美国政府拍卖马来西亚富商涉案豪华酒店

近日美国政府将会拍卖一座位于好莱坞比弗利山庄的豪华酒店。该酒店曾为马来西亚富商刘诗佐所拥有，2016年刘因为通过马来西亚财政部旗下的1MD基金发展公司洗钱和挪用公款而被美国检方起诉。2019年美国检方取消对刘的指控，但没收了他近7亿美金的财产。这座即将被拍卖的酒店就是刘诗佐在美国最后的资产，据悉这家酒店有116 个房间，每晚要价为$600，美国政府的预计成交价至少为1亿美金，这些钱将会被美国政府用来赔偿收到欺骗的投资者们。

For sale: Boutique hotel, convenient to Hollywood. 116 rooms, rooftop pool, jet-setting clientele. Previous owner spent $40 million on renovations before becoming an international fugitive. Asking price: $100+ million.
If that sounds like a steal — even in the middle of a global pandemic that has nearly ground travel to a halt — the Viceroy L’Ermitage Beverly Hills could be yours. Just contact the U.S. government.The property was commandeered from Jho Low, a financier turned fugitive whom authorities in the United States and Malaysia described as the architect of a brazen scheme that also ensnared a prime minister and one of Wall Street’s most powerful banks, Goldman Sachs. The stolen money was used to buy everything from paintings by Van Gogh and Monet to a custom-built yacht to a see-through grand piano. Some of the cash helped finance “The Wolf of Wall Street,” which earned Leonardo DiCaprio a Golden Globe for his performance as the stock-market scammer Jordan Belfort.  Now the hotel — the last of Mr. Low’s marquee properties to be sold by federal authorities — is being auctioned off, with proceeds to be split between the governments of Malaysia and the United States.  source

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