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Five Ukrainian businessmen, Igor Kolomoisky, Gennady Bogolyubov, Konstantin Grigorishin, Vitaly Gaiduk and Mikhail Kiperman, received Cypriot citizenship in exchange for investments. Their naturalization is considered suspicious by the current authorities, since these people were included in the “high risk zone”, writes the Politis website.
In Cyprus, a scandal erupts related to the granting of citizenship of the country to people included in the “high risk zone”. On September 6, the Politis website published a previously classified list of 34 Ukrainians, Russians and residents of other countries, who were naturalized by the previous authorities in exchange for investments.
Cyprus President Nikos Anastasiades sent the list to the country’s party leaders. The site accessed the document and decided to release it to the public after government sources assured that the seal “secretly removed from the document.
Cypriot citizenship was granted to “politically exposed persons” for those who he was accused and convicted in his own countries, or was on the board of companies that were sanctioned, the newspaper says.
The list includes five Ukrainian businessmen:
- Igor Kolomoisky (also granted citizenship to his wife and daughter);
- Gennady Bogolyubov;
- Konstantin Grigorishin (at the time of obtaining a Cypriot passport he was a citizen of Russia);
- Vitaly Gaiduk (his wife received citizenship two years earlier);
- Mikhail Kiperman (member of the Ukrnafta Supervisory Board, his wife also received a passport).
Gaiduk (former ISD co-owner) is listed as a “politically exposed person” – Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of the National Defense and Security Council of Ukraine.
Kolomoisky at the time of obtaining a passport charged with a series of violent seizures and predatory business practices, in addition to giving false testimony in court.
Grigorishin was banned from entering Ukraine several times. for illegal possession of weapons and for participation in attacks by assailants. The Russian authorities pursued him for tax evasion.
Most of the suspicious naturalizations occurred during the reign of President Dimitris Christofias (2008-2013), says Politis.
In 2017, The Guardian wrote for the first time that Kolomoisky, Bogolyubov and Grigorishin bought a “golden visa”, passports from Cyprus, in exchange for investments in this country. Kolomoisky in 2018 confirmed that he has citizenship of Ukraine, Israel and Cyprus.
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