The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a civil forfeiture complaint alleging that commercial property in Ohio was acquired by misappropriated funds from PrivatBank, a Ukrainian bank, as part of a loan scheme. Three DOJ complaints filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida alleged that PrivatBank’s owners, Ihor Kolomoisky and Gennadiy Boholiubov, “embezzled and defrauded the bank of billions of dollars,” according to a news release from the agency on Wednesday. The two Ukrainian nationals “obtained fraudulent loans and lines of credit from approximately 2008 through 2016, when the scheme was uncovered, and the bank was nationalized by the National Bank of Ukraine,” the agency wrote. In that time period, according to the complaints, the two laundered some of their money by using shell companies’ bank accounts, including PrivatBank’s branch in Cyprus. Then, officials alleged, they transferred the laundered money to the United States. “As alleged in the complaint, …