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Former NSDC secretary Oleksandr Danilyuk said that, according to his information, Ukraine’s General Prosecutor’s Office is preparing the extradition of businessman Igor Kolomoisky. Attorney General Irina Venediktova neither confirmed nor denied this.
Former NSDC secretary Alexander Danilyuk said on February 26 that according to his information, documents are being prepared on the extradition of businessman Igor Kolomoisky.
“According to my sources in the Attorney General’s Office, he is now preparing documents for the extradition of a citizen of Cyprus and Israel, Igor Valerievich Kolomoisky. Refute or confirm this information,” he told Attorney General Irina Venediktova on the air of the program. “Freedom of expression Savik Shuster”, which is broadcast on the channel “Ukraine” and on the online YouTube channel Shuster.
Danilyuk did not elaborate. Kolomoisky was in Ukraine in November.
“I am a law enforcement officer. All you just said are your sources, unknown to me. There is an article 222 story. [Уголовного процессуального кодекса Украины], which does not allow the disclosure of data. Last name, huh? Why are we talking about this case today? She is sensitive to us, because behind her are people as omnipotent as [бизнесмены] Kolomoisky and [Геннадий] Bogolyubov. This is the first case of this caliber, which in the state goes to a different stage, ”said the Attorney General.
Venediktova did not deny or confirm the information of the former NSDC secretary.
“I will do that for which there is a sufficient evidentiary basis. Today, the issue of names is not a question of the functionality of criminal justice, it should not work like that. There should be no names behind procedural decisions. The law should work the same for everyone, “he said.
Kolomoisky is in the top ten among botgic Ukrainians. With a fortune of one billion dollars, the businessman occupied the eighth position in the ranking of Forbes Ukraine magazine as of May 2020. PAGon the evaluation of the journal Nevada at the end of October of the same year, with a fortune of $ 1.18 billion, he ranks sixth on the list of the richest citizens in the country.
In August 2020, the US Department of Justice filed two civil lawsuits against Kolomoisky and Bogolyubov, in which it accused businessmen of laundering PrivatBank funds. Ministry of Justice requires the confiscation of property acquired by them in the United States. The estimated value of the property they want to seize is about $ 70 million.
Kolomoisky denied the US Department of Justice’s allegations of PrivatBank money laundering. “All investments in the United States were made with own resources received in 2007-2008 by virtue of an agreement with Evraz, and with the income of other businesses that were maintained in PrivatBank,” said the businessman in August. In the context of these events on August 10 in Kiev, activists demanded Kolomoisky’s extradition to the United States, they wrote “Letters”.
At the end of the year, the United States Department of Justice filed another civil suit against businessmen. It states that the commercial real estate in Cleveland, Ohio, “was acquired using embezzled funds from PrivatBank in Ukraine through a multi-million dollar loan scheme.”
PrivatBank, Ukraine’s largest commercial bank, was nationalized on December 19, 2016. Ukraine has increased the bank’s capitalization by 155 billion UAH.
Since June 2017, the Attorney General’s Office has been investigating the financial entity. According to the investigation, from October 20 to November 22, 2016, before nationalization, PrivatBank granted loans to 36 legal entities for a period of eight to 10 years at a rate of 10.5% per annum for a total of 126.9 billion from UAH. These funds did not remain in the debtors’ accounts, but were immediately transferred to repay loans to 193 legal entities.
Since the same year, Ukraine has sued the former owners of PrivatBank, who dispute its nationalization. In 2019, the court declared it illegal. The NBU appealed against this decision. Legal proceedings are ongoing.
In December 2017, PrivatBank filed a lawsuit against its former owners. The plaintiffs argued that the businessmen withdrew about $ 2 billion from the bank, conducting a series of illegal transactions.
On December 19, a London court issued an order for the worldwide seizure of the assets of Kolomoisky and Bogolyubov and six companies that they allegedly own or are under their control.
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