Thread: Russian mafia-fighter owns million in Miami real estate

Russian mafia-fighter owns million in Miami real estate

Miami Herald · 12 hours ago


This Russian general fought the mob. Why does he own $38 million of Florida real estate?

BY NICHOLAS NEHAMAS, KEVIN G. HALL AND LILY DOBROVOLSKAYA
nnehamas@miamiherald.com

OCTOBER 20, 2017 6:00 AM

There is life after being one of Russia’s top crime fighters — and it can be very good.

Anatoly Petukhov gave up Moscow’s icy winters for the warm embrace of South Florida, where he’s amassed a $38 million portfolio of condos, office buildings and prime development sites, not to mention a 31-foot powerboat.

Petukhov is part of a wave of wealthy Russian businessmen and officials washing up in Miami. The local real estate industry — always happy to take cash with few questions asked — has welcomed him since he arrived in 2010.

So how did Petukhov make his fortune?

The retired policeman, 59, refused repeated interview requests from the Miami Herald. His biography suggests he may have good reason for avoiding the spotlight:

Petukhov served as a general in an elite law-enforcement unit dedicated to fighting organized crime. The task force was so corrupt — “the most criminalized structure within the police,” according to Louise Shelley, a professor at George Mason University — that it was reorganized and eventually shut down after a scandal involving its top official.

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