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El imperio Zaragoza Fuentes: la expansión gasera, la sombra del huachicol y el narco

Durante el gobierno de Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) cuantificó un quebranto de tres mil 303 millones 81 mil 348 pesos por robo de combustibles a través de tomas clandestinas en el país.

La familia Zaragoza Fuentes, cuyo patriarca es Miguel Zaragoza Fuentes, es propietaria de uno de los imperios más grandes de gas del continente: el Grupo Zeta Gas, empresa señalada por ser favorecida en su momento, por contratos con Pemex, otorgados por Juan Camilo Mouriño cuando era diputado federal y presidente de la Comisión de Energía; así como los presuntos vínculos con el crimen organizado. 

Durante el gobierno de Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) cuantificó un quebranto de tres mil 303 millones 81 mil 348 pesos por robo de combustibles a través de tomas clandestinas en el país. 

Oaxaca, San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, Guanajuato, Coahuila, Nuevo León y Chihuahua fueron las entidades donde más aumentó el reporte de tomas clandestinas a Pemex, de acuerdo con información de la empresa petrolera. 

El pasado 24 de julio, ocurrió una explosión de una pipa cargada con combustible proveniente del trasiego y contrabando de este líquido. Esto surgió a tan solo 500 metros de Leche Lucerna, propiedad de la familia Zaragoza Fuentes, propiedad de la familia Zaragoza Fuentes, y colindante con un terreno con el logo de Super Gas, dedicado a la venta de Gas LP y propiedad de la misma familia; dicho complejo se encuentra a un costado del patio donde Super Gas y Windstar realizan maniobras de trasvase en Chihuahua. 

El Grupo Agroindustrial Zaragoza está constituido por más de 30 empresas dedicadas en su mayoría a la producción, pasteurización y comercialización de leche fresca de vaca.

Basta recordar que en noviembre de 2024, un reporte de la Fiscalía General del Estado de Chihuahua detalló el aseguramiento de una pipa con 34 mil litros de combustible proveniente del "huachicol" en la entidad, que estaría operado por grupos del narcotráfico. 

La expansión de la empresa

Tras la aprobación de la reforma energética durante el sexenio de Enrique Peña Nieto, los Zaragoza expandieron el negocio de la gasolina. Fue entonces cuando nacieron las empresas Super Gasolineras de la Frontera y Gasolineras Windstar, propiedad de Marco Zaragoza Fuentes y Miguel Zaragoza Fuentes. Marco y Miguel son hijos de Miguel Zaragoza López y Élida Patricia Fuentes Varela y, a su vez, nietos de Miguel Zaragoza Fuentes.

La empresa opera al menos otras 2 marcas de expendio de gasolina: Phillips 66 y Estación 76. Que cuentan con presencia principalmente en Baja California, Chihuahua, Coahuila y Sonora; aunque también en Aguascalientes, Guanajuato y Zacatecas, en el caso de Phillips 66.

Desde 2021, Windstar ha estado envuelta en diversas irregularidades relacionadas con el contrabando y la adquisición de huachicol, así como señalamientos de implicación de corrupción.

Entre las irregularidades se refirió que las empresas excedían la cantidad autorizada de importación utilizando documentación falsa, declarando el producto como mercancía diversa como aceites, lubricantes o aditivos, con el objetivo presuntamente de evadir el pago del Impuesto Especial sobre Productos y Servicios (IEPS) y el Impuesto al Valor Agregado (IVA).

En julio de 2021, la Secretaría de Energía (Sener) y la Comisión Reguladora de Energía suspendieron el permiso de almacenamiento de combustibles a la empresa Petrolíferos Windstar de Sonora.

La Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera, el SAT y la Procuraduría Federal del Consumidor (Profeco) tenían documentadas denuncias en contra de la empresa desde hace cuatro años, como figuró en un informe de Sener. 

Chihuahua es considerada la sede del emporio gasero y gasolinero de la familia Zaragoza Fuentes. En dicha ciudad se han detectado actividades de trasvase de combustible observados en Piedras Negras.

