Exclusive | Moscow Airport billionaire seeks $45M for NYC penthouse amid a massive global selling spree

It’s a “nyet” profit.Real estate mogul Valery Kogan has listed his Plaza Hotel penthouse for $45 million, The Post has learned — continuing his sale of opulent homes around the world after falling out with Vladimir Putin.Kogan co-owned one of Russia’s biggest passenger hubs, Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport, but lost his stake three months ago when the state’s highest court dismissed his final appeal to avert the takeover. Putin and Kogan were comrades, but their relationship curdled as the state moved aggressively to seize the airport, which is Russia’s third biggest.It also may not help that Kogan was born in Ukraine.The airport seizure, which was in the works for some time and sped up last year, coincides with the Kremlin’s ongoing land grabs of privately overseen properties amid the extremely expensive Ukraine War.The takeover also coincides with Kogan and his wife Olga rapidly trying to rid themselves of hundreds of millions of dollars of properties in their portfolio.The Plaza penthouse, the couple’s latest listing, sits over two units — Nos.

2003 and 2009 — amid the hotel’s storied green copper turrets, and spans 10,290 square feet in total.The 20th-floor residences are linked to each other by an 80-foot terrace. The buyer can take the two residences as a single package for $45 million.

That all-encompassing arrangement provides an amenity-laden expanse that includes seven bedrooms, eight full bathrooms and two half bathrooms flanked by a Fifth Avenue-facing media room and an office.Carrying costs are close to $40,000 a month for common charges and property taxes.The property can also be split, with the larger residence at 2009 serving as a triplex spanning 6,316 square feet and listed at $29 million.

This unit includes sweeping views of Central Park, 21-foot-tall ceilings, a skylight and a media room overlooking Fifth and Park avenues. A grand staircase leads to the apartment’s upper floor, which is entirely devoted to a primary...

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