Re: Emails Show Invanka Trump Involved in Panamanian real estate development scheme
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Date: October 26, 2020 08:18PM
Trump wanted to use the Panama project as a “baby” for Ivanka, Roger Khafif, a Panamian developer who pitched the deal to Trump in 2005, told Reuters.
She helped kickstart the project a year later by selecting a Brazilian former car salesman, Alexandre Ventura Nogueira, as a lead broker to sell units. He promised quick sales at high prices. Ventura’s firm, Homes Real Estate Investment & Services, delivered, selling 350 to 400 units, about $100m worth of property, he told Reuters and NBC.
He met Ivanka numerous times, met her brothers Eric and Donald Jr, and met the future president once, at a celebratory event in 2008 at Mar-a-Lago, the family’s Florida estate.
A year later, however, Ventura was arrested in Panama for real estate fraud, unrelated to the Trump project, and fled on bail.
Now a fugitive, the 43-year-old spoke from an undisclosed European city wearing a disguise.
Ventura said some of his brokers and clients who traded units in the Trump Ocean Club were connected to the Russian mafia and other organised crime groups.