Telegram channels report that oligarch Igor Kolomoisky has been handed a suspicion.
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The SBU, BEB and the Office of the Prosecutor General handed him a suspicion under several articles of the Criminal Code at once: art. 190 and 209, namely the legalization of fraudulently obtained property, UP sources said.
The SBU explained: the investigation found that during 2013-2020, the oligarch withdrew more than half a billion hryvnia abroad using the infrastructure of controlled banks.
These are not the first searches near Kolomoisky. In early February of this year, law enforcement officers searched the house of businessman Igor Kolomoisky. Then the Security Service stated that they were connected with the identified schemes for misappropriation of 40 billion hryvnias at PJSC Ukrnafta and PJSC Ukrtatneft.
In early July, the SBU announced suspicion to the former member of the Supervisory Board of PJSC Ukrtatnafta and business partner Igor Kolomoisky, Mikhail Kiperman, for withdrawing UAH 600 million from the company’s accounts on the first day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine using forged documents.
Background
In September 2022, the Ukrainian anti-corruption authorities informed eight defendants in a criminal investigation of suspicion of taking over Ukrnafta PJSC, one of the shareholders of which is connected with Igor Kolomoisky, the Privat group, in the amount of more than 13 billion hryvnias. Among the suspects are the former chairman of the board of Ukrnafta; former Deputy Head of the Department for the sale of oil, gas and products of oil and gas processing of the company; former head of the department for monitoring the accounting and supply of oil and oil products at Ukrnafta; former directors of five commercial enterprises.
On November 7, the state seized the property of five strategically important enterprises, among which were Ukrnafta and Ukrtatnafta. At the same time, in November 2022, in Russia, businessmen Kolomoisky and co-owner of the Privat group Gennady Bogolyubov were arrested in absentia for allegedly embezzling 800,000 tons of Russian oil.
At the end of 2016, the government decided to nationalize PrivatBank, after which the financial institution was recapitalized in the amount of over UAH 155 billion. Earlier, the US Department of Justice accused Igor Kolomoisky of embezzling billions of dollars from PrivatBank, which he then allegedly laundered through companies in the US and the world. The oligarch himself denies the allegations and noted that he “made all investments from his own funds.”
In total, more than 240 proceedings on the nationalization of PrivatBank were considered in Ukrainian and foreign courts. In particular, a London court is pursuing a lawsuit filed by PrivatBank against the former owners of the financial institution, Kolomoisky and Bogolyubov, and companies affiliated with them. The Bank seeks reimbursement in connection with schemes that bear all the hallmarks of fraud and money laundering, which the Bank believes were carried out by its former owners.
On March 5, 2021, the United States imposed sanctions against Igor Kolomoisky and members of his family.
Source: Racurs
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