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Florida Couple Suspect on Multi-Million Realty Scheme |
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Tuesday, 20 March 2007 |
In North Miami Beach, a couple is gone as investigators try to unravel a giant real estate scheme. Near the hand-painted statues and gilded gold lions, a small bronze sign remains posted above the doorbell. Wolf Residence, it says, in bold block letters. But Natalia and Victor Wolf no longer live in this five-bedroom South Florida mansion.
They took their infant daughter, Emily, with them. They slipped out late one October night, leaving behind ransacked rooms filled with baby bottles and designer furniture. Unfinished white molding stretches halfway across the gray stucco house. Now someone has changed the locks.
For nearly five months, FBI detectives have been investigating Sky Development Group, a company founded by Victor Wolf and registered in state filings to his wife, Natalia. In Which Allegations include claims that the company forged deeds and sold more than $1-million worth of property it didn't own in Citrus Springs, took millions of dollars for land without turning over the property to the buyers, closed land deals using a fake title company, and took money for new homes it never built or never finished. Up to $100-million may be at stake.
Detectives from the Citrus County Sheriff's Office and the North Miami Beach Police Department said they have turned over their files to the FBI and offered to assist however they can. An FBI spokeswoman said this week she could only confirm that the investigation is ongoing. But investigators are tight-lipped about their progress.
No charges have been filed and no arrests have been made in the case. But they know Natalia Wolf used her passport to enter Germany in October.
Home was for sale; meanwhile, the house is empty.
Home improvements are unfinished. Neighbors say a "For Sale" sign was removed from the front lawn earlier this month, but no one has moved in. Fallen palm fronds cover the grass. Fallen palm fronds cover the grass. A courier has taped a note to Natalia Wolf on the front door.
By: Jron Magcale
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