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'{{short description|Israeli–Cypriot and former Ukrainian businessman and politician}} {{family name hatnote|Valeriyovych|Kolomoyskyi|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = Ihor Kolomoyskyi | native_name = {{nobold|Ігор Коломойський}} | native_name_lang = uk | image = Ihor Kolomoyskyi2.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Kolomoyskyi in 2013 | party = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1963|2|13}} | birth_place = [[Dnipro|Dnipropetrovsk]], [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Ukrainian SSR]], [[Soviet Union]]<br />(now Dnipro, [[Ukraine]])<ref name=Rencs>{{cite web|url=http://research.rencap.com/eng/government_ua/government_detail94.asp|title=Igor Kolomoysky|publisher=[[Renaissance Capital (Russian company)|Renaissance Capital]]|website=rencap.com|access-date=8 February 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20110720063247/http://research.rencap.com/eng/government_ua/government_detail94.asp|archive-date=20 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> | nationality = [[Israel]]<br/>[[Cyprus]] | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = Igor Kolomoisky | occupation = Businessman, politician | known_for = Co-owner of [[PrivatBank]]<br />Owner of [[FC Dnipro]]<ref name="ForbesProfile">{{cite web |title=Forbes profile: Ihor Kolomoyskyy |url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/ihor-kolomoyskyy/ |website=Forbes |access-date=14 May 2019}}</ref> | alma_mater = [[National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine|Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Academy]]<ref name=LIGA>{{in lang|ru}} [http://file.liga.net/person/589-igor-kolomoiskii.html Short bio], LIGA</ref> | spouse = Irina Kolomoyskaya | children = 2 | module = {{Infobox officeholder | embed = yes | office = [[Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast]] | term_start = 2 March 2014<ref name=LIGA/> | term_end = 24 March 2015 | primeminister = | predecessor = Dmytro Kolesnikov<ref>[http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/133295.html#.UPmNTURRaJk Ukrainian president reshuffles Azarov's government], [[Interfax-Ukraine]] (24 December 2012)</ref><ref>{{in lang|uk}} [http://da-ta.com.ua/effort_authority/1684.htm Колєсніков Дмитро Валерійович], DA-TA</ref> | successor = [[Valentyn Reznichenko]]&nbsp;(acting)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32045990 |title=Ukraine governor Kolomoisky sacked after oil firm row |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=25 March 2015}}</ref>}} }} '''Ihor Valeriyovych Kolomoyskyi''' ({{lang-uk|Ігор Валерійович Коломойський|translit=Ihor Valeriiovych Kolomoiskyi}}; {{lang-he|איגור קולומויסקי}}; born 13 February 1963) is a Ukrainian-born Israeli–Cypriot billionaire businessman, once considered the leading [[Business oligarch|oligarch]] in Ukraine. Already an entrepreneur in the last years of [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Soviet Ukraine]], in 2010 Kolomoyskyi was rated as the second richest person in Ukraine, and as one of the country's most influential he is also a piece of shit[[Ukrainian oligarch|oligarchs]]. In 1992, he had co-founded [[PrivatBank]] and its informal stable of companies, [[Privat Group]]. He subsequently acquired extensive media holdings. Between 2014 and 2016, Kolomoyskyi served as Governor of [[Dnipropetrovsk Oblast]] until his dismissal by President [[Petro Poroshenko]]. That year, his undercapitalised bank was declared a threat to Ukraine’s financial security and taken into state ownership. In 2019, Kolomoyskyi's media power and funding supported [[Volodymyr Zelenskyy]]'s successful [[2019 Ukrainian presidential election|presidential campaign]] to unseat Poroshenko. In 2020, he was indicted in the United States on charges related to large-scale bank fraud. In 2021, the U.S. banned Kolomoyskyi and his family from entering the country, accusing him of corruption and being a threat to the Ukrainian public's faith in democratic institutions. Zelenskyy reportedly stripped Kolomoyskyi of his Ukrainian citizenship in 2022. Later that same year, those of Kolomoyskyi's assets deemed to be of strategic value to the state in light of the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine|Russian invasion]] were nationalised. These included Ukraine's largest gasoline companies. In 2023, Kolomoyskyi was arrested by the [[Security Service of Ukraine]] (SBU) on charges of money laundering and fraud, and placed under pre-trial arrest. == Name == The transliteration of Ihor Kolomoyskyi's name into English has numerous variants including Igor, or Ihor for his first name, and Kolomoyskyi, Kolomoysky, Kolomoisky, Kolomoiskiy, or Kolomoyskiy for his surname.{{cn|date=November 2022}} Kolomoyskyi uses the nickname ''Benya'' ({{lang-ru|Беня}}),<ref>[http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/282370.html Anti-Privat Group rally under way near Naftogaz of Ukraine HQ in Kyiv], [[Interfax-Ukraine]] (6 August 2015)</ref> an invocation of the infamous Ukrainian (and Jewish) criminal reprobate [[Benya Krik]], popularly fictionalized in [[Isaac Babel]]'s ''[[Odessa Stories]]''. Occasionally, Kolomoyskyi is called ''Bonifatsiy'' (the eponymous star of the popular Soviet cartoon "[[:ru:Каникулы Бонифация|Каникулы Бонифация]]" (''Bonifacy's holidays'' by [[Soyuzmultfilm]]).{{cn|date=November 2022}} == Early life and education == Kolomoyskyi was born into a Jewish family in [[Dnipro|Dnipropetrovsk]], [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Ukrainian SSR]], [[Soviet Union]]. Both parents had graduated in engineering. His mother worked at the university and father in a metallurgical plant. Already in his childhood he was considered to be very determined, diligent and serious, was enthusiastic about sports, and liked to play chess. Professionally, he followed the example of his parents. After graduating from the Gymnasium 21 in Dnipro with the [[Komsomol]] badge "For outstanding school performance", in 1980 he took up graduate studies in engineering at the Leonid Brezhnev Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute (now the [[National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine]]), graduating in 1985.<ref name="decoratex.biz">{{cite web |title=Kolomoisky Igor Valerievich: biography, personal life, career |url=https://decoratex.biz/bsn/en/new-kolomojskij-igor-valerevich-biografiya-lichnaya-zhizn-karera.html |access-date=5 May 2022 |website=decoratex.biz/bsn |date=31 May 2016}}</ref> As a Komsomol activist, Kolomoyskyi was involved in the so-called "disco movement"—an attempt by the authorities to promote an ideological safe alternative to the growing, underground, rebroadcast and performance of "Anglo-American" rock music including, in the 80s, heavy metal and punk.<ref name="decoratex.biz" /><ref>{{cite book |last1=Klumbytė |first1=Neringa |last2=Sharafutdinova |first2=Gulnaz |title=Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964-1985 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HxZyQlANcDEC |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |date=2013 |pages=70 |isbn=978-0-7391-7583-5}}</ref> Kolomoyskyi used his role in organising approved dance venues and concerts to begin his trading career, as did others in his position, several of whom would go on to play prominent roles in post-Soviet national politics, among them [[Yulia Tymoshenko]], [[Victor Pinchuk]], [[Serhiy Tihipko]], and [[Oleksandr Turchynov]].<ref name="Bloom97815013453642">[https://books.google.com/books?id=avjCDwAAQBAJ&dq=dnipropetrovsk+nationalism&pg=PA318 The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class], ed. Ian Peddie, New York / London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, {{ISBN|9781501345364}}, page 318 + 319</ref> == Business career == In 1986, Kolomoyskyi found work in the Fianit trading cooperative.<ref name=":72">{{Cite web |title=Ihor Kolomoisky - profiles, relations, career, biography, family |url=https://en.thepage.ua/dossier/kolomoisky-ihor |access-date=2022-05-05 |website=The Page |language=en}}</ref> In 1990, with two other graduates from Dnipropetrovsk universities, [[Gennadiy Bogolyubov]] and Oleksiy Martynov, Kolomoyskyi created a joint enterprise marketing office equipment bought in [[Moskva River|Moscow]]. After the [[Dissolution of the Soviet Union|collapse of the USSR]], the partners, joined by the son of a major Soviet entrepreneur, Leonid Miloslavsky, began to import foreign goods – from sneakers and sportswear to telephones.<ref name="forbes">{{cite news |author=Елена Шкарпова |date=3 September 2012 |title=Неизвестные факты из жизни Игоря Коломойского |work=Forbes |url=http://forbes.ua/magazine/forbes/1336450-neizvestnye-fakty-iz-zhizni-igorya-kolomojskogo |access-date=4 January 2013}}</ref> To pay for the imports, Kolomoyskyi arranged the export of steel products. Soon they realized the greater profits to be made in internationally trading the locally sourced ores and metal. Among other operations, their Privat group supplied fuel to the mining company Pokrovsky (Ordzhonikidzevsky) GOK, receiving in return [[manganese]] ore for export.<ref name="forbes" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Ihor Kolomoisky – profiles, relations, career, biography, family |url=https://en.thepage.ua/dossier/kolomoisky-ihor |access-date=26 July 2022 |website=The Page |date=30 June 2020}}</ref> In 1991, together with Leonid Miloslavsky, Oleksiy Martynov, and [[Henadiy Boholyubov|Hennadiy Boholyubov]], he founded Sentosa Ltd, which transported and resold goods and equipment from Moscow to Dnipropetrovsk. Later, petroleum products were imported, they expanded into [[ferroalloy]], supplied Ordzhonikidze GOK (later Pokrov Mining and Processing Plant GOK) with fuel, and received manganese ore for further export under barter agreements.<ref name=":72" /> In March 1992, the four companies of the Privat Group established [[Privatbank]] CJSC.<ref name="ubr">{{cite web |title=Приват — финансово-промышленная группа компаний |url=http://bp.ubr.ua/profile/privat |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117153029/http://bp.ubr.ua/profile/privat |archive-date=17 January 2013 |work=UBR |access-date=4 January 2013}}</ref> Unlike state-owned banks, Privat willingly served private entrepreneurs and in 1995 participated aggressively in the [[Voucher privatization|voucher scheme for the privatization]] of state assets.<ref name="forbes" /> With the blessing of Prime Minister [[Leonid Kuchma]] (also from Dnipro, and whose successful presidential campaign in 1994 Kolomoyskyi and his partners later funded),<ref>{{cite book |last=Magyar |first=Bálint |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J_uZDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA234 |title=Stubborn Structures: Reconceptualizing Post-Communist Regimes |date=2019 |publisher=Central European University Press |isbn=978-963-386-215-5 |pages=234–235 |language=en}}</ref> PrivatBank was also the only Ukrainian lender to receive permission from the [[National Bank of Ukraine]] to open overseas branches. One branch in [[Latvia]], established in 1992, was later implicated in the [[2014 Moldovan bank fraud scandal]]. The operations of a second, opened in the late 1990s in [[Cyprus]], helped precipitate the [[Nationalization of PrivatBank|nationalization of PrivatBank in 2016]].<ref name="RFEschemesPrivatBank2">{{cite news |date=May 11, 2017 |title=Перед націоналізацією з "ПриватБанку" вивели десятки мільярдів гривень на фірми-бульбашки: СХЕМИ |language=uk |trans-title=Before nationalization, tens of billions of hryvnias were transferred from PrivatBank to bubble firms: SCHEMES |work=[[Radio Free Europe]] |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcrVbhLDSkI |access-date=March 23, 2022}}</ref><ref name="OCCRP190420172">{{cite news |last=Stack |first=Graham |date=19 April 2017 |title=Oligarchs Weaponized Cyprus Branch of Ukraine's Largest Bank to Send $5.5 Billion Abroad |work=[[OCCRP]] |url=https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/oligarchs-weaponized-cyprus-eranch-of-ukraines-largest-bank-to-send-5-billion-abroad |access-date=23 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324000453/https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/oligarchs-weaponized-cyprus-eranch-of-ukraines-largest-bank-to-send-5-billion-abroad |archive-date=24 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Kroll Staff |date=2 April 2015 |title=Project Tenor - Scoping Phase |url=http://candu.md/files/doc/Kroll_Project%20Tenor_Candu_02.04.15.