Huachicol en Piedras Negras

Las pipas que aprovechan los patios ilegales de huachicoleo en Piedras Negras pertenecen a Transportes Nari, Transportes Rápidos Regionales (TRR), JRM Transportación de Hidrocarburos y Energética Carvel, todas ellas dedicadas al autotransporte de carga. La primera, Transportes Nari, fue constituida en 2014 en Matamoros, Tamaulipas, y cuenta con un permiso de la Comisión Reguladora de Energía (CRE) que le autoriza transportar el producto a Nuevo Laredo por medios distintos a ductos.

El rastro fiscal de Súper Gasolineras de la Frontera, principal empresa gasolinera de la familia Zaragoza, así como de Energética Carvel, cuya presencia se ha constatado en patios ilegales de Piedras Negras y Ciudad Juárez, lleva a dos empresas: AMCA Combustibles y V8 Garage. Estas empresas son, en conjunto, los principales proveedores de ambas empresas chihuahuenses por encima de MGC México, filial de Pemex.

De acuerdo con documentación del Registro Público de Comercio, Transportes Nari, Transportes Rápidos Regionales y JRM Transportación de Hidrocarburos, tienen o han tenido a Abel Escobedo Flores como accionista o administrador único, además de compartir representantes legales y apoderados, es decir, son parte del mismo grupo empresarial.

Los accionistas actuales de Transportes Nari son Abel Escobedo Flores y Daniel Mejía Robledo; mientras que Transportes Rápidos Regionales tiene como accionistas a María del Pilar Cano Nava, Gerardo Gómez Torres, Carlos Hernández Martínez, Alberto Riveros Hernández y Abel Escobedo Flores. Este último es contador público egresado de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León14 y empresario dedicado al sector energético con empresas en Ciudad de México y Monterrey. Los accionistas de JRM Transportación de Hidrocarburos son Jesami Ana Lucía Carrillo Félix y Jeraldhyne Carrillo Zavala. Por su parte, Energética Carvel es una empresa constituida en 2013 en Chihuahua, dedicada a la comercialización de gasolinas y diésel, y que ha sido acusada de huachicol y contrabando en 2018 y 2021.

Aunque los socios actuales de la empresa son Carlos Alberto Velázquez Nieto y su hijo Carlos Alberto Velázquez Díaz Luna, al momento de la creación de la empresa, el empresario Homar Prieto Barrera también formaba parte de la sociedad. Los empresarios Velázquez Nieto y Prieto Barrera han sido acusados del robo de combustibles.

Energética Carvel ha sido señalada por emitir facturas falsas, supuestamente por la proveniencia ilegal de los combustibles, y de mantener nexos de corrupción con el gobierno estatal que encabezó en ese entonces el político Javier Corral Jurado.

Pleito legales

Basta recordar que en 2022 ocurrió a disputa legal por el control de Grupo Zeta Gas, la empresa distribuidora de gas LP más importante del país con presencia en México, Europa, Estados Unidos, El Caribe, Centro y Sudamérica.

El caso se remonta a 2015 cuando el Juez Roy. L Moore, de Houston, Texas, otorgó a Evangelina López Guzmán de Zaragoza la mayor parte de las propiedades de este grupo, que le correspondía por ser la esposa del fundador de Zeta Gas, Miguel Zaragoza Fuentes, quien llegó contar con una fortuna superior a dos mil millones de dólares, convirtiéndolo en el hombre más rico de Ciudad Juárez.

"Un tribunal de divorcio de Texas, donde Zaragoza y López se casaron, se pronunció a favor de López y ordenó a Zaragoza que le cediera una parte importante de su imperio empresarial. Pero tras una serie de apelaciones y batallas legales que llegaron hasta la Suprema Corte de México, Zaragoza no ha acatado la orden", de acuerdo con lo referido en una investigación de Mexicanos contra la corrupción.

Huachicol en Hidalgo

Hidalgo –gobernado desde noviembre de 2022 por el morenista Julio Menchaca Salazar y antes por el expriista Omar Fayad Meneses– fue el estado más ordeñado del país durante el mandato de AMLO, con 26 mil 820 perforaciones; no obstante, en 2021, 2022, 2023 y desde enero hasta agosto de 2024 el daño por el hurto de gasolinas, diésel, gas, petroquímicos e incluso turbosina –un combustible para aviones–, está en ceros.

Hidalgo lideró el huachicol en el país con amplio margen de diferencia sobre sus seguidores, que llegó a ser del doble: en 2021, con cuatro mil 489 piquetes a ductos; en 2022, siguió a la cabeza con cinco mil 779; en 2023, con tres mil 675, y de enero a agosto de 2024 alcanzó mil 743.

