AFI Europe is a
real estate development
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and investment company operating in several main cities in Central and Eastern Europe.
AFI Europe predominantly focuses on the development of large scale residential and commercial projects, and is part of the
AFI Group, an international holdings and investments conglomerate.
Projects And Properties
The assets portfolio of AFI Europe consists of shopping malls and retail properties, business parks and office complexes, large-scale residential and mixed-use projects and income-yielding residential properties.
Among the company's outstanding assets are
AFI Palace Cotroceni, the largest shopping mall in
Bucharest
Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...
;
Airport City
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, a leading business park in
Belgrade
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; Classic 7, a famous office project in
Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...
; and
:pl:Osiedle Europejskie, a large-scale residential project in
Krakow
AFI Europe also has a large inventory of land for future development.
History
The company commenced its operations in 1997 and coordinates AFI Group activities in Europe, and is headquartered in the
Netherlands
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since 2006.
Controversy
During the
money laundering
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case ''
United States vs Prevezon Holdings'' which involved
Sergei Magnitsky
Sergei Leonidovich Magnitsky (russian: Сергeй Леонидович Магнитский, ; 8 April 1972 – 16 November 2009) was a Ukrainian-born Russian tax advisor responsible for exposing corruption and misconduct by Russian gover ...
companies stolen by
Denis Katsyv Denis Katsyv is a Ukrainian Russian and Israeli businessman based in Moscow and owner of Prevezon Holdings Limited. He was linked in a Civil forfeiture in the United States, civil-assets case to money laundering through real estate investments in th ...
, Prevezon Holdings accounts with AFI Europe were frozen but, after the out of court settlement was reached between
Joon Kim
Joon Hyun Kim (born May 26, 1971) is an American attorney who served as the acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from March 2017 to January 2018. He was Deputy U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York fr ...
, the acting US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and both
Louis Freeh
Louis Joseph Freeh (born January 6, 1950) is an American attorney and former judge who served as the fifth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from September 1993 to June 2001.
Graduated from Rutgers University and New York Universi ...
and
Natalia Veselnitskaya
Natalia Vladimirovna Veselnitskaya ( rus, Ната́лья Влади́мировна Весельни́цкая, p=nɐˈtalʲjə vʲɪsʲɪlʲˈnʲitskəjə; born 22 February 1975 Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a R ...
, who were attorneys for Prevezon, Prevezon stated that money to pay its $5.9 million fine would come from the Netherlands from more than $3 million that AFI Europe owed to Prevezon.
Countries of operation
AFI Europe owns, develops and manages properties and projects in
Serbia
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,
Czech Republic
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Germany
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,
Hungary
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,
Bulgaria
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,
Poland
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,
Latvia
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, and
Romania
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.
with on-the-ground teams comprising more than 150 professionals.
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