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180516181611/http://candu.md/files/doc/Kroll_Project%20Tenor_Candu_02.04.15.pdf |archive-date=16 May 2018 |access-date=23 March 2022 |work=[[Kroll Inc.]] |pages=74, 75}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Kroll_Project |url=http://candu.md/files/doc/Kroll_Project |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161026170508/http://candu.md/files/doc/Kroll_Project |archive-date=26 October 2016 |access-date=3 February 2016 |publisher=[[Andrian Candu]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=2016 |title=Annual Report and Consolidated Annual Report for year 2016: MANAGEMENT REPORT |url=https://gallery.privatbank.lv/PDF/Latvia/PB_2016_EN.PDF |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210129210501/https://gallery.privatbank.lv/PDF/Latvia/PB_2016_EN.PDF |archive-date=29 January 2021 |access-date=23 March 2022 |work=AS “PrivatBank” |location=Riga, Latvia |page=3}}</ref> Between 1999 and 2003, Kolomoyskyi gained control of [[Ukrnafta]], Kalinin Coke and Chemical Plant, Ozerka market in Dnipropetrovsk, [[Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant]], and other companies.<ref name="decoratex.biz" /> Through Privat Group, whose board he chaired from 1997,<ref name="Gaurd2">[https://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/aug/28/europeanfootball.dniprodnipropetrovsk Three's a crowd for Dynamo and Shakhtar], ''[[The Guardian]]'' (28 August 2007)</ref> Kolomoyskyi controlled, at various points in the early 2000s, three Ukrainian airlines: [[Aerosvit Airlines]],<ref>{{cite web |last=January |first=2013 {{!}} Airline {{!}} 0 {{!}} |title=AeroSvit files for bankruptcy |work=Aviation News |url=https://www.aviationnews-online.com/airline/aerosvit-files-for-bankruptcy-2/ |access-date=12 April 2022 |language=en-GB}}</ref> [[Dniproavia]],<ref>{{cite web |last=Insider |first=Russian Aviation |date=2017-11-28 |title=Ukraine's Dniproavia out of business – Russian aviation news |url=http://www.rusaviainsider.com/ukraines-dniproavia-business/ |access-date=12 April 2022 |website=Russian Aviation Insider |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Donbassaero]].<ref name="zaitsev2">{{cite news |last=Zaitsev |first=Tom |date=12 February 2010 |title=Three Ukrainian carriers seek tie-up approval |newspaper=Flightglobal |publisher=Reed Elsevier |url=http://beta.flightglobal.com/news/articles/three-ukrainian-carriers-seek-tie-up-approval-338364/ |access-date=22 July 2011}} {{dead link|date=November 2017|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> All went bankrupt. Through the asset management company Mansvell Enterprises Limited, he controlled a further three [[Scandinavia]]n airlines, [[Skyways (airline)|Skyways Express]], [[City Airline]], and [[Cimber Sterling]] each of which again, within a few years, filed for bankruptcy and ceased operations.<ref name="reuters0707112">{{cite news |last=Fraende |first=Metet |date=7 July 2011 |title=Cimber Sterling gets 165 mln DKK lifeline |publisher=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/cimbersterling-mansvell-idUSLDE6BL15L20110707 |access-date=22 July 2011}}</ref> As of 2008, other fields of activity in Ukraine as well as in Russia and Romania included: [[ferroalloy]]s, finance, oil products, and mass media,<ref name="natcio3">{{cite web |author=Mislav Šimatović |date=25 September 2007 |title=100 richest Eastern Europeans |url=http://www.nacional.hr/en/clanak/38281/100-richest-eastern-europeans |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090405150900/http://www.nacional.hr/en/clanak/38281/100-richest-eastern-europeans |archive-date=5 April 2009 |access-date=15 September 2023 |publisher=[[Nacional (weekly)|Nacional]]}}</ref><ref name="Kpost2">[http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/29135/ Ihor Kolomoysky], [[Kyiv Post]] (18 June 2008)</ref> Kolomoyskyi's media assets were initially controlled by Glavred media holding, which owns Information Agency UNIAN, the weekly magazine ''Profile'', and newspapers ''[[Novaya Gazeta]]'' and ''Gazeta po-Kievsky''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-06-18 |title=Ihor Kolomoysky - Jun. 18, 2008 |url=https://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/ukraine-politics/ihor-kolomoysky-29135.html |access-date=2022-04-10 |website=KyivPost}}</ref> In early September 2007, [[Ronald Lauder]] announced that Kolomoyskyi had acquired a 3% stake, and was on the board of directors of, [[Central European Media Enterprises]].<ref>{{cite news |date=3 September 2007 |title=Ігор Коломойський розвиватиме Central European Media Enterprises в Центральній і Східній Європі |language=uk |trans-title=Igor Kolomoisky will develop Central European Media Enterprises in Central and Eastern Europe |work=newsru.ua |url=http://www.newsru.ua/finance/03sep2007/media.html |access-date=22 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129063610/http://www.newsru.ua/finance/03sep2007/media.html |archive-date=29 November 2014}}</ref> In April 2010, through his wholly-owned Harley Trading Limited company, for around $300 million Kolomoyskyi secured control of one of Ukraine's largest media conglomerates, [[1+1 Media Group]], which operates eight Ukrainian TV channels.<ref>{{Cite web |title=1+1 Media |url=https://ukraine.mom-rsf.org/en/owners/companies/detail/company/company/show/1-1-media/ |access-date=2022-04-10 |website=ukraine.mom-rsf.org |language=en}}</ref><ref name="economist-201503283" /> In November 2019, ''[[The New York Times]]'' reported that Kolomoyskyi was behind plans to build a controversial ski resort in [[Svydovets]], Ukraine, and quoted a professor at a local university describing Kolomoyskyi as "a leech who sucks our blood here and puts it in Switzerland."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Higgins |first=Andrew |date=3 November 2019 |title=A Disgraced Ukrainian Oligarch's Bizarre Ski Resort Plan |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/03/world/europe/ukraine-kolomoisky-zelensky-ski-resort.html |access-date=9 December 2019 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> == Wealth == As of 2007, Kolomoyskyi was a billionaire listed by ''[[Forbes]]'' as the 799th-richest man in the world with 3.8&nbsp;billion dollars.<ref>[http://en.for-ua.com/blog/2007/05/29/124040.html 50 richest Ukrainians] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711020344/http://en.for-ua.com/blog/2007/05/29/124040.html|date=11 July 2011}}, ForUm (29 May 2007)</ref> In 2010 ''[[Kyiv Post]]'' estimated his wealth at $6.243 billion.<ref name="2010ealrth2">[http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/93080/ #2 Richest: Ihor Kolomoisky, 47], [[Kyiv Post]] (17 December 2010)</ref> In March 2012 ''[[Forbes magazine|Forbes]]'' placed him 377th with $3&nbsp;billion.<ref name="ForbesLOB2012KP22">[http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/123875/ Eight Ukrainians make Forbes magazine's list of world billionaires], [[Kyiv Post]] (8 March 2012)</ref> In 2010 ''[[Kyiv Post]]'' listed Kolomoyskyi as the second richest person in Ukraine;<ref name="2010ealrth2" /> in 2012 ''Forbes'' rated him the third richest person in Ukraine (after [[Rinat Akhmetov]] and/or [[Viktor Pinchuk]]).<ref name="ForbesLOB2012KP22"/><ref name="Rich Man In A Poor Country22">[http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/93082/ Rich Man In A Poor Country], [[Kyiv Post]] (17 December 2010)</ref> In March 2015, after the sharp decline in the value of the [[Ukrainian hryvnia]], ''[[The Economist]]'' listed his net worth as $1.36&nbsp;billion.<ref name="economist-201503283">{{cite news |date=28 March 2015 |title=President v oligarch |newspaper=The Economist |url=https://www.economist.com/news/europe/21647355-building-nation-means-putting-plutocrats-their-place-president-v-oligarch |access-date=28 March 2015}}</ref><ref name="2010ealrth2" /> In 2019, the Ukrainian magazine ''[[Focus (Ukrainian magazine)|Focus]]'' placed Kolomoyskyi third on a list of the 100 most influential Ukrainians.<ref>{{cite web |date=23 December 2019 |title=100 самых влиятельных украинцев |url=https://focus.ua/rating/430859-100_samykh_vliiatelnykh_ukraintsev-reiting-2019 |publisher=[[Focus (Ukrainian magazine)|Focus]]}}</ref> == Activities in the Jewish community == [[File:Dnp ukr2013 08.JPG|thumb|left|[[Menorah center, Dnipro|Synagogue and Menorah Center]]]] Kolomoyskyi has been a prominent figure in [[History of the Jews in Ukraine|Ukraine's organised Jewish community.]]<ref>[http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a99fc964-a189-11e3-a29e-00144feab7de.html Akhmetov joins Ukraine oligarchs in pledging to protect homeland] – ''Financial Times'', 2 March 2014</ref> In 2008, he was elected the President of “the United Jewish community of Ukraine” in Kyiv.<ref>{{cite web |title=Leaders of UJCU |url=https://jew.org.ua/eng/leaders |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=jew.org.ua |language=ru}}</ref> He became a major funder in Ukraine of the [[Chabad|Chabad movement]], which has Ukrainian roots.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Runyan |first=Tamar |date=17 October 2012 |title=World's Largest Jewish Center Opens in Dnepropetrovsk |url=https://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/1991671/jewish/Largest-Jewish-Center-Opens.htm |website=Chabad.Org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Ishchenko |first=Olena |date=2022-01-27 |title=The Revival of the Dnipropetrovsk and Dnipro Jewish Community in Ukraine |url=https://www.e-ir.info/2022/01/27/the-revival-of-the-dnipropetrovsk-and-dnipro-jewish-community-in-ukraine/ |access-date=2022-08-08 |website=E-International Relations |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2012, with [[Gennadiy Bogolyubov|Gennady Bogolubov]] and [[Victor Pinchuk]], he financed construction of what purports to be the largest multifunctional [[Jewish Community Center]] in Europe,<ref name="jta">{{cite web |author=Cnaan Liphshiz |date=2014-10-01 |title="Giant Ukraine JCC provides shelter from the storm — in style" |url=http://www.jta.org/2014/10/01/news-opinion/world/giant-ukraine-jcc-provides-shelter-from-the-storm-in-style |accessdate=2016-12-01 |publisher=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |df=mdy-all}}</ref> the [[Menorah center, Dnipro|Menorah Centre]], in downtown Dnipro. Comprising seven marble<ref name="jewj">{{cite web |author=Ian Shulman |date=2013-01-15 |title=World's biggest Jewish community center opens in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine |url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/worlds_biggest_jewish_community_center_opens_in_dnipropetrovsk_ukraine |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130305112604/http://jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/worlds_biggest_jewish_community_center_opens_in_dnipropetrovsk_ukraine |archive-date=5 March 2013 |accessdate=2016-12-01 |publisher=Jewish Journal |df=mdy-all}}</ref> towers (of which the highest is 20 stories) arranged in the shape of a [[Temple menorah|menorah]],<ref name="jpost">{{cite web |author=Chaim Chesler |date=2012-10-22 |title="The Menorah Center: Largest Jewish complex in world" |url=http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/The-Menorah-Center-Largest-Jewish-complex-in-world |accessdate=2016-12-01 |publisher=Jerusalem Post |df=mdy-all}}</ref> it houses a synagogue, two hotels, kosher restaurant and grocery store and Jewish Memory and [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]] Museum.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Liphshiz |first=Cnaan |date=28 July 2022 |title=Zelensky said to strip 3 Jewish oligarchs of citizenship; all hold Israeli passports |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/zelensky-reportedly-strips-3-jewish-oligarchs-of-ukrainian-citizenship/ |access-date=2022-07-28 |website=www.timesofisrael.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":9">{{Cite news |last=Marlowe |first=Lara |date=22 July 2022 |title='I think in Russian. I speak in Russian...But we are all Ukrainian now' |language=en |newspaper=The Irish Times |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2022/07/22/i-think-in-russian-i-speak-in-russianbut-we-are-all-ukrainian-now/ |access-date=2022-07-31}}</ref> In 2010 in Berlin, after promising the outgoing president he would donate $14&nbsp;million,<ref name="jweek2">[http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/63331/european-jewish-parliament-off-to-a-semi-comedic-start/ European Jewish Parliament off to a semi-comedic start] – JWeekly, 3 November 2011</ref> Kolomoyskyi was appointed as the president of the European Council of Jewish Communities (ECJC).