This is a huge lot in Palm Bach FL. There is not an abundance of those.
But if all you're going to do is subdivide it, you don't need a huge lot.
The Russian got 37 million for a third of it after he subdivided.
Not quite. He got $34 million for 38% of it. Not exactly a profit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maison_de_L'Amitie
You're not making any sense here. How is it he can't freely spend it and then he very publicly spends it in the biggest home transaction in American History?
If he does a transaction for big dollars at one amount, and then sells the property in chunks at different amounts, it has an apparently legitimate paper trail, and it's more difficult to trace the money back to a nefarious transaction.
Again, you're not making any sense here. He offered real estate for sale and someone bought it.
How is that Laundering?
Likewise, if you offer a box for sale, and someone buys it, how could that be a crime?
Well, obviously because of the details you're deliberately leaving out. Say if the box were full of cocaine. Or, in the case of the real estate transaction, if he knows that the money is dirty and does the transaction to deliberately help conceal its origins, that would also be a crime.
It's not clear from this transaction that that happened here. It's just suspicious.
I don't think you understand what laundering is if you think buying something expensive constitutes laundering. The money didn't become clean by going to Trump.
I'm inclined to ask you what you think money laundering does look like, but to save a bit of time, here:
http://www.gfintegrity.org/issue/money-laundering/
See, it's (obviously) not that buying something expensive constitutes money laundering. But buying something expensive, especially passing that property through a shell company, that can be an essential component of money laundering. All of these elements are present in the property sale we're talking about.
This may not be money laundering. And even if it is, Trump may have enough deniability to get away with it. But it's suspicious, especially given some of Trump's history.