IC Expert CEO Andrey Rozov behind mysterious purchase of NY building tied to Felix Sater and Aras Agalarov

The CEO of the developer of Trump Tower Moscow was behind a mysterious New York real estate transaction in late 2015, just as the Trump Organization was negotiating to build in Moscow with the developer.

In a letter exclusively obtained by BuzzFeed News, Andrey Rozov, the CEO of IC Expert wrote in September 2015 that he recently acquired an office building in New York:

I also own a 12 story office building in Manhattan at 22 West 38th Street, which I acquired last year

The property and its sale shrouded in secrecy, was first written about in 2018 by independent journalist Wendy Siegelman. At the time, it was unclear who actually purchased the property for $35 million in 2014, but now it can be reported that the man behind the purchase was in fact Andrey Rozov, per his own admission.

Rozov sold the property in 2015, in the midst of the negotiations for Trump Tower Moscow for a whopping $43.5 million, a profit of over $8 million. The buyer of the property was three LLCs controlled by Dalan Management, a Property management company in New York City. It appears as though Dalan Management’s purchase of the property was a legitimate transaction, though it is unclear why Rozov sold the building so…