<ref name="kyiv2">[http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/2-richest-ihor-kolomoisky-47-93080.html #2 Richest: Ihor Kolomoisky] – Kyiv Post, 17 December 2010</ref> Some western European ECJC board members described his elevation as a "[[putsch]]"<ref name="jpost2">[http://www.jpost.com/Features/Front-Lines/A-necessary-putsch A necessary putsch?] – Jerusalem Post, 29 October 2010</ref><ref name="kyiv2" /> and a "Soviet-style takeover".<ref>[http://www.jta.org/2010/11/02/news-opinion/world/like-nbas-nets-european-jewish-group-gets-an-oligarch-but-some-see-soviet-style-takeover Like NBA’s Nets, European Jewish group gets an oligarch, but some see Soviet-style takeover] – [[Jewish Telegraphic Agency|JTA]], 2 November 2010</ref> After several resigned in protest, Kolomoyskyi quit the ECJC and, together with fellow Ukrainian oligarch [[Vadim Rabinovich]], founded the [[European Jewish Union]] in April 2011.<ref name="jweek2" /> Launched by Kolomoyskyi and Rabinovich at [[Disneyland Paris]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=The Jewish Chronicle |date=27 October 2011 |title=He can't run for Euro Jewish Parliament — he's dead |url=https://www.thejc.com/news/world/he-can-t-run-for-euro-jewish-parliament-he-s-dead-1.28528 |access-date=2022-07-24 |website=www.thejc.com}}</ref> the EJU subsequently styled itself the European Jewish Parliament. Modelled on the Israeli [[Knesset]] with 120 members,<ref name="INN">{{cite web |last=Ben Gedalyahu |first=Tzvi |date=26 October 2011 |title=First Election for European Jewish Parliament |url=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149093 |work=IsraelNationalNews.com}}</ref><ref name="EJP">{{cite web |date=16 February 2012 |title=First ever 120-member European Jewish Parliament inaugurated in Brussels, event hailed as 'great day for Jews in Europe' |url=http://ejpress.org/article/56239 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220230627/http://www.ejpress.org/article/56239 |archivedate=20 February 2012 |work=Europeanjewishpress}}</ref> its declared aim is to represent the concerns of the Jewish community to the [[European Union]].<ref name="JTA">{{cite web |last=Axelrod |first=Toby |date=24 October 2011 |title=Sacha Baron Cohen a Jewish parliamentarian? One reason to doubt new Euro Jewish parliament |url=http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/10/24/3089934/sacha-baron-cohen-a-jewish-parliamentarian-one-reason-to-doubt-new-euro-jewish-parliament/ |work=JTA}}</ref> The Brussels-based initiative, with which Kolomoyskyi no longer appears to be associated,<ref>{{Cite web |last=European Jewish Parliament |title=Members Archive |url=http://ejp.eu/members/ |access-date=2022-07-24 |website=parlament |language=en-GB}}</ref> has been opposed by much of the established Jewish community leadership.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Axelrod |first=Toby |date=2012-02-14 |title=New European Jewish parliament riles existing European Jewish leaders |url=https://www.jta.org/2012/02/14/global/new-european-jewish-parliament-riles-existing-european-jewish-leaders |access-date=2022-07-24 |website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |language=en-US}}</ref> == Allegations and charges of corruption == === Nationalisation of PrivatBank === [[File:PrivatBank Headoffice.jpg|thumb|left|[[PrivatBank]] head office in [[Dnipro]], 2010]] Beginning in 2010, rumors circulated that Kolomoyskyi's assets were coming under pressure from the Ukrainian authorities and that he was spending increasingly more time in [[Switzerland]].<ref name="2010ealrth2" /> In September 2013, Kolomoyskyi was criticized by Mr Justice Mann in a court case in London involving an attempted hostile takeover in October 2010 of [[Alexander Zhukov (businessman)|Alexander Zhukov]]'s JKX Oil and Gas Company,{{efn|Zhukov has been dominate in JKX Oil and Gas since the 1980s when it held a monopoly on oil exports from the port of [[Odesa]]. In 2006, Zhukov owned a 25.88% stake in JKX Oil and Gas.<ref>{{cite news |last=Шлейнов |first=Роман (Shleinov, Roman) |url=https://2006.novayagazeta.ru/nomer/2006/63n/n63n-s13.shtml |title=Самых богатых готовят на газе: Что общего между офшорным фондом на Виргинских островах, "Росукрэнерго", "Газпромом" и российским правительством |trans-title=The richest are cooked on gas: What do the offshore fund in the Virgin Islands, Rosukrenergo, Gazprom and the Russian government have in common? |language=ru |work=[[Novaya Gazeta]] |date=21 August 2006 |access-date=22 January 2021 |archive-date=22 February 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070222140755/https://2006.novayagazeta.ru/nomer/2006/63n/n63n-s13.shtml}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Шлейнов |first=Роман (Shleinov, Roman) |url=https://novayagazeta.ru/data/2008/34/05.html |title=Кадры-2008. Мелькают все. Нефтетрейдеры протоптали тропинку в президентскую администрацию? |trans-title=Personnel-2008. Everybody flashes. Oil traders trod a path to the presidential administration? |language=ru |work=[[Novaya Gazeta]] |date=15 May 2008 |access-date=22 January 2021 |archive-date=19 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080519201933/https://novayagazeta.ru/data/2008/34/05.html |quote=Портреты нового руководителя АП. Нарышкина появились в некоторых кремлевских кабинетах еще в прошлом году. 33-летний сын главы ФСБ Бортникова Денис с ноября 2007–го – зампред правления "ВТБ Северо-Запад (Personnel-2008: Portraits of the new head of the Presidential Administration. Naryshkin appeared in some Kremlin offices last year. The 33-year-old son of the head of the FSB Bortnikov Denis since November 2007 – Deputy Chairman of the Board of VTB North-West).}}</ref>}}{{efn|In 2008, Alexander Zhukov's daughter Daria Zhukova ({{lang-ru|link=no|Дарья Жукова}}) was [[Roman Abramovich]]'s girlfriend.<ref>{{cite news |last=Быков |first=Дмитрий (Bykov, Dmitry) |url=http://www.kariera.idr.ru/items/?item=1672 |title=ХУДАША |trans-title=Skinny |language=ru |work=[[:ru:Карьера (журнал)|«Карьера»]] ("Career") |date=1 February 2008 |access-date=22 January 2021 |archive-date=11 February 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080211115824/http://www.kariera.idr.ru/items/?item=1672}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Быков |first=Дмитрий (Bykov, Dmitry) |url=http://www.kariera.idr.ru/items/?item=1672 |title=Карьера "девушки Абрамовича" Даша Жукова: "Многие думают, что я все получила на блюдечке, и только я знаю, какого труда мне все это стоило" |trans-title=The career of "Abramovich's girlfriend" Dasha Zhukova: "Many people think that I got everything on a silver platter, and only I know how much work it cost me" |language=ru |work=[[:ru:Карьера (журнал)|«Карьера»]] ("Career") |date=1 February 2008 |access-date=22 January 2021 |archive-date=11 February 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080211115824/http://www.kariera.idr.ru/items/?item=1672}}</ref><ref>[http://www.compromat.ru/page_22271.htm Alt URL]</ref>}} The judge noted that Kolomoyskyi had "a reputation of having sought to take control of a company at gunpoint in Ukraine" and that a finance director considered she had "strong grounds for doubting the honesty of Mr Kolomoyskyi".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/raiders-from-the-east-the-oligarchs-who-won-their-case-but-took-a-battering-8807681.html |title=Raiders from the east: The oligarchs who won their case but took a battering |work=[[The Independent]] |date=11 September 2013 |access-date=5 October 2023 |archive-date=18 April 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140418121237/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/raiders-from-the-east-the-oligarchs-who-won-their-case-but-took-a-battering-8807681.html}}</ref> In 2015, [[Victor Pinchuk]] brought a $2&nbsp;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. Allegations made include murder and bribery.<ref name="telegraph-201512042">{{cite news |author=David Barrett |date=4 December 2015 |title=Ukrainian oligarchs clash in court over $2bn business deal amid claims of murder and bribery |newspaper=Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/12034304/Ukrainian-oligarchs-clash-in-court-over-2bn-business-deal-amid-claims-of-murder-and-bribery.html |access-date=22 April 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Armitage |first1=Jim |date=13 March 2015 |title=Oligarchs at war: Claims of murder among Ukrainian billionaires in High Court case |work=The Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/oligarchs-at-war-claims-of-murder-among-ukrainian-billionaires-in-high-court-case-10107612.html |access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref> In January 2016 an undisclosed out-of-court settlement was reached just before the trial was due to start.<ref name="guardian-201601222">{{cite news |author=Owen Bowcott, Shaun Walker |date=22 January 2016 |title=Ukrainian oligarchs settle mine dispute worth billions out of court |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/22/ukrainian-oligarchs-settle-mine-dispute-worth-billions-out-of-court |access-date=25 November 2016}}</ref> From 1 April 2016, [[1+1 Media Group|"1+1" media group]] ceased all TV broadcasts. According to Ruslan Bortnik, director of the Ukrainian Institute of Analysis and Policy Management, unable to find external sponsors and faced with the determination of the Ukrainian government to secure own television presence, the TV project was proving unprofitable for Kolomoyskyi. Other projects, like Kolomoyskyi [[FC Dnipro|Football Club Dnipro]] where the players were not receiving their pay, were also in difficulty.<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 March 2016 |title=Expert says Ukrainian tycoon closing TV channel signals his intention to leave country |url=https://tass.com/world/865933 |access-date=2022-04-12 |website=tass.com}}</ref> Through [[Privat Group]], Kolomoyskyi also had an interest in [[HC Budivelnyk|Budivelnyk Kyiv]].<ref>{{Cite web |title="Вы попали в штангу" - ukrainian sports portal |url=https://football.ua/ownshirt/events/176015-vy-popaly-v-shtangu.html |access-date=2021-10-26 |website=football.ua}}</ref> In 2019, after being relegated FC Dnipro was dissolved.<ref>{{Cite web |title=FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk - history of the Ukrainian club |url=https://www.footballhistory.org/club/dnipro-dnipropetrovsk.html |access-date=2022-05-03 |website=www.footballhistory.org}}</ref> In 2016, 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. Between mid-2015 and mid-2016, the bank had handed out over US$1 billion in loans to firms owned by seven top managers and two subordinates of Kolomoyskyi.<ref name="RFEschemesPrivatBank2" /><ref name="OCCRP050620172">{{cite news |last=Stack |first=Graham |date=5 June 2017 |title=Ukraine's Top Bank Lent Owner's Lieutenants $1 Billion Before Nationalization |work=[[OCCRP]] |url=https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/6533-ukraine-s-top-bank-lent-owner-s-lieutenants-1-billion-before-nationalization |access-date=23 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706021125/https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/6533-ukraine-s-top-bank-lent-owner-s-lieutenants-1-billion-before-nationalization |archive-date=6 July 2017}}</ref> The [[Bank of Italy]] meanwhile shut down the Italian branch of Latvian lender AS PrivatBank after finding breaches of money-laundering regulations.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2016-08-09 |title=Bank of Italy to close AS PrivatBank branch over money-laundering breaches |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/bank-of-italy-as-privatbank-idUSL8N1AQ32G |access-date=2022-04-12}}</ref> [[Valeria Hontareva]], the former chairwoman of Ukraine's central bank, characterised Kolomoyskyi and Boholiubov operation PrivatBank as one of the biggest financial scandals of the 21st century. “Large-scale coordinated fraudulent actions of the bank shareholders and management caused a loss to the state of at least $5.5 billion,” Hontareva said in March 2018. “This is 33 percent of the population’s deposits … [and] 40 percent of our country’s monetary base". A key mechanism appears to have been the PrivatBank subsidiary in Cyprus which the Ukrainian regulator treated as if it was just another of the bank's domestic branches.