Ukraine accuses business tycoon Kolomoyskyy of fraud, money laundering

Ukraine accuses business tycoon Kolomoyskyy of fraud, money laundering

Published September 02,2023


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Ukraine‘s safety company on Saturday named highly effective businessman Ihor Kolomoyskyy suspect in a felony investigation, accusing him of fraud and cash laundering.

In a press release, the Security Service of Ukraine stated it formally offered the Ukrainian tycoon with related paperwork with officers from the Office of the Prosecutor General and the Bureau of Economic Security too.

According to the probe, in 2013-2020, Kolomoyskyy laundered greater than $13 million utilizing banking establishments underneath his management.

In the 2022 autumn, Ukraine’s anti-corruption bureau took a press release from Kolomoyskyy and searched his property within the case of the seizure of the property of the Ukrnafta firm, Ukraine’s largest oil and gasoline producer.

The Ukrainian media additionally reported that the businessman had been stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship, however no official affirmation was acquired for it. He additionally has Israeli and Greek Cyprus administration citizenships.

Kolomoyskyy had as soon as been thought-about the main oligarch in Ukraine. He additionally served because the Dnipropetrovsk governor however was dismissed by then Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

In 2019, Kolomoyskyy’s media energy and funding supported Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s profitable presidential marketing campaign to unseat Poroshenko.

In 2021, Ukrainian Forbes estimated the businessman’s fortune at $1.8 billion, as he ranked fourth within the listing of the richest folks in Ukraine. But in December 2022, the publication lowered this estimate to $850 million. The motive was the choice taken in early November to forcibly withdraw the Ukrnafta firm, which was underneath the precise management of a businessman, into state possession.

Source: www.anews.com.tr