En el último año de Enrique Peña Nieto la pérdida reconocida por el hurto de combustibles en la entidad hidalguense fue de mil 132 millones 75 mil 661 pesos, como resultado de 597 denuncias, aunque en esos 12 meses se detectaron picaduras en ductos dos mil 111 veces; más, porque de 2018 a 2019 las tomas clandestinas aumentaron 90.85% en Hidalgo, entre un fuego cruzado de organizaciones criminales dedicadas a este delito. 

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Homnifi Review: Xera Pro “mega Ponzi” collapses

Xera Pro launched in Dubai back in January 2024.

The “mega Ponzi” was a combination of three then recently collapsed Dubai Ponzis; Safir International (aka Neo ZenTech), Success Factory and The Blockchain Era (aka WeWe Global, LyoPay, LyoTrade and LyoWallet).

The serial fraudsters behind these collapsed Ponzi schemes took up prominent positions as Xero Pro’s “formation team”:

Henk Diepbrink – Xera Managing Director, Dutch national and former Managing Director of Safir

Werner Kaiser – Xera Global Vice President, part of Safir’s “Elite Circle of Trust” and former Lyoness Ponzi promoter

Diego Endrizzi – Xera Head of Global Sales, top Italian promoter of WeWe Global and The Blockchain Era

Gorka Buces – Xera Chief Visionary Officer, former CVO of the collapsed Xifra and Decentra Ponzi schemes

Nils Grossberg – Xera Head of Global Partnerships, founder and CEO of collapsed DagCoin and Success Factory Ponzi schemes

Following a Xero Pro securities fraud warning issued by Australia on April 23rd, affiliates began reporting withdrawals problems on or around July 15th.

This coincided with a “service update” announcement on the same day:

On August 3rd, Xera Pro announced it was rebooting as Homnifi.

Homnifi sees the scammers behind the collapsed XeraPro feeder Ponzis scuttle further into the background. Gorka Buces and Jose Gordo have been retconned as Xera Pro co-founders.

Jose Gordo, a former OneCoin Ponzi promoter who is on the run from Argentine authorities, entered Xera Pro as a WeWe Global and The Blockchain Era Ponzi promoter.

Gorka Buces has been promoted from Chief Visionary Officer to a Xera Pro co-founder.

Wener Kaiser has been demoted from Global Vice President to “Client Relations Specialist”.

Charbel Zalaquett and Goran Hemstrom are The Blockchain Era and WeWe Global Ponzi promoter imports.

Before his hasty fall-guy promotion to Homnifi “Head of Operations”, Zalaquett was still referring to himself as a Xera Pro “independent promoter” last month.

Someone else worth mentioning is Erwin Dokter, who’s behind “LayerK” and “WalleK”.

LayerK and WalleK are the cryptocurrency side of Xera Pro and now Homnifi.

Dokter is of course one of the scammers behind Safir International and its attached Zeniq Coin Ponzi scheme.

Homnifi has been set up on the domain (“homnifi.com”), privately registered on June 10th, 2024.

Xera Pro’s website is still up but seeing as it now serves no purpose, will probably be quietly disabled at some point.

On its website Homnifi represents it operates out of Homnifi International LTD, a British Virgin Islands shell company.

Like Xera Pro and its feeder Ponzis, Homnifi and its associated companies are all in fact operated from Dubai.

Due to the proliferation of scams and failure to enforce securities fraud regulation, BehindMLM ranks Dubai as the MLM crime capital of the world.

BehindMLM’s guidelines for Dubai are:If someone lives in Dubai and approaches you about an MLM opportunity, they’re trying to scam you.If an MLM company is based out of or represents it has ties to Dubai, it’s a scam.

If you want to know specifically how this applies to Homnifi, read on for a full review.

Homnifi’s Products

Homnifi markets passive returns through LayerK crypto mining and Quantwise bot trading.