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-03-24 |title=Oligarchs Weaponized Cyprus Branch of Ukraine's Largest Bank to Send $5.5 Billion Abroad |url=https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/oligarchs-weaponized-cyprus-eranch-of-ukraines-largest-bank-to-send-5-billion-abroad |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324000453/https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/oligarchs-weaponized-cyprus-eranch-of-ukraines-largest-bank-to-send-5-billion-abroad |archive-date=24 March 2022 |access-date=2022-04-13 |website=[[OCCRP]]}}</ref> In December 2016, declaring that Kolomoyskyi‘s bank was severely undercapitalized and a threat to the country's financial system, the Ukrainian government nationalized the lender,<ref name="OCCRP050620172" /> then the largest in Ukraine.<ref name="RFEschemesPrivatBank2" /><ref>{{cite news |date=19 December 2016 |title=Ukrainas valdība nacionalizējusi "PrivatBank" |language=lv |trans-title=Ukrainian government has nationalized «PrivatBank» |work=[[Public Broadcasting of Latvia]] (LSM.lv) |agency=[[Reuters]] |url=https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas/ekonomika/ukrainas-valdiba-nacionalizejusi-privatbank.a215258/ |access-date=23 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223060659/https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas/ekonomika/ukrainas-valdiba-nacionalizejusi-privatbank.a215258/ |archive-date=23 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title="ПРИВАТБАНК" Про банк » Правління та корпоративна структура » Структура власності |trans-title="PrivatBank" About the bank » Board and corporate structure » Ownership structure |url=https://privatbank.ua/ua/about/management/ownership/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141111045627/https://privatbank.ua/ua/about/management/ownership/ |archive-date=11 November 2014 |access-date=23 January 2021 |website=[[PrivatBank]] |language=uk}}</ref> A $5.6 billion bailout was financed with [[IMF]] funds.<ref name="RFEschemesPrivatBank2" /><ref name="OCCRP050620172" /> In 2018, 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. The High Court ruled that it had no jurisdiction,<ref>{{Cite web |title=London High Court throws out PrivatBank claim against Kolomoisky |url=https://www.fieldfisher.com/en/insights/london-high-court-throws-out-privatbank-claim-against-kolomoisky |access-date=2022-04-12 |website=Fieldfisher |language=en-gb}}</ref> but in 2019 the judgement 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.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2020-04-07 |title=UK's Supreme Court confirms PrivatBank claim to be heard in London |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-ukraine-privatbank-idUKKBN21P2JQ |access-date=2022-04-15}}</ref> In April 2019, a Ukrainian court ruled that the [[nationalization of PrivatBank]] was illegal.<ref name="auto2">{{Cite news |date=18 April 2019 |title=Ukraine tycoon crows 'I won' after PrivatBank nationalization ruled... |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-privatbank-idUSKCN1RU1KY |access-date=26 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=18 April 2019 |title=Ukraine court says PrivatBank nationalisation violated the law |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-privatbank-idUSS8N1YI026 |access-date=26 July 2019}}</ref> Ukraine's central bank said it would not be possible to reverse the nationalisation and that it would appeal the decision.<ref name="auto2" /> Kolomoyskyi stated that he has no interest in taking back control of the bank but sought $2bn in compensation for losses he insists were incurred during the nationalisation.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Seddon |first1=Max |date=17 July 2019 |title=The bank that holds the key to Ukraine's future |language=en-GB |website=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/7dd9c784-a3e1-11e9-a282-2df48f366f7d |access-date=26 July 2019}}</ref> On 14 February 2017 PrivatBank was liquidated.<ref name="OCCRP190420172" /><ref name="Politico171020212">{{Cite web |last=Michel |first=Casey |date=17 October 2021 |title=A Ukrainian Oligarch Bought a Midwestern Factory and Let it Rot. What Was Really Going On? |url=https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/10/17/ukrainian-oligarch-midwestern-factory-town-dirty-money-american-heartland-michel-kleptocracy-515948 |access-date=2022-01-22 |website=POLITICO |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=6 June 2017 |title=Kolomoisky's Billion Dollar Friends: Before nationalization Ihor Kolomoisky's PrivatBank lended over a billion dollars to companies belonging to his top lieutenants and two of their subordinates. Here's how much they received. |work=[[Strana.ua|СТРАНА.ua]] |url=https://strana.ua/pub/a/9/5/9537f80682731633f7951fe896326843.png |access-date=23 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606101343im_/https://strana.ua/pub/a/9/5/9537f80682731633f7951fe896326843.png |archive-date=6 June 2017}}</ref> In the summer of 2022, the Economic Court of Kyiv and the Supreme Court of Ukraine affirmed the legality of the [[National Bank of Ukraine|National Bank of Ukraine's]] actions in taking PrivatBank into government control.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NBU Welcomes Court Decision Reaffirming the Legality of Agreement on Purchase of PrivatBank's Shares |url=https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vitaye-rishennya-sudu-yakim-pidtverdjena-zakonnist-dogovoriv-kupivli-prodaju-aktsiy-privatbanku |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=National Bank of Ukraine |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Supreme Court Sustained NBU Inspection of PrivatBank in October 2016 |url=https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/verhovniy-sud-pidtverdiv-zakonnist-diy-natsionalnogo-banku-pid-chas-provedennya-inspektsiynoyi-perevirki-privatbanku-u-jovtni-2016-roku |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=National Bank of Ukraine |language=en}}</ref> === U.S. investigations and blacklisting === In April 2019 it was reported the FBI was investigating Kolomoyskyi over financial crimes involving Gennadiy Bogolyubov, the [[Kryvyi Rih]] businessman Vadim Shulman and Mordechai "Motti" Korf of Florida in relation to Kolomoyskyi steel holdings in [[West Virginia]] and northern [[Ohio]] in the United States and his mining interests in Ghana and Australia.<ref>{{cite news |last=Chakraborty |first=Barnini |date=8 April 2019 |title=FBI investigating Ukrainian oligarch Kolomoisky over alleged financial crimes: reports |work=[[Fox News]] |url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/fbi-investigating-ukrainian-oligarch-kolomoisky-over-alleged-financial-crimes-reports |access-date=22 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Kovensky |first1=Josh |last2=Vikhrov |first2=Natalie |date=2 March 2017 |title=The spectacular rise and fall of Ihor Kolomoisky's steel empire |work=[[Kyiv Post]] |url=https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/spectacular-rise-fall-ihor-kolomoiskys-steel-empire.html |url-status=live |access-date=23 January 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180716225446/https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/spectacular-rise-fall-ihor-kolomoiskys-steel-empire.html |archive-date=16 July 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Swan |first=Betsy |date=8 April 2019 |title=Billionaire Ukrainian Oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky Under Investigation by FBI: Ihor Kolomoisky, who's been accused of ordering contract killings and is said to be behind the comic who may win Ukraine's presidency, is being probed for alleged financial crimes. |work=[[The Daily Beast]] |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/billionaire-ukrainian-oligarch-ihor-kolomoisky-under-investigation-by-fbi |access-date=23 January 2021 |archive-date=5 December 2019 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20191205130715/https://www.thedailybeast.com/billionaire-ukrainian-oligarch-ihor-kolomoisky-under-investigation-by-fbi}}</ref> Legal filings from American prosecutors in 2019 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 of the country and into the U.S.<ref name="Politico171020212" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-08-06 |title=Justice Department Seeks Forfeiture of Two Commercial Properties Purchased with Funds Misappropriated from PrivatBank in Ukraine |url=https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-seeks-forfeiture-two-commercial-properties-purchased-funds-misappropriated |access-date=2022-01-22 |website=www.justice.gov |language=en}}</ref> In August 2020, the [[United States Department of Justice]] (DOJ) in the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida|Southern District of Florida (Miami)]] alleged that Kolomoyskyi, Bogolyubov, Mordechai Korf, and Uriel Lader collectively obtained numerous properties as part of a $5.5 billion [[Ponzi scheme]] as "an international conspiracy to launder money embezzled and fraudulently obtained from PrivatBank," which was nationalized in 2016 to prevent a collapse of Ukraine's equivalent to the United States' FDIC, and using PrivatBank's "Cyprus branch... as a washing machine for the stolen loan funds."<ref name="RFEschemesPrivatBank2" /><ref name="OCCRP190420172" /><ref name="Politico171020212" /><ref>{{cite news |last=Woo-Sung |first=Shim |date=October 23, 2021 |title='Pandora Papers' show corruption, money laundering behind the former Motorola property in Harvard |work=Lake McHenry Scanner |url=https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2021/10/23/pandora-papers-show-corruption-money-laundering-behind-the-former-motorola-property-in-harvard/ |access-date=March 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220323215925/https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2021/10/23/pandora-papers-show-corruption-money-laundering-behind-the-former-motorola-property-in-harvard/ |archive-date=March 23, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=August 6, 2020 |title=Privat Ponzie |url=https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1302001/download |access-date=March 23, 2022 |work=[[Department of Justice]]: Southern District of Florida |pages=6, 12 and 18 |quote=Using Korf and Laber’s network, Kolomoisky and Boholiubov spent prolifically: they purchased more than five million square feet of commercial real estate in Ohio, steel plants in Kentucky, West Virginia, and Michigan, a cellphone manufacturing plant in Illinois, and commercial real estate in Texas, among others.}} See paragraphs 21, 47, and 82.</ref> In April 2021, Kolomoyskyi and his wife and children were banned from entering the U.S.,<ref name="usds2">{{Cite web |title=Public Designation of Oligarch and Former Ukrainian Public Official Ihor Kolomoyskyy Due to Involvement in Significant Corruption |url=https://www.state.gov/public-designation-of-oligarch-and-former-ukrainian-public-official-ihor-kolomoyskyy-due-to-involvement-in-significant-corruption/ |access-date=2022-03-12 |website=United States Department of State |language=en}}</ref> The [[United States Department of State]] accused him of corruptly using his time as Governor of Dnipropetrovsk to personally enrich himself. He was "involved in corrupt acts that undermined rule of law and the Ukrainian public's faith in their government's democratic institutions and public processes, including using his political influence and official power for his personal benefit."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Public Designation of Oligarch and Former Ukrainian Public Official Ihor Kolomoyskyy Due to Involvement in Significant Corruption |url=https://www.state.gov/public-designation-of-oligarch-and-former-ukrainian-public-official-ihor-kolomoyskyy-due-to-involvement-in-significant-corruption/ |website=www.state.gov}}</ref> In his statement Secretary of State [[Antony Blinken]] said: {{Blockquote|text=While this designation is based on acts during his time in office, I also want to express concern about Kolomoyskyy’s current and ongoing efforts to undermine Ukraine’s democratic processes and institutions, which pose a serious threat to its future.