May 10, 2021
A Florida federal judge paused litigation on Monday filed by the U.S. government looking to seize properties in Texas and Ohio allegedly connected to a Ukrainian money laundering scheme, while leaving for another day whether to toss parallel litigation targeting a 31-story skyscraper in Kentucky.
March 02, 2021
The United States urged a Florida federal court to not send a pair of Ukrainian money laundering suits to arbitration, claiming the civil forfeiture proceedings for properties allegedly bought with dirty money could be traced to U.S. law violations.
February 22, 2021
The U.S. must face a second arbitration accusing it of overstepping its authority, this time for targeting a 22-story office building in Ohio for forfeiture, which the U.S. Department of Justice claims was connected to a money laundering scheme involving billions of dollars stolen from Ukraine's largest bank.
August 06, 2020
The U.S. government is trying to seize commercial real estate properties in Louisville, Kentucky, and Dallas valued at a combined $70 million, which it claims in suits filed Thursday were acquired using funds misappropriated from one of Ukraine's largest banks.