Homnifi MiniMax – pay $100 to be able to invest up to $1000 into LayerK mining and $500 into Quantwise bot trading

Homnifi AirStream – pay $500 to be able to invest up to $5000 into LayerK mining and $5000 into Quantwise bot trading

Homnifi Breeze – pay $1500 to be able to invest up to $15,000 into LayerK mining and $15,000 into Quantwise bot trading

Homnifi Cyclone – pay $4500 to be able to invest up to $45,000 into LayerK mining and $45,000 into Quantwise bot trading

Homnifi Dynamo – pay $10,000 to be able to invest up to $100,000 into LayerK mining and $100,000 into Quantwise bot trading

Homnifi Elevate – pay $25,000 to be able to invest up to $250,000 into LayerK mining and an unlimited amount of money into Quantwise bot trading

Homnifi Flash – pay $50,000 to be able to invest an unlimited amount of money into LayerK mining and Quantwise bot trading

There’s also some “supernode” nonsense that pays 2% to 10% returns starting at the Homnifi Breeze investment tier.

Homnifi’s Compensation Plan

Homnifi’s compensation plan pays on the sale of access to LayerK mining and Quantwise bot trading passive returns to retail customers and recruited affiliates.

Homnifi Affiliate Ranks

There are ten affiliate ranks within Homnifi’s compensation plan.

Along with their respective qualification criteria, they are as follows:Associate – generate 100 PV and 1000 GV a monthBuilder – maintain 100 PV a month and generate 15,000 GV a monthSilver Pro – generate 200 PV and 40,000 GV a monthGold Pro – maintain 200 PV and generate 75,000 GV a monthPlatinum Pro – generate 1500 PV and 150,000 GV a monthDiamond – generate 4500 PV and 400,000 GV a monthBlue Diamond – maintain 4500 PV and generate 1,000,000 GV a monthBlack Diamond – generate 10,000 PV and 2,500,000 GV a monthCrown Diamond – generate 25,000 PV and 6,000,000 GV a monthRoyal Crown Diamond – generate 50,000 PV and 12,000,000 GV a month

PV stands for “Personal Volume”. PV is generated via fees paid by Homnifi affiliates.

GV stands for “Group Volume”. GV is the sum total PV generated by a Homnifi affiliate and their downline.

Note that for rank qualification, no more than 40% of required GV can come from any one recruitment leg.

Referral Commissions

Homnifi pays affiliates a 10% referral commission on fees paid by personally recruited affiliates.

Residual Commissions

Homnifi pays residual commissions via a binary compensation structure.

A binary compensation structure places an affiliate at the top of a binary team, split into two sides (left and right):

The first level of the binary team houses two positions. The second level of the binary team is generated by splitting these first two positions into another two positions each (4 positions).

Subsequent levels of the binary team are generated as required, with each new level housing twice as many positions as the previous level.

Positions in the binary team are filled via direct and indirect recruitment of affiliates. Note there is no limit to how deep a binary team can grow.

At the end of each week Homnifi tallies up new fee volume on both sides of the binary team.

Affiliates are paid 10% of new fee volume generated on their weaker binary team.

Note that Homnifi caps residual commissions based on rank:

Associates can earn up to $1000 in residual commissions a week

Builders can earn up to $5000 in residual commissions a week

Silver Pros can earn up to $8000 in residual commissions a week

Gold Pros can earn up to $10,000 in residual commissions a week

Platinum Pros can earn up to $15,000 in residual commissions a week

Diamonds can earn up to $25,000 in residual commissions a week

Blue Diamonds can earn up to $50,000 in residual commissions a week

Black Diamonds can earn up to $75,000 in residual commissions a week

Crown Diamonds can earn up to $100,000 in residual commissions a week

Royal Crown Diamonds can earn up to $125,000 in residual commissions a week

Matching Bonus

Homnifi pays a Matching Bonus via a unilevel compensation structure.

A unilevel compensation structure places an affiliate at the top of a unilevel team, with every personally recruited affiliate placed directly under them (level 1):

If any level 1 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 2 of the original affiliate’s unilevel team.

If any level 2 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 3 and so on and so forth down a theoretical infinite number of levels.

Homnifi caps payable unilevel team levels at four.

The Matching Bonus is paid as a percentage of residual commissions earned across these four levels based on rank:

Builders earn a 10% match on level 1 (personally recruited affiliates)

Gold Pros earn a 10% match on levels 1 and 2

Platinum Pros earn a 10% match on levels 1 to 3

Diamonds and higher earn a 10% match on levels 1 to 4

Global Bonus Pool

Homnifi takes 3% of company-wide fee revenue and places it into a Global Pool.

