Facts aren't unfounded, nor propaganda. Or are you saying an individual shouldn't be responsible for their actions?

He sold a $40m for $100m to a Russian oligarch, who promptly demolished it. The overpaying is the point.

Real estate is one of the primary means of laundering money out of a country that otherwise restricts it. See: FINCEN [0]

[0] https://www.fincen.gov/suspected-money-laundering-and-fraud-...