Investigation underway at Sergio Pino’s Coral Gables home – NBC 6 South Florida

On Tuesday, an FBI investigation was underway at the Coral Gables home of well-known Miami-Dade homebuilder Sergio Pino.

Criminal allegations are circulating in the divorce proceedings between Pino and his wife, Tatiana, who were married for 32 years. Those allegations – including poisoning, arson and stalking – are part of an ongoing federal investigation that has already led to the arrest of four people, including a man Tatiana Pino identified as one of the couple’s co-workers on their yacht.

No charges have been filed against Sergio Pino, but the FBI confirmed that it searched the couple’s $8 million Coral Gables home and business premises in June as part of an ongoing investigation.

Raymond J. Rafool, Tatiana Pino’s attorney, said officials arrested her husband on Tuesday.

“The arrest of Sergio Pino was expected and deserved,” he said.

Pino’s lawyer Sam Rabin said he was at the scene trying to find out what happened.

The public was asked to avoid the study area in the Cocoplum district.

Pino runs a Miami-Dade construction empire largely under the auspices of the Century Homebuilders Group, which is the largest Hispanic-owned developer in the country, according to its website. He was president of the politically influential Latin Builders Association.

Over the decades they spent together, Tatiana often appeared at his side on official occasions, but the public image of a happy, wealthy couple began to fade when she filed for divorce in April 2022.

If you see the word “century” in a construction project in Miami-Dade, it probably started with the Pino family and owes great wealth to Sergio Pino and his company.

One financial statement cited during his testimony in the November 2023 divorce proceedings put his and Tatiana’s joint net worth in 2021 at $359 million; another presented in the same testimony put it at $153 million. Pino testified that he created the larger net worth statement as a “joke” that included “made-up” numbers and said the smaller net worth statement was accurate.

Whatever the amount, the question of how much of it Tatiana is rightfully entitled to is the subject of a two-year divorce battle. That battle is now the subject of a federal criminal case in which four men are charged with a “stalking conspiracy.”

You can find further information about the divorce process here.

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