The 3% Global Pool is split into five smaller rank-based pools:

Gold Pros receive a share in a 32% Global Pool

Platinum Pros receive a share in a 29% Global Pool

Diamonds receive a share in a 14% Global Pool

Blue Diamonds receive a share in a 10% Global Pool

Black Diamonds receive a share in a 15% Global Pool

Rank Achievement Bonuses

Homnifi rewards affiliates for qualifying at Builder and higher with the following one-time Rank Achievement Bonuses:

qualify at Builder and receive an “up to $300” gift card

qualify at Silver Pro and receive an “up to $800” gift card

qualify at Gold Pro and receive a cell phone worth “up to $1125”

qualify at Platinum Pro and receive a laptop worth “up to $2250”

qualify at Diamond and receive a watch worth “up to $6000”

qualify at Blue Diamond and receive a watch worth up to “$15,000”

qualify at Black Diamond and receive a car worth “up to $37,150”

qualify at Crown Diamond and receive a car worth “up to $180,000”

qualify at Royal Crown Diamond and receive a house worth “up to $360,000”

Joining Homnifi

Homnifi affiliate membership is $99 annually.

Full participation in the attached income opportunity requires a minimum $100 fee to access passive returns.

Homnifi Conclusion

Homnifi is a continuation of the securities fraud started with Xera Pro and its collapsed feeder Ponzis.

All the previous Ponzi tokens have been abandoned, including Xera Pro’s EURX and CLFI. Homnifi’s new Ponzi token is LYK, which LayerK generates out of thin air.

With the Homnifi reboot having just launched LYK doesn’t mean much now. As Homnifi inevitably collapses though, its investors will no doubt be left bagholding worthless LYK.

It’s unclear whether the Australian securities fraud warning or running out of new investment saw Xera Pro collapse. It could also be both.

What is clear is neither Homnifi or any of the new attached company are registered to offer securities in any jurisdiction. This makes Homnifi and its associated companies ripe for more regulatory fraud warnings.

Or at least it would if Homnifi wasn’t a flop from launch. Evidently across the umpteen reboots of Xera Pro and its feeder Ponzis, the pool of gullible saps to steal from has shrunk considerably.

For July 2024 SimilarWeb tracked just 457 monthly visits to Homnifi’s website. Xera Pro was ~44,000 monthly visits, slipping 16% month on month.

Top sources of traffic to Xera Pro’s website as of July 2024 are Germany (61%), Australia (10%) and Italy (8%).

As with all MLM Ponzi schemes, once affiliate recruitment dries up so too will new investment.

It’s unclear whether the Australian securities fraud warning or running out of new investment saw Xera Pro collapse. It could also be both.

What is clear is neither Homnifi or any of the new attached company are registered to offer securities in any jurisdiction. This makes Homnifi and its associated companies ripe for more regulatory fraud warnings.

Or at least it would if Homnifi wasn’t a flop from launch. Evidently across the umpteen reboots of Xera Pro and its feeder Ponzis, the pool of gullible saps to steal from has shrunk considerably.

For July 2024 SimilarWeb tracked just 457 monthly visits to Homnifi’s website. Xera Pro was ~44,000 monthly visits, slipping 16% month on month.

Top sources of traffic to Xera Pro’s website as of July 2024 are Germany (61%), Australia (10%) and Italy (8%).

As with all MLM Ponzi schemes, once affiliate recruitment dries up so too will new investment.

This will starve Homnifi of ROI revenue, eventually prompting a collapse.

The math behind Ponzi schemes guarantees that when they collapse, the majority of participants lose money.

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US Operator of Binary Option Brands Fined $516K for $10M Scam

A federal court in Ohio has ordered Jared Davis, the mastermind of a $10 million binary options scam, to pay $561,971 in restitution to defrauded victims. Davis operated the fraudulent binary options brands, Option Mint, Option King and Option Queen, between 2012 and 2016 under Erie Marketing, LLC.

Davis Faces Multiple Fines

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced the court order on Friday, noting that the former Ohio resident was hit with permanent registration and trading bans. The judgment comes after action taken against Davis in September 2019 was filed by the US derivatives markets watchdog.

