The SBU entered the house of the Ukrainian oligarch. Did he launder half a billion hryvnias?

Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky received a report of suspicion of committing a crime. His house was searched.

Ihor Kolomoisky is one of the richest people in Ukraine and a former governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region. He has been under US sanctions since March 2021: he and his family are not allowed to enter the United States.

The Ukrainian Pravda portal reported on Saturday that the agents of the Security Service of Ukraine had provided the businessman with a document containing information about the suspect’s status under two articles of the Penal Code (190 and 209). It’s about fraud and the legalization of the proceeds of crime.

The report was made during a search of the oligarch’s home. According to Ukrainian Pravda, prosecutors will request that Kolomoyski be taken into custody, with the possibility of bail.

Kolomoisky transferred half a billion hryvnias abroad?

In 2013-2020, Kolomoisky laundered more than half a billion hryvnias (about $13.5 million) using banking institutions he controlled, and exported them abroad, according to investigators.

In February 2023, the Security Service of Ukraine and the Economic Security Bureau conducted a search of the oligarch’s house in the city of Dnipro. The media at the time reported that the investigation was related to fraud involving Ukrnafta and Ukrtatnafta, Ukrainian oil extraction and refining companies.

Kolomoiski promoted Volodymyr Zelensky first as a comedian and then as a politician. The oligarch funded Zelensky’s 2019 election campaign.

In July 2022, Zelensky stripped Kolomoyskij of Ukrainian citizenship. The reasons for this move are unclear, although Zelensky referred to an ongoing US investigation. In November 2022, part of Kolomoyskyi’s properties, which were of “strategic importance” to the state in the face of the Russian invasion, were nationalized.

Source: Do Rzeczy

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