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-ukraine-idUSKBN2AX1MC|title=U.S. Blacklists Ukraine's Kolomoisky over alleged corruption|publisher=Reuters|date=5 March 2021}}</ref>}} In January 2022, the DOJ announced that it had filed a civil forfeiture complaint against Kolomoyskyi in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida alleging that "more than $6 million in proceeds from the sale of commercial real estate in Dallas, Texas . . . are subject to forfeiture based on violations of federal money laundering statutes".<ref>{{cite web |last=Department of Justice |first=Office of Public Affairs |date=20 January 2022 |title=United States Files Civil Forfeiture Complaint for Proceeds of Alleged Fraud and Theft from PrivatBank in Ukraine |url=https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-files-civil-forfeiture-complaint-proceeds-alleged-fraud-and-theft-privatbank |access-date=18 May 2022 |website=www.justice.gov}}</ref> This was the fourth such action filed by the DOJ in connection with the same alleged criminal activity: the laundering of funds illegally obtained from PrivatBank through multimillion-dollar U.S. property investments.<ref>{{cite web |date=31 January 2022 |title=US Brings New Charges Against Kolomoisky - KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice |url=https://www.kyivpost.com/business/us-brings-new-charges-against-kolomoisky.html |access-date=18 May 2022 |website=KyivPost}}</ref> == Political engagement in Ukraine == Kolomoyskyi opposed the presidential ambitions and government of [[Viktor Yanukovych]] and his broadly pro-Russian [[Party of Regions]]. He had been an ally of Yanukovych's predecessor as president, former central bank governor [[Victor Yushchenko]], helping to finance Yushchenko's [[Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc]].<ref name="natcio32">{{cite web |author=Mislav Šimatović |date=25 September 2007 |title=100 richest Eastern Europeans |url=http://www.nacional.hr/en/clanak/38281/100-richest-eastern-europeans |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090405150900/http://www.nacional.hr/en/clanak/38281/100-richest-eastern-europeans |archive-date=5 April 2009 |access-date=25 July 2012 |publisher=[[Nacional (weekly)|Nacional]]}}</ref> He also supported [[Yulia Tymoshenko]] and her bloc of political parties, [[Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko]].{{cn|date=March 2023}} In the [[2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election]] Kolomoyskyi was seen by the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform's critics as standing behind the UDAR's [[Vitali Klitschko]],<ref name="CESOlszańskiUKel1222">[http://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/eastweek/2012-11-07/after-parliamentary-elections-ukraine-a-tough-victory-party-regions After the parliamentary elections in Ukraine: a tough victory for the Party of Regions] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130317180048/http://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/eastweek/2012-11-07/after-parliamentary-elections-ukraine-a-tough-victory-party-regions|date=17 March 2013}}, [[Centre for Eastern Studies]] (7 November 2012)</ref> although the party denied he was a sponsor.<ref>[http://www.kyivpost.com/content/politics/klitschko-udars-election-campaign-to-cost-hr-90-million-312994.html Klitschko: UDAR's election campaign to cost Hr 90 million], [[Kyiv Post]] (15 September 2012)</ref> === Governor of Dnipropetrovsk === ==== Confrontation with Putin ==== After the events of [[Euromaidan]] forced the resignation of Yanukovych in February 2014, acting President [[Oleksandr Turchynov]] appointed Kolomoyskyi Governor of [[Dnipropetrovsk Oblast]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kramer |first=Andrew E. |date=2014-03-02 |title=Ukraine Turns to Its Oligarchs for Political Help |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/03/world/europe/ukraine-turns-to-its-oligarchs-for-political-help.html |access-date=2022-09-25 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Kolomoyskyi responded to the then-beginning [[2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine]] by saying, "I don't understand how Ukrainians and Russians can fight," before blaming Yanukovych and President of Russia Vladimir Putin for the unrest, referring to the latter as a "schizophrenic of short stature,"{{efn|Alternatively translated as "schizophrenic dwarf."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Maheshwari |first=Vijai |date=2019-04-17 |title=The comedian and the oligarch |work=[[Politico]] |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/volodomyr-zelenskiy-ihor-kolomoisky-the-comedian-and-the-oligarch-ukraine-presidential-election/ |access-date=2022-09-25}}</ref>}} and accused him of having a "messianic drive" to recreate the [[Russian Empire]] or the [[Soviet Union]], which he said would plunge the world into catastrophe.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Olearchyk |first=Roman |date=2014-03-03 |title=Ukraine oligarch: Putin is a "schizophrenic of short stature" |work=[[Financial Times]] |url=https://www.ft.com/content/d2609f36-f8ce-3dd9-9c8b-8682710bfc13 |access-date=2022-09-25}}</ref> Two days later, [[Russian President]] [[Vladimir Putin]], who was to respond to Yanukovych's ouster by [[Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation|annexing Crimea and Sevastopol]] and initiating a [[War in Donbas (2014–2022)|separatist war in the Donbas]], described Kolomoyskyi as a "unique crook”.<ref name="BVKolG2">{{Cite web |date=4 March 2014 |title=Putin Gets Personal in Ukraine |url=http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-03-04/putin-gets-personal-in-ukraine |publisher=[[Bloomberg View]]}}</ref> According to Putin, Kolomoyskyi "even managed to cheat our [[Roman Abramovich]] two or three years ago. Scammed him, as our intellectuals like to say. They signed some deal, Abramovich transferred several billion dollars, while this guy never delivered and pocketed the money. When I asked him [Abramovich]: 'Why did you do it?' he said: 'I never thought this was possible'".<ref>{{cite web |title=Vladimir Putin – Press conference on the situation in Ukraine |url=https://genius.com/Vladimir-putin-press-conference-on-the-situation-in-ukraine-annotated/ |access-date=8 February 2018 |website=Genius}}</ref> Kolomoyskyi initially dismissed suggestions of separatism in Dnipropetrovsk.<ref>{{cite web |last=Цензор.НЕТ |title=Коломойский: "Сепаратизм на Востоке и Юге Украины не пройдет. Мы не дадим расколоть страну!" |url=https://censor.net.ua/news/272122/kolomoyiskiyi_separatizm_na_vostoke_i_yuge_ukrainy_ne_proyidet_my_ne_dadim_raskolot_stranu |access-date=14 May 2019 |website=Цензор.НЕТ|date=22 February 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=22 February 2014 |title=Коломойский предупредил Кернеса, что сепаратизм не пройдет |url=http://www.vaadua.org/news/kolomoyskiy-predupredil-kernesa-chto-separatizm-ne-proydet |access-date=14 May 2019 |website=Ассоциация еврейских организаций и общин Украины (Ваад)}}</ref> However, his then-deputy, [[Borys Filatov]] argues that Kolomoyskyi, as governor, proceeded to do "a great deal to prevent the so-called Russian Spring taking over" in the region.<ref name=":9" /> In April, Kolomoyskyi offered a bounty for the capture of Russian-backed militants and incentives for the turning in of weapons.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/17/ukrainian-oligarch-offers-financial-rewards-russians-igor-kolomoisky Ukrainian oligarch offers bounty for capture of Russian 'saboteurs'] – The Guardian, 18 April 2014</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Коломойський вже виплатив 80 тис доларів за затриманих сепаратистів |url=https://24tv.ua/news/showNews.do?kolomoyskiy_vzhe_viplativ_80_tis_dolariv_za_zatrimanih_separatistiv&objectId=435069 |access-date=14 May 2019 |website=24 Канал| date=22 April 2014 }}</ref> On 3 June 2014, Kolomoiskyi offered a $500,000 reward for the delivery of [[Oleg Tsaryov]], a leader of the separatists, to the law enforcement agencies of Ukraine.<ref>{{cite web |title=Коломойський оголосив винагороду за Царьова у півмільйона доларів |url=https://www.5.ua/polityka/kolomoiskyi-oholosyv-vynahorodu-za-tsarova-u-pivmiliona-dolariv-32869.html |access-date=14 May 2019 |website=5 канал}}</ref> He drafted thousands of Privat Group employees as auxiliary police officers.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pfeffer |first=Anshel |date=18 October 2014 |title=Is This Man the Most Powerful Jew in the World? |language=en |work=Haaretz |url=https://www.haaretz.com/2014-10-18/ty-article/.premium/the-most-powerful-jew-in-the-world/0000017f-ea28-d639-af7f-ebffe41b0000 |access-date=2022-07-24}}</ref> Kolomoyskyi is also believed to have spent $10&nbsp;million to create the [[Dnipro Battalion]],<ref name="enjoys strong support from the local population2">[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/12/dnipropetrovsk-the-ukrainian-town-determined-to-stop-putin.html The Town Determined to Stop Putin], [[The Daily Beast]] (12 June 2014)</ref><ref name="WSJ27142">{{cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraines-secret-weapon-feisty-oligarch-ihor-kolomoisky-1403886665 |title=Ukraine's Secret Weapon: Feisty Oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |date=27 June 2014 |access-date=5 October 2023 |archive-date=29 June 2015 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150629070212/http://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraines-secret-weapon-feisty-oligarch-ihor-kolomoisky-1403886665}}</ref> and to have provided funds for the [[Aidar Battalion|Aidar]], [[Azov Battalion|Azov]], and Donbas [[Territorial defense battalions (Ukraine)|volunteer battalions]].<ref name="nw-201409102">{{cite news |author=Damien Sharkov |date=10 September 2014 |title=Ukrainian Nationalist Volunteers Committing 'ISIS-Style' War Crimes |newspaper=Newsweek |url=http://www.newsweek.com/evidence-war-crimes-committed-ukrainian-nationalist-volunteers-grows-269604 |access-date=28 March 2015 |archive-date=1 October 2023 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20231001062755/https://www.newsweek.com/evidence-war-crimes-committed-ukrainian-nationalist-volunteers-grows-269604}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=5 May 2015 |title=In the battle between Ukraine and Russian separatists, shady private armies take the field |newspaper=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUS60927080220150505 |via=www.reuters.com}}</ref> Filatov concedes that these extraordinary measures were in Kolomoyskyi’s interest, since the Russians would have seized his assets.<ref name=":9" /> Following their [[2014 Russian annexation of Crimea|2014 annexation of Crimea]], the Russian authorities nationalised Kolomoyskyi's Crimean properties, including a civil airport. According to the pro-Russian Crimean leader [[Sergey Aksyonov]] the move was "totally justified due to the fact that he [Kolomoyskyi] is one of the initiators and financiers of the special [[ATO zone|anti-terrorist operation]] in the [[Eastern Ukraine]] where [[Russian citizens]] are being killed".<ref>[http://www.ceeinsight.net/2014/09/05/kolomoyskyis-assets-nationalized-crimea-sergey-aksyonov/ Kolomoyskyi’s assets to be nationalized in Crimea – Sergey Aksyonov] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308072234/http://www.ceeinsight.net/2014/09/05/kolomoyskyis-assets-nationalized-crimea-sergey-aksyonov/|date=8 March 2016}}, CEE INSIGHT (5 September 2014)</ref><ref>[http://tass.ru/en/economy/854261 Ukrainian tycoon’s estate in Crimea sold for $18 mln] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401003348/http://tass.ru/en/economy/854261 |date=1 April 2019 }}, [[Russian News Agency TASS]] (3 February 2016)</ref> In response, in January 2016 Kolomoyskyi filed a complaint against Russia at the [[Permanent Court of Arbitration]].<ref name="reuters-201601062">{{cite news |author=Thomas Escritt |date=6 January 2016 |title=UPDATE 1-Ukrainian businessman sues over annexed Crimea airport |publisher=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-russia-arbitration-idUSL8N14Q2N820160106 |access-date=22 April 2016}}</ref><ref name="mt-201409032">{{cite news |date=3 September 2014 |title=Crimea Nationalizes Assets of Pro-Kiev Ukrainian Billionaire |newspaper=Moscow Times |url=http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/crimea-nationalizes-assets-of-pro-kiev-ukrainian-billionaire/506364.html |access-date=22 April 2016}}</ref> The Russians maintained that the intergovernmental court has no jurisdiction over the matter and refused to participate in proceedings.