Igor Olenicoff
Igor Olenicoff is an American billionaire and real estate developer. He has been convicted of tax evasion stemming from his use of off-shore companies and Swiss banks to hide his financial assets.
- Russian immigrant Igor Olenicoff fled the Soviet Union with his family at age 15, and eventually built up a substantial real estate empire.
- His Olen Properties owns 8 million square feet of office space and 15,000 residential units in California and four other U.S. states.
- In 2007, Olenicoff pleaded guilty to lying on his tax return about keeping $200 million in offshore accounts, and agreed to pay $52 million in taxes.
