmen at Trump Towers of Sunny Isles Beach on Thursday, according to a report. A squad of FBI special agents and local police raided the third building of the Sunshine State complex, the Miami Herald reported. The target of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1226,419,1437,4910],"class_list":["post-11615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-attack","tag-fbi","tag-florida","tag-trump-tower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11617,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615\/revisions\/11617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}