<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-russia-arbitration-idUSL8N14Q2N820160106 UPDATE 1-Ukrainian businessman sues over annexed Crimea airport], [[Reuters]] (6 January 2016)</ref> They responded with their own charges against Kolomoyskyi, accusing him, in his support for Ukrainian resistance to Russian-backed separatists in the [[Donetsk People's Republic|Dontesk]] and [[Luhansk People's Republic|Luhansk]], of "organizing the killing of civilians".<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=Moscow Court Sanctions Arrest of Ukraine Tycoon Governor Kolomoisky |url=http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/moscow-court-sanctions-arrest-of-ukraine-tycoon-governor-kolomoisky/502854.html |access-date=8 February 2018 |website=themoscowtimes.com|date=2 July 2014 }}</ref><ref name="jewishbusinessnews-201601082">{{cite news |date=8 January 2016 |title=Russia Opens Criminal Case Against Igor Kolomoisky |newspaper=Jewish Business News |url=http://jewishbusinessnews.com/2016/01/08/russia-opens-criminal-case-against-igor-kolomoisky/ |access-date=22 April 2016}}</ref> Russia asked for Kolomoyskyi to be put on [[Interpol]]'s wanted list.{{cn|date=May 2023}} On 2 July 2014, a Russian District Court called for his arrest.<ref name=":0" /> As governor, Kolomoyskyi went to some lengths to maintain a reputation for ruthlessness: visitors to his office were unsettled by an enormous shark tank.<ref>{{cite news |title=Is This Man the Most Powerful Jew in the World? |newspaper=Haaretz |url=https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-the-most-powerful-jew-in-the-world-1.5315512}}</ref> Once he became mayor of Dnipro in November 2015, and after his boss's ouster as governor, Filatov found Kolomoyksyi's "oligarch mentality" unchanged: "he started calling to ask me favours".<ref name=":9" /> ==== Conflict with President Poroshenko ==== On 25 March 2015, Ukrainian President [[Petro Poroshenko]] signed a decree dismissing Kolomoyskyi from the post of Dnipropetrovsk RSA Head, saying "Dnipropetrovsk region must remain a bastion of Ukraine in the East and protect peace". Kolomoyskyi was replaced by [[Valentyn Reznichenko]].<ref name="economist-201503283"/><ref>{{cite web |title=President signed a Decree on dismissal of Ihor Kolomoyskyi from the post of Dnipropetrovsk RSA Head |url=http://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/32541.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150327222425/http://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/32541.html |archive-date=27 March 2015 |access-date=25 March 2015 |publisher=Press office of President of Ukraine}}</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32051743 Ukraine arrests two top officials at cabinet meeting], [[BBC News]] (25 March 2015)</ref> This followed a struggle with Poroshenko for control of the state-owned oil pipeline operator.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-03-29 |title=Kolomoisky speaks of his inner tug of war and patriots from the Opposition Bloc |url=https://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/ukraine-politics/kolomoisky-speaks-of-his-inner-tug-of-war-and-patriots-from-the-opposition-bloc-384757.html |access-date=2022-04-15 |website=KyivPost}}</ref> After Poroshenko's dismissal of [[Oleksandr Lazorko]], who was a protégé of Kolomoyskyi, as a chief executive of [[UkrTransNafta]], Kolomoyskyi dispatched his private security guards to seize control of the company's headquarters and expel the new government-appointed management. While Lazorko was in charge the state-owned pipelines had been delivering oil to a Kolomoyskyi-owned refinery in preference to competitors.<ref name="economist-201503283" /><ref>{{cite news |last1=Bershidsky |first1=Leonid |date=20 March 2015 |title=Ukraine's Oligarchs Are at War (Again) |publisher=[[Bloomberg News]] |url=http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-20/ukraine-s-oligarchs-are-at-war-again-}}</ref> In a further move against Kolomoyskyi, Poroshenko replaced Kolomoisky's long-time business partner [[Ihor Palytsa]] as governor of neighboring Odesa Oblast with the former [[Georgian president]], [[Mikheil Saakashvili]]. That appointment triggered a dramatic and public war of words between Kolomoyskyi and Saakashvili. Saakashvili told journalists Kolomoyskyi was a “gangster” and “smuggler.” Kolomoyskyi told them Saakashvili was “a dog without a muzzle” and “a snotty-nosed addict.”<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-12-21 |title=Star Wars in Ukraine: Poroshenko vs Kolomoisky |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/star-wars-in-ukraine-poroshenko-vs-kolomoisky/ |access-date=2022-04-15 |website=POLITICO |language=en-US}}</ref> Kolomoyskyi responded that the only difference between Poroshenko and Yanukovych is “a good education, good English and lack of a criminal record.” Everything else is the same: “It’s the same blood, the same flesh reincarnated. If Yanukovych was a lumpen dictator, Poroshenko is the educated usurper, slave to his absolute power, craven to absolute power.”<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-12-21 |title=Star Wars in Ukraine: Poroshenko vs Kolomoisky |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/star-wars-in-ukraine-poroshenko-vs-kolomoisky/ |access-date=2022-04-13 |website=POLITICO |language=en-US}}</ref> ==== Dnipro Guard ==== The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 again highlighted the presence in Dnipro of the volunteer "Dnipro Guard" (Варти Дніпра, Varty Dnipra), first formed in 2014 with Kolomoyskyi support in response to the [[War in Donbas (2014–2022)|war in Donbas]]. Mayor of Dnipro [[Borys Filatov]] dismissed suggestions that the group was Kolomoyskyi's "private army". The Ukrainian billionaire, according to Filatov, helped with some equipment purchases, but the volunteer guard performs defence and law and order functions under the leadership of the national police.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Горбань |first=Аліна |date=2022-04-05 |title=В університеті у Дніпрі розпочали тренінг домедичної підготовки |url=https://suspilne.media/225425-u-dnipropetrovskomu-universiteti-rozpocali-trening-domedicnoi-dopomogi-v-umovah-vijni/? |access-date=2022-04-05 |website=Суспільне {{!}} Новини |language=uk}}</ref> === Relationship with Volodymyr Zelenskyy=== [[File:Volodymyr Zelensky Official portrait.jpg|thumb|left|Official portrait of [[Volodymyr Zelenskyy]], 2019]] As of 2019, Kolomoyskyi owned 70% of the [[1+1 Media Group]] whose TV channel [[1+1 (TV channel)|1+1]] aired [[Servant of the People (TV series)|''Servant of the People'']], a comedy series in which [[Volodymyr Zelenskyy]] plays a school teacher who, defying all expectations (including his own), becomes president of Ukraine on an anti-corruption platform. In March 2018, members of Zelenskyy's production company [[Kvartal 95 Studio|Kvartal 95]] registered a new political party called "[[Servant of the People (political party)|Servant of the People]]."<ref name="SPppno31217bb">{{Cite news |date=3 December 2017 |title=Lawyer Zelenskyy has registered a new political party "Servant of the People" |language=uk |work=[[Ukrainian Independent Information Agency|UNIAN]] |url=https://www.unian.ua/m/politics/2276034-yurist-zelenskogo-zareestruvav-novu-politichnu-partiyu-sluga-narodu.html |url-status=live |access-date=1 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118204157/https://www.unian.ua/politics/2276034-yurist-zelenskogo-zareestruvav-novu-politichnu-partiyu-sluga-narodu.html |archive-date=18 January 2022}}</ref><ref name="up7196270Z">{{Cite news |date=25 October 2018 |title=The boundary of a joke. How Zelensky prepares for the election |language=uk |work=[[Ukrainska Pravda]] |url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/articles/2018/10/25/7196270/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190208184955/https://www.pravda.com.ua/articles/2018/10/25/7196270/ |archive-date=8 February 2019}}</ref> Twelve months later, they succeeded in getting their candidate past [[Yulia Tymoshenko]] in the first round of the presidential election,<ref>{{cite web |date=31 March 2019 |title=Comedian Zelensky leads after first round of Ukrainian election, exit poll shows |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-election-news-zelenskiy-first-round-polls-poroshenko-tymoshenko-latest-a8847951.html |access-date=14 May 2019 |website=The Independent}}</ref> and on 21 April 2019 to defeat President Poroshenko in the second round with 73 per cent of the vote.<ref>{{cite news |date=22 April 2019 |title=Ukraine election: Comedian Zelensky wins presidency by landslide |work=[[BBC News]] |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48007487 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190421173305/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48007487 |archive-date=21 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Election of President of Ukraine 2019 Repeat voting |url=https://ukr.vote/en/elections/7/ukraine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210813163554/https://ukr.vote/en/elections/7/ukraine |archive-date=13 August 2021 |website=UKR.VOTE}}</ref> Zelenskyy was viewed by opponents, and not least by the incumbent Poroshenko, as Kolomoyskyi's candidate.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Williams |first1=Matthias |last2=Zinets |first2=Natalie |date=2019-04-01 |title=Comedian faces scrutiny over oligarch ties in Ukraine presidential race |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-election-zelenskiy-oligarch-idUSKCN1RD30L |access-date=2022-06-26}}</ref> Zelenskyy appointed Kolomoyskyi's personal lawyer as a key campaign advisor; travelled to [[Geneva]] and [[Tel Aviv]] to confer with the then-exiled Kolomoyskyi on multiple occasions; and benefited from the endorsement of Kolomoyskyi's media empire. Once in office, Zelenskyy appeared to remove officials deemed a threat to Kolomoyskyi's interests, among them the Prosecutor General, [[Ruslan Riaboshapka|Ruslan Ryaboshapka]] and the Governor of the [[National Bank of Ukraine]] (NBU), [[Yakiv Smolii]], and Zelenskyy's first prime minister, [[Oleksiy Honcharuk]], who tried to loosen Kolomoyskyi's control of a state-owned electricity company.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Clark |first=David |date=2021-07-10 |title=Will Zelenskyy target all Ukrainian oligarchs equally? |url=https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/will-zelenskyy-target-all-ukrainian-oligarchs-equally/ |access-date=2022-04-09 |website=Atlantic Council |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Maheshwari |first=Vijai |date=2019-04-17 |title=The comedian and the oligarch |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/volodomyr-zelenskiy-ihor-kolomoisky-the-comedian-and-the-oligarch-ukraine-presidential-election/ |access-date=2022-04-09 |website=POLITICO |language=en-US}}</ref> Following the opening of U.S. criminal investigations of Kolomoyskyi and his associates, the oligarch appeared to lose influence with Zelenskyy.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last1=Romaniuk |first1=Novel |last2=Kravets |first2=Novel |date=27 January 2022 |title=Подвійне життя Коломойського. Як олігарх "пішов" з політики, але допомагає Зеленському |url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/articles/2022/01/27/7321830/ |access-date=2022-05-05 |website=Українська правда |language=uk}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Michel |first=Casey |title=Who is Ihor Kolomoisky? {{!}} The Spectator |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/who-is-ihor-kolomoisky- |access-date=2022-05-05 |website=www.spectator.co.uk |date=13 March 2022 |language=en}}</ref> In 2020, Zelenskyy sponsored a law that banned former owners from recovering nationalized assets.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |last=Kossov |first=Igor |date=2022-07-23 |title=Rumors of Zelensky stripping top oligarch Kolomoisky's citizenship gain ground |url=https://kyivindependent.com/national/rumors-of-zelensky-stripping-top-oligarch-kolomoiskys-citizenship-gain-ground |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=The Kyiv Independent}}</ref> On 1 February 2021, [[Oleksandr Dubinsky]], a former [[1+1 Media Group|1+1]] journalist who had actively opposed this so-called "anti-Kolomoyskyi law",<ref name=":7">{{Cite web |title=Ihor Kolomoisky - profiles, relations, career, biography, family |url=https://en.thepage.ua/dossier/kolomoisky-ihor |access-date=2022-05-05 |website=The Page |date=30 June 2020 |language=en}}</ref> was expelled from Zelenskyy's [[Servant of the People]] parliamentary faction.