the only problem living in london is british courts convict convicted him of the problems with the bank. he fled the u.k. and went instead to france which he also liked very much. he had a very nice villa in france that was lovely until it turned out the people working around the villa he thought were gardeners were actually french police officers in disguise who had turned up and dressed up as gardeners to surprise him and arrest him. so they got that guy. but it has now been a long saga of many years of trying to find all his money, trying to trace the billions of dollars that he was convicted of misappropria misappropriati misappropriating. bloomberg news reported in december on court filings that allege some of that money, some of that kazakhstan money can also be traced to trump s soho. three trump soho condos bought
various courts that the government s allegations are basically true, which is that large amounts of money were elicillicitly removed and laund into the united states apparently, allegedly. so there was a civil case, at least one civil case involving money launderers. felix sater had connections with the people. there is media reports that the money went into the trump soho or company that built the trump soho, a company felix sater and donald trump were involved in together. all right. there is one last thing here and then there is the part of it that s insane that s going to make part of your day tomorrow at least partially insane. the one last thing to know about this kazakhstan stuff and trump, is what it might take to nail any of this stuff down. if say, someone were investigating him for potential criminal money laundering. if the president were going to be in trouble for any business dealings involving this sketchy
turns outwei basically all the money came from bta bank that could have cooked up the scheme. trump showed up there in georgia to headacmake it seem like that true but never built it. seems like they never intended to. the bank funded a ga zillibilli different companies to build this trump luxury hotel that would go up in this town. non-of t none of the companies have raels state real estate experience and turned out these new entities created and lavishly funded by bta bank turned out to be controlled by the chairman of the bank or people close to him. that was his m.o. that stole the money, lend it.
in a multi million cash purchase bought through shell companies but traced to the family of that guy who misappropriated those billions of dollars out of that giant bank. so kazakhstan story number one chrome, two, that guy needing to hide his money. both of those stories and up with trump soho getting the loot, right? and playing a key plot point. here is kazakhstan story number three. this is the only one we get pictures of the president. this one also is related to that bta bank, to the biggest bank in kazakhst kazakhstan, the one that got looted. another place besides trump soho where it looks like the bta bank money went is here in the nation of georgia. forms and adam davidson reported the story was about this sort of, i don t know, sort of sad
the largest land locked country in the world. it s like the ninth largest country in the world overall, it s a quarter the size of the united states. it s gigantic. bta bank was the biggest bank in kazakhstan. the chairman disappeared and fled the country and what they found after he was gone, that about half of the loan book for that entire bank, half the loan book appears to have been loans that the chairman made to himself. he would invent little companies or create companies all over the place and give them incredibly generous loans. he wasbank s money to himself, billions of dollars and disappeared with the money. needless to say, he was not planning on paying back the loans. he turned up in the u.k. which he found to his liking. he lived in a 15,000 square foot home and had 100-acre country estate.