Pink-handed: Chagit Leviev-Sofiev, daughter of a Russian oligarch, purchased a Fortieth-floor condominium in Trump Tower.
Reuters
Chagit Leviev-Sofiev, the daughter of diamond-dealing and actual property oligarch Lev Leviev (a pal of Vladimir Putin, Mr. Leviev advised the Instances he retains a photograph of Putin on his desk), has purchased a condominium in Trump Tower for $1.42 million.
From New York, Leviev-Sofiev runs her father’s enterprise pursuits within the US, the place she is president and CEO of Leviev Group USA and heads Leviev Diamonds USA.
Final yr, Leviev — often known as the “King of Diamonds” — and his daughter have been the topic of some suspicious exercise reviews submitted by JPMorgan Chase to the US Treasury, in line with the Worldwide Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which analyzed the reviews, as a part of the so-called FinCEN leaks.
Leviev and Leviev-Sofiev, by means of a lawyer, denied wrongdoing, in line with reviews.
Leviev additionally made headlines in 2016, when cops shut down a Lincoln Tunnel lane to present Leviev a private police escort.
By 2018, Leviev’s son and brother have been arrested in Israel as a part of a sting involving the smuggling of $81 million price of diamonds into the nation.
One in all Leviev’s staffers who was questioned was discovered useless, having tumbled out of a window at Israel’s diamond alternate. Leviev, needed for questioning, has stayed in Russia.
The 1,127-square-foot condominium, on the Fortieth flooring of Trump Tower, at 721 Fifth Ave., went in the marketplace for $1.57 million final November and closed on Dec. 23.
The vendor was Ilya Zavolynov. The itemizing dealer was Douglas Elliman’s Monika Kaputa.
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