<ref name="Dubinsk11305589">[https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3182465-mp-dubinsky-expelled-from-servant-of-the-people-faction.html MP Dubinsky expelled from Servant of the People faction], [[Ukrinform]] (2 February 2021)[https://www.unian.info/politics/dubinsky-mp-expelled-from-ruling-faction-11305589.html Ruling faction in Ukraine's Parliament expels MP Dubinsky], [[UNIAN]] (1 February 2021) {{in lang|uk}} [https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2021/02/1/7281952/ Dubinsky was expelled from the "Servant of the People" faction], [[Ukrainska Pravda]] (1 February 2021)</ref> Claiming he was part of a "Russia-linked foreign influence network" associated with fellow People's Deputy [[Andrii Derkach]], the [[U.S. Department of the Treasury]]'s [[Office of Foreign Assets Control]] had placed Dubinsky on its sanction list .<ref name="dubinsky3173883prosecutor">[https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3173883-prosecutor-generals-office-opens-proceedings-against-mp-dubinsky.html Prosecutor General's Office opens proceedings against MP Dubinsky], [[Ukrinform]] (19 January 2021)</ref> As had Rabinovich as co-founder of the [[Opposition Platform — For Life|Opposition Platform]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Liphshiz |first=Cnaan |date=21 April 2022 |title=Ukraine adds local Jewish leader to list of pro-Russian 'traitors' |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/ukraine-adds-local-jewish-leader-to-list-of-pro-russian-traitors/ |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=www.timesofisrael.com |language=en-US}}</ref> Kolomoyskyi had begun to call for a new partnership between Ukraine and Russia. When that happened, he proposed that [[NATO]] would be "soiling its pants and buying [[Pampers]]."<ref name=":1" /> Meanwhile, striking "a more assertive tone", Zelenskyy was pushing for membership of the [[European Union]] and the [[NATO]] alliance".<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-02-26 |title=Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky: The comedian president who is rising to the moment |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59667938 |access-date=2022-05-05}}</ref> In response to the announced of US sanctions against Kolomoyskyi in April 2021, the Office of the Ukrainian President released a statement declaring “Ukraine must overcome a system dominated by oligarchs” and acknowledging that “Ukraine is grateful to each partner for its support along the way”.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dickinson |first=Peter |date=2021-03-09 |title=US sanctions Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky |url=https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/us-sanctions-ukrainian-oligarch-ihor-kolomoisky/ |access-date=2022-05-18 |website=Atlantic Council |language=en-US}}</ref> In October 2021, the [[Pandora Papers]] revealed that Zelenskyy and two of his [[Kvartal 95 Studio|Kvartal 95]] associates operated a network of offshore companies in the [[British Virgin Islands]], [[Cyprus]], and [[Belize]] dating back to 2012.<ref name="PandoraZelensky">[https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pandora-papers/pandora-papers-reveal-offshore-holdings-of-ukrainian-president-and-his-inner-circle Pandora Papers Reveal Offshore Holdings of Ukrainian President and his Inner Circle] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211009145036/https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pandora-papers/pandora-papers-reveal-offshore-holdings-of-ukrainian-president-and-his-inner-circle|date=9 October 2021}}, [[Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project]] (3 October 2021) {{Cite news |date=3 October 2021 |title=Revealed: 'anti-oligarch' Ukrainian president's offshore connections |language=en-GB |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/03/revealed-anti-oligarch-ukrainian-president-offshore-connections-volodymyr-zelenskiy |url-status=live |access-date=3 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211003165731/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/03/revealed-anti-oligarch-ukrainian-president-offshore-connections-volodymyr-zelenskiy |archive-date=3 October 2021}}</ref><ref name=":8">{{Cite web |last=Loginova (OCCRP/Slidstvo.Info) |first=Elena |date=3 October 2021 |title=Pandora Papers Reveal Offshore Holdings of Ukrainian President and his Inner Circle |url=https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pandora-papers/pandora-papers-reveal-offshore-holdings-of-ukrainian-president-and-his-inner-circle |access-date=2022-07-29 |website=OCCRP |language=en}}</ref> Zelenskyy’s office sought to justify the network as having been a means of protecting him against the aggressive abuse of tax inspection powers by President Viktor Yanukovych.<ref>{{Cite web |date=4 October 2021 |title=Pandora Papers: Ukraine leader seeks to justify offshore accounts |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/4/pandora-papers-ukraine-leader-seeks-to-justify-offshore-accounts |access-date=2022-07-29 |website=www.aljazeera.com |language=en}}</ref> Potentially more damaging than the appearance of tax evasion was the charge by a political ally of Poroshenko, the journalist [[Volodymyr Ariev]], that the network had laundered some $41 million in funds from Kolomoyskyi’s Privatbank.<ref name=":8" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Harding |first=Luke |date=2021-10-03 |title=Revealed: 'anti-oligarch' Ukrainian president's offshore connections |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/03/revealed-anti-oligarch-ukrainian-president-offshore-connections-volodymyr-zelenskiy |access-date=2022-07-29 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Al Jazeera |date=5 October 2021 |title='Pandora's box may ruin Zelenskyy's chances for a second term' |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/5/pandora-papers-no-re-election-for-ukraines-comedian-president |access-date=2022-07-29 |website=www.aljazeera.com |language=en}}</ref> While investigative journalists suspected that channels of communication with the president remained open,<ref name=":2" /> Kolomoyskyi insisted that he no longer communicated with Zelenskyy.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last1=Kravets |first1=Novel |last2=Balachuk |first2=Irina |date=15 February 2022 |title=Коломойський: Я не спілкуюсь із Зеленським, це може зробити погано і мені, і йому |url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2022/02/15/7324032/ |access-date=2022-05-05 |website=Українська правда |language=uk}}</ref> He explained that his former [[protégé]] "has chosen his path". As president Zelenskyy "has his own vision, program, plans" and as he, a businessman, no longer wants anything from the state, they have nothing to talk about.<ref name=":3" /> Kolomoyskyi had the reputation for being able to dictate the votes of deputies within Zelenskyy's parliamentary faction by phone but press reports before the Russian invasion suggested he had "disappeared", staying deliberately away from politics.<ref name=":2" /> Despite this, in January 2022, Zelenskyy's Justice Minister Denis Malyuska proposed that Kolomoyskyi's was an "obvious" name to be entered on the register of the new anti-oligarchic law that was to come into effect in May 2022.<ref name=":2" /> In the wake of the Russian invasion, Zelenskyy was seen to be under increased pressure to counter Ukraine's reputation as a kleptocracy and respond to the ongoing investigation of Kolomoyskyi in the United States.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |date=24 July 2022 |title=Oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, under FBI probe, stripped of Ukraine citizenship |url=https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2022/07/24/oligarch-ihor-kolomoisky-stripped-ukraine-citizenship/stories/202207230047 |access-date=2022-07-24 |website=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |language=en}}</ref> In both [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] and European capitals, proponents of large-scale assistance to Ukraine contended with [[Transparency International]]'s European ranking of Ukraine as [[Corruption in Ukraine|second only to Russia in institutional corruption]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Plewes |first=Dominique L. |date=2022-06-09 |title=Aid to Ukraine: The Perils of Largesse |url=https://www.thedefensepost.com/2022/06/09/us-aid-ukraine-corruption/ |access-date=2022-07-24 |website=The Defense Post |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=AP |date=2022-07-20 |title=Corruption concerns in Ukraine resurface as US-aid inflows amid ongoing war |work=Business Standard India |url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/corruption-concerns-in-ukraine-resurface-as-us-aid-inflows-amid-ongoing-war-122072000263_1.html |access-date=2022-07-24}}</ref> Due to accountancy concerns, approved funds were not being released.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Aris |first=Ben |date=2022-07-14 |title=The West approves badly needed budgetary support for Ukraine, but delays dog distribution of funds |url=https://www.intellinews.com/the-west-approves-badly-needed-budgetary-support-for-ukraine-but-delays-dog-distribution-of-funds-250417/ |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=www.intellinews.com |language=en}}</ref> == Revocation of Ukrainian citizenship and subsequent sanctions == On 28 July 2022, Zelenskyy appeared to confirm the authenticity of an 18 July presidential decree published online by opposition MP [[Serhiy Vlasenko]]<ref name=":10">{{Cite web |date=28 July 2022 |title=Rumor has it Did Zelensky strip Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky of his citizenship? (Update) |url=https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/07/28/rumor-has-it |access-date=2022-08-01 |website=Meduza |language=en}} *{{Cite web |date=28 July 2022 |title=Zelensky made a statement about depriving Korban of Ukrainian citizenship |url=https://frontnews.eu/en/news/details/37216/ |access-date=2022-08-01 |website=frontnews.eu |language=en}}</ref> that strips Ukrainian citizenship from Kolomoyskyi and nine others,<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |last=Nahaylo |first=Bohdan |date=2022-07-21 |title=Have Kolomoisky, Rabynovych and Korban been stripped of their Ukrainian citizenship? - KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice |url=https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/have-kolomoisky-rabynovych-and-korban-been-stripped-of-their-ukrainian-citizenship.html |access-date=2022-07-24 |website=KyivPost}}</ref> including [[Vadim Rabinovich]]<ref name=":5" /> and both [[Hennadiy Korban]], former deputy governor of [[Dnipropetrovsk Oblast|Dnipropetrovsk]] under Kolomoyskyi (and since 24 February 2022, head of the Dnipro Territorial Defence).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Interfax-Ukraine |date=2022-07-22 |title=Korban confirms he was not allowed into Ukraine, passport seized - KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice |url=https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/korban-confirms-he-not-allowed-into-ukraine-his-passport-seized.html |access-date=2022-07-24 |website=KyivPost}}</ref> and Although dual citizenship is prohibited under Ukrainian law, all three held Israeli passports.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-07-23 |title=Ukraine: huit personnalités politiques déchues de leur nationalité par décret présidentiel |url=https://www.rfi.fr/fr/europe/20220723-ukraine-huit-personnalit%C3%A9s-politiques-d%C3%A9chues-de-leur-nationalit%C3%A9-par-d%C3%A9cret-pr%C3%A9sidentiel |access-date=2022-07-24 |website=RFI |language=fr}}</ref> Kolomoyskyi, who additionally holds a Cypriot passport, reportedly quipped that while Ukrainian law prohibits dual citizenship, it says nothing about triple citizenship.<ref name=":6" /> Kolomoyskyi potentially had safe haven in Ukraine. Article 25 of the [[Constitution of Ukraine|country's constitution]] states that “a citizen of Ukraine cannot be expelled from Ukraine or extradited to another state.” But there may be grounds for appeal, as it also rules that "a citizen of Ukraine cannot be deprived of citizenship".<ref name=":6" /> "There is no speculation", Zelenskyy said. "We grant or revoke citizenship of our state on a regular basis. This is a constant process. And all this happens all the time within the framework of the current legislation."