Separately, Davis pleaded guilty to three counts of personal tax evasion and 11 counts of wire fraud on behalf of his firm, Erie Marketing, all of the charges were initiated by the US prosecutors in the Northern District of Ohio.

In the statement by the CFTC, the regulator noted that Davis earlier in January was sentenced to 30 months' imprisonment and a subsequent three years of supervised release. Alongside his company, the binary options operator was hit with other multiple monetary penalties with expected payments now totaling about $7 million.

“He was also ordered to pay a $300,000 fine, $1,039,208 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and to be jointly and severally liable for the debts of Erie Marketing, LLC, including $656,493.20 in restitution to victims and a $4.4 million fine,” the CFTC explained, giving a breakdown of the other penalties.

On the other hand, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s case against Davis remains pending, the CFTC said. The securities regulator in February 2019 had entered a partial settlement with Davis based on conditions that the court “will determine disgorgement and civil penalties at a later date.”

How Davis Ran the $10M Scam: CFTC

According to the CFTC, Davis perpetrated the scam by deploying internet and website marketing campaigns as well as call centre operators. His activities targeted investors in the US and other countries, touting trading opportunities in off-exchange binary options on commodities, forex, stocks and indices.

However, the binary options executive had other plans as he made ‘misrepresentations’ and hid ‘material facts’ about the trading business from investors. For instance, he failed to disclose that he “effectively took the opposing positions on each trade,” the CFTC said, adding that Davis behind the scenes frequently manipulated the settings of his options trading software in order “to increase the odds of customers losses."

Meanwhile, David Butler, the operator of binary options firms, SpotFN and Binary FN, recently pleaded guilty to defrauding investors of $2.9 million through binary options schemes. Furthermore, California-based John Black and his affiliated firms were recently slapped with over $29 million in restitution and penalties.

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Forte Capital flips Wynwood property for 75% gain in 3 months

Chaim Cahane’s Forte Capital Management flipped a property in Wynwood to a Miami Beach couple for 75 percent more than he paid in December, as demand for development sites continues to soar in South Florida, The Real Deal has learned.

Alex Kleyner acquired the corner property at 2830 Northwest Fifth Avenue for $11.2 million in an off-market, all cash deal, sources told TRD. State records show Kleyner and Diana Ulis control an LLC named after the address. They are also building a modern mega mansion in Miami Beach’s Sunset Islands.

Kleyner shares the same name as Alex Kleyner who leads ABK Capital, an investment management firm based in Miami Beach; as well as with Alex Kleyner, the founder of Store2Door, which exports products to international markets. There is also an Alex Kleyner who is co-founder and CEO of New York-based National Debt Relief.

Miami-based Lndmrk Development, headed by Alex Karakhanian, sold the 14,000-square-foot building on the site to Cahane for $6.4 million in late December, and kept a minority interest in the property.

Jordan Karp of Jordan Karp LLC brokered the latest deal. Karp, Cahane and Karakhanian declined to comment on the buyer or the plans for the property.

The two-story vacant building was built in 1950 and expanded in 1957, and sits on a 17,160-square-foot lot, records show. It’s within walking distance of 545wyn, a new office building developed by Sterling Bay Properties.

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Cahane said he wasn’t planning to flip the site, adding that the deal shows how Wynwood is “probably the hottest market in the country right now.” He planned to convert the retail building into creative offices.

“We got a call from a broker three weeks after closing asking if we were interested in selling. We threw out a number and he said yes,” Cahane said. “The number was too attractive to say no.”

Kleyner and Ulis bought two adjacent homes at 1771 and 1773 North View Drive on Sunset Island I in Miami Beach for $44.5 million in 2020. They purchased the property through a land trust, and their identities were revealed when the couple proposed a two-story mansion designed by architect Kobi Karp.

Development is booming in Wynwood. Lndmrk is partnering with TriStar Capital, Tricera Capital and Related Group to build a residential project with more than 300 units at 2700 Northwest Second Avenue. The partnership paid $26.5 million for the redevelopment site in September.

Roughly two blocks away, Lndmrk, Tricera and Related teamed up to develop Dorsey Wynwood, a mixed-use project that will have apartments, commercial space, office space and amenities.

Forte’s other real estate in Wynwood includes the retail property at 310-318 Northwest 25th Street, which he and 7G Realty acquired from East End Capital last year for $11.8 million