Miami Real Estate Broker Pleads Guilty to Sanctions Evasion in Helping Oligarchs Sell Property
A Miami real estate broker pleaded guilty to scheming to violate U.S. sanctions by helping sanctioned Russian oligarchs Viktor Perevalov and Valeri Abramov rent, sell and transfer ownership of their South Florida condominiums, DOJ announced. The Office of Foreign Assets Control fined the broker, Roman Sinyavsky, and his firm, Family International Realty, over $1 million for the sanctions evasion (see 2501160051).
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From January 2018 to around March 2023, Sinyavsky worked with others to skirt U.S. sanctions and commit money laundering by "maintaining, transferring, selling, and leasing several luxury condominiums in the Miami area" owned by the oligarchs, then using the proceeds to maintain the properties, DOJ said. Sinyavsky faces a maximum five-year prison sentence.
DOJ earlier this year seized two of the condominiums that Sinyavsky’s firm had helped manage (see 2501090038).