<ref name=":11">{{Cite web |date=28 July 2022 |title=Zelensky made a statement about depriving Korban of Ukrainian citizenship |url=https://frontnews.eu/en/news/details/37216/ |access-date=2022-08-01 |website=frontnews.eu |language=en}}</ref> Justice Minister [[Denys Maliuska]] refuted the suggestion that by this measure Zelenskyy shielded Kolomoyskyi from the proscriptions of the anti-oligarch law, and noted that for the purposes of the law foreigners could also be designated as oligarchs.<ref name=":10" /> In July 2022, a member of Zelenskyy’s team reportedly claimed that Kolomoyskyi was "holed up" in the Menorah Centre that he helped finance in Dnipro, hiding from Russian shelling, and that he had retired not only from business, but also from "socio-political life".<ref>{{Cite web |last=The New Voice of Ukraine |date=24 July 2022 |title=The fallout of Zelenskyy's secret citizenship revocations |url=https://news.yahoo.com/fallout-zelenskyy-secret-citizenship-revocations-100000727.html |access-date=28 July 2022 |website=news.yahoo.com |language=en-US}}</ref> At the end of June 2022, the barrister representing Kolomoyskyi in the London [[High Court in London|High Court]], Mark Howard [[King's Counsel|KC]], said his client was a “target” of the Russian president. “We know that President Putin has him within his sights,” he told the court. The barrister for his co-defendant in the Privatbank fraud case made the same claim for [[Hennadiy Boholyubov]], whom he also described as hiding from bombs in Ukraine. Clare Montgomery QC suggested to the court that the war has “rendered oligarchy a worthless concept in the Ukraine”. Acknowledging the difficulties faced by the two billionaires in preparing their cases, Justice Trower, agreed to delay the trial until June 2023.<ref>{{cite web |last=Bentham |first=Martin |date=1 July 2022 |title=Oligarch 'left fearing for his life in Ukraine bomb shelter' as he faces trial |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/oligarch-ukraine-bomb-shelter-faces-trial-b1009670.html |access-date=30 July 2022 |website=Evening Standard}}</ref> Under martial law, in November 2022 the Ukrainian authorities seized two oil companies, Ukrnafta and Ukrtatnafta, in which Kolomoyskyi is a major shareholder, after Ukraine’s security service (SBU) said it had uncovered the embezzlement of more than $1bn.<ref name=":12">{{cite web |title=Home of Ukrainian oil tycoon raided in anti-corruption purge |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/1/home-of-ukrainian-oil-tycoon-raided-in-anti-corruption-purge |access-date=4 March 2023 |website=www.aljazeera.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Garrod |first=Michael |date=12 December 2022 |editor-last=Ryabchiy |editor-first=Kate |title=Ukraine's war-time nationalization of strategic enterprises rectifies past sins |url=https://euromaidanpress.com/2022/12/12/ukraines-overlooked-nationalization-of-strategic-enterprises-deals-blow-to-oligarchy-and-corruption/}}</ref>{{what|verify denomination is US dollars|date=October 2023}} At the end of January 2023, they raided Kolomoyskyi's home in what a Zelenskyy ally described as a sweeping wartime clampdown on corruption that would change the country.<ref name=":12" /> ===September 2023 arrest and charges=== Kolomoyskyi was arrested by the [[Security Service of Ukraine]] (SBU) on 2 September 2023 on charges of money laundering and fraud, and placed under pre-trial arrest until 31 October with the option of posting 509 million [[hryvnia]] (14 million USD) in bail.<ref>{{cite web |last=Terajima |first = Asami |date=2 September 2023 |title=Court arrests oligarch Kolomoisky, sets $14 million bail |website=The Kyiv Independent |access-date=10 September 2023 |url=https://kyivindependent.com/court-arrests-kolomoisky-sets-14-million-bail/}}</ref> Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office accused Kolomoyskyi of laundering $13.5 million between 2013 and 2020 by transferring funds abroad.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Voitovych |first1=Olga |last2=Pennington |first2=Josh |last3=Lockwood |first3=Pauline |last4=Chen |first4=Heather |title=Ukrainian oligarch and Zelensky supporter Ihor Kolomoisky arrested in fraud investigation |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/03/world/ihor-kolomoisky-ukraine-fraud-investigation-intl-hnk/index.html |publisher=[[CNN]] |date=3 September 2023 |access-date=3 September 2023}}</ref> Kolomoyskyi's lawyers said he would not pay bail and would appeal the ruling.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Méheut |first1=Constant |title=Ukraine's Arrest of Powerful Oligarch Is Latest Sign of Anti-Corruption Efforts |work=The New York Times |date=4 September 2023 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/04/world/europe/ihor-kolomoisky-arrest-corruption.html |access-date=9 September 2023}}</ref> President Zelenskyy thanked Ukrainian law enforcement in his 2 September nightly address, saying there would be "no more decades-long 'business as usual' for those who plundered Ukraine and put themselves above the law and any rules".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Terajima |first1=Asami |title=Zelensky thanks law enforcement after Kolomoisky arrest |url=https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-thanks-law-enforcement-after-kolomoisky-arrest/ |website=The Kyiv Independent |date=2 September 2023 |access-date=9 September 2023}}</ref> On 7 September, the [[National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine]] (NABU) placed additional charges against Kolomoyskyi for allegedly embezzling 9.2 billion hryvnia (250 million USD) from PrivatBank, using an offshore company between January and March 2015,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Fornusek |first1=Martin |last2= The Kyiv Independent news desk |title=Oligarch Kolomoisky charged with embezzling $250 million from PrivatBank |url=https://kyivindependent.com/oligarch-kolomoisky-charged-with-embezzling-250-million-from-privatbank/ |website=The Kyiv Independent |date=7 September 2023 |access-date=9 September 2023}}</ref> and seized his assets together with the [[Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office]] (SAPO).<ref>{{cite web |title=NABU, SAPO seize Kolomoisky's assets |url=https://interfax.com.ua/news/general/933806-amp.html |website=Interfax Ukraine |date=9 August 2023 |access-date=9 September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Ukrainian oligarch sanctioned following the FinCEN Files investigation arrested in Ukraine |url=https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/ukrainian-oligarch-sanctioned-following-the-fincen-files-investigation-arrested-in-ukraine/ |date=7 September 2023}}</ref> On 15 September, the SBU announced that Kolomoyskyi had been served with a third notice of suspicion for the alleged embezzlement of UAH 5.8 billion (approximately 155.6 million USD),<ref>{{cite web |last=Balachuk |first=Iryna |title=Ukrainian oligarch Kolomoiskyi served new notice of suspicion |url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/09/15/7419898/ |website=Ukrainska Pravda |access-date=15 September 2023}}</ref> also from PrivatBank.<ref name="Reuters3">{{cite news |title=New allegation against detained Ukrainian magnate Kolomoisky, official says |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/new-allegation-against-detained-ukrainian-magnate-kolomoisky-official-says-2023-09-15/ |website=Reuters |date=15 September 2023 |access-date=15 September 2023}}</ref><ref name="pravda3">{{cite web |title=Ukrainian oligarch served third notice of suspicion |url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/09/15/7419880/ |website=Ukrainska Pravda |access-date=15 September 2023}}</ref> [[Serhiy Leshchenko]], an advisor in Zelenskyy's office, reported on Telegram that the new allegations included "forging documents, illegal takeovers of property by an organised group, and property acquisition in questionable circumstances" (as summarised by [[Reuters]]), and were based on an investigation by the Ukrainian [[Bureau of Economic Security (Ukraine)|Bureau of Economic Security]].<ref name="Reuters3" /><ref name="pravda3" /> Following the third set of charges, the court increased Kolomoyskyi's bail to 3.8 billion hryvnia (105 million USD).<ref>{{cite web |last1=Khalilova |first1=Dinara |title=Court increases bail for oligarch Kolomoisky to $105 million following fresh charges |url=https://kyivindependent.com/court-increases-bail-for-oligarch-kolomoisky-to-105-million/ |website=The Kyiv Independent |date=16 September 2023 |access-date=16 September 2023}}</ref> ==Personal life== Kolomoyskyi is currently a citizen of [[Israel]] and [[Cyprus]].<ref name="tdg2014">{{cite news |last=Rossier |first=Roland |title=L'oligarque " genevois " qui défie Poutine |language=fr |work=Tribune de Genève |access-date=8 July 2014 |date=30 May 2014 |url=http://www.tdg.ch/economie/entreprises/L-oligarque--genevois--qui-defie-Poutine/story/21138894}}</ref> He is married to fellow Dnipro native Irina Mikhailovna Kolomoyska. They have a daughter, Angelika Kolomoyska, and a son, Israel Zvi Kolomoyskyi.<ref>{{cite web |title=Биография за семью замками: кто такая Ирина Коломойская и почему ее никто не видел |url=https://www.rbc.ua/rus/styler/biografiya-semyu-zamkami-takaya-irina-kolomoyskaya-1614961018.html |access-date=2022-07-28 |website=РБК-Украина |language=uk}}</ref> ==Awards== * 2006 – Knight of [[Order of Merit (Ukraine)|the Order "For Merits"]] III degree (19 August)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.president.gov.ua/documents/4871.html |title=Указ Президента України №&nbsp;697/2006 "Про відзначення державними нагородами України" |access-date=23 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306062250/http://www.president.gov.ua/documents/4871.html |archive-date=6 March 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> * 2015 – "For sacrifice and love for Ukraine", from the [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate|UOC-KP]] and Patriarch [[Filaret (Denysenko)|Filaret]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://espreso.tv/news/2015/03/28/kyyivskyy_patriarkhat_nahorodyv_kolomoyskoho_medallyu_quotza_zhertovnistquot|title=Київський патріархат нагородив Коломойського медаллю "за жертовність"|website=espreso.tv|access-date=14 May 2019}}</ref> ==See also== *[[Ukrainian oligarchs]] ==Notes== {{Notelist}} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * {{Commons category-inline}} * [https://thepage.ua/ua/dossier/kolomojskij-igor Kolomoisky's dossier] on [https://thepage.ua/ua/news The Page] {{In lang|uk}} {{2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kolomoyskyi, Ihor}} [[Category:1963 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Businesspeople from Dnipro]] [[Category:Governors of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast]] [[Category:Businesspeople in metals]] [[Category:Businesspeople in the oil industry]] [[Category:Recipients of the Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class]] [[Category:National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine alumni]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of Israel]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of Cyprus]] [[Category:People who lost Ukrainian citizenship]] [[Category:Privat Group]] [[Category:Soviet Jews]] [[Category:Ukrainian billionaires]] [[Category:Ukrainian mass media owners]] [[Category:Ukrainian philanthropists]] [[Category:Ukrainian football chairmen and investors]] [[Category:FC Dnipro]] [[Category:Pro-Ukrainian people of the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine]] [[Category:Cypriot billionaires]] [[Category:Ukrainian oligarchs]] [[Category:Jewish Ukrainian politicians]] [[Category:Ukrainian emigrants to Cyprus]] [[Category:Cypriot philanthropists]] [[Category:20th-century Ukrainian businesspeople]] [[Category:21st-century Ukrainian businesspeople]] [[Category:Ukrainian bankers]] [[Category:Politicians from Dnipro]] [[Category:21st-century Ukrainian politicians]] [[Category:Israeli billionaires]] [[Category:UKROP politicians]] [[Category:Israeli people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent]] [[Category:Pro-Ukrainian people of the war in Donbas]] [[Category:21st-century Israeli Jews]] [[Category:21st-century Ukrainian Jews]] [[Category:Individuals sanctioned by the United States Department of State]] [[Category:Ukrainian Association of Football officials]]'