Jurist: Ihor Kolomoyskyi as a Case Study in Ukraine’s War on Corruption
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Ihor Kolomoyskyi
Ihor Valeriyovych Kolomoyskyi is a Ukrainian-born Israeli billionaire businessman, once considered the leading oligarch in Ukraine.
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business · Ukrainian-born businessman (born 1963) · businessperson · banker · politician · entrepreneur · governor · also Ihor Kolomoyskyi, Ihor Valeriyovych Kolomoyskyi, Kolomoyskyi
Born 13 February 1963 · Q1626421
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2024· 3 entries
The Cassational Court also rejected final appeals of the case
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After a review found that he had withheld information about his criminal charges in his application
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2023· 1 entry
Kolomoyskyi was arrested by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) on charges of money laundering and fraud, and placed under pre-trial arrest
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2021· 1 entry
Reported net worth: $1.8B (as of 2021).
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2020· 2 entries
Was indicted in the United States on charges related to large-scale bank fraud
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Zelenskyy sponsored a law that banned former owners from recovering nationalized assets
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2019· 5 entries
The Ukrainian magazine Focus placed Kolomoyskyi third on a list of the 100 most influential Ukrainians
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Detailed how Kolomoyskyi used his control of Ukraine's largest retail bank, PrivatBank, to loot staggering sums from Ukrainian depositors, and via a series of shell companies and offshore accounts whisked the money out o
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After being relegated FC Dnipro was dissolved
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The judgment was overturned on appeal, with the UK Supreme Court finding that the $3 billion claim against the former owners of the bank can be heard in a London court
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Kolomoyskyi's media power and funding supported Volodymyr Zelenskyy's successful presidential campaign to unseat Poroshenko
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2018· 2 entries
The now nationalized PrivatBank brought a lawsuit against Kolomoyskyi and Bogolyubov in the High Court in London and secured a worldwide freeze on their assets
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Career landmark: Participated in Visiting Dmitry Gordon (tournament / event).
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2016· 3 entries
Kolomoyskyi and his business partner Gennadiy Bogolyubov were accused of defrauding Ukraine's largest bank PrivatBank of billions of dollars through large unsecured loans to shareholders
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His undercapitalised bank was declared a threat to Ukraine's financial security and taken into state ownership
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To prevent a collapse of the Ukrainian equivalent to the United States' FDIC, while using PrivatBank's "Cyprus branch
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2015· 2 entries
Won Medal "For sacrifice and love of Ukraine" (2015).
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Victor Pinchuk brought a $2 billion civil action against Kolomoyskyi and Gennadiy Bogolyubov in the High Court of Justice in London over the 2004 purchase of a Ukrainian mining company
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2014· 1 entry
With Kolomoyskyi support in response to the war in Donbas
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2012· 1 entry
With Gennady Bogolubov and Victor Pinchuk, he financed construction of what purports to be the largest multifunctional Jewish Community Center in Europe, the Menorah Centre, in downtown Dnipro
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2010· 4 entries
Kolomoyskyi was rated as the second richest person in Ukraine, and as one of the country's most influential oligarchs
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Kyiv Post listed Kolomoyskyi as the second richest person in Ukraine; in 2012 Forbes rated him the third richest person in Ukraine (after Rinat Akhmetov and/or Viktor Pinchuk)
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In Berlin, after promising the outgoing president he would donate $14 million, Kolomoyskyi was appointed as the president of the European Council of Jewish Communities (ECJC)
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Rumors circulated that Kolomoyskyi's assets were coming under pressure from the Ukrainian authorities and that he was spending increasingly more time in Switzerland
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2008· 1 entry
Was elected the President of "the United Jewish community of Ukraine" in Kyiv
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class (2006).
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1995· 1 entry
Participated aggressively in the voucher scheme for the privatization of state assets
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1994· 1 entry
Kolomoyskyi and his partners later funded), PrivatBank was also the only Ukrainian lender to receive permission from the National Bank of Ukraine to open overseas branches
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1992· 2 entries
Was later implicated in the 2014 Moldovan bank fraud scandal
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Had co-founded PrivatBank and its informal stable of companies, Privat Group
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1991· 1 entry
Together with Leonid Miloslavsky, Oleksiy Martynov, and Hennadiy Boholyubov, he founded Sentosa Ltd, which transported and resold goods and equipment from Moscow to Dnipropetrovsk
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1990· 1 entry
With two other graduates from Dnipropetrovsk universities, Gennadiy Bogolyubov and Oleksiy Martynov, Kolomoyskyi created a joint enterprise marketing office equipment bought in Moscow
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1986· 1 entry
Kolomoyskyi found work in the Fianit trading cooperative
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1980· 1 entry
Took up graduate studies in engineering at the Leonid Brezhnev Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute (now the National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine), graduating in 1985
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1963· 1 entry
Born 1963-02-13.
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