Isn’t Trump’s condo-building business model inappropriate for Moscow and Moscow’s oligarch-kleptocrats?
After all, the whole point of these expensive condos is laundering your ill-gotten Russian rubles out of the country and parking it in real estate. You don’t even ever set foot it in the purchased condo. It just sits there, possibly appreciating in value, possibly rented out (if you bother), and when you sell it, you have laundered money in the stable currency of that foreign country.
If you sell a condo in Moscow you bought with volatile, stolen rubles, you get: rubles, possibly traceable back to the source of their theft.
