Pavlo lazarenko mansion global

Authorities in the U.S. have confiscated the $6.75 million California mansion of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko in connection with his money laundering conviction nearly a decade ago and have also sanctioned the seizure of a Pablo Picasso lithograph that he is believed to own.

The sprawling 20-room home in the city of Novato, 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of San Francisco, was formally handed over to the United States last month in an Oct.

8 order issued by Judge Charles Breyer of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

The mansion, where comedian Eddie Murphy reportedly once resided while filming a movie nearby, was seized as part of the U.S.

government's efforts to recover $22.8 million from Lazarenko based on his 2004 conviction by a federal jury in