Ukrainian businessman and oligarch Kolomoisky has received third suspicion notice

Ukrainian businessman and oligarch Igor Kolomoisky has received yet another, his third, suspicion notice.

This information comes from Sergey Leshchenko, an adviser to the head of the Presidential Office, citing an investigation conducted by the Bureau of Economic Security.

According to the document from the Bureau of Economic Security, Kolomoisky is suspected of:

• Organizing the forgery of documents for fund transfers.
• Organizing the misappropriation of someone else’s property by an organized group on an especially large scale.
• Acquiring and disposing of property where the circumstances suggest that it was obtained through criminal means.

“The pre-trial investigation has established that Kolomoisky organized and led an organized group. The group included the head of the Kyiv branch of PrivatBank, Sergey Volkov, and other officials from the Kyiv branch and the main office of PrivatBank.

Kolomoisky, as the organizer, and other group members devised a plan of criminal activity aimed at misappropriating PrivatBank’s funds. This plan involved creating an illusion of depositing cash by Kolomoisky into the cash register of the main office of PrivatBank, recording them, arranging the transportation of non-existent cash by PrivatBank’s cash collectors, and so on.

The artificial deposit of cash by Kolomoisky occurred from March 26, 2013, to February 18, 2014, totaling 5 billion 878 million hryvnias,” according to Leshchenko.

He further stated that the non-cash funds, in the amount of 5.878 billion hryvnias, were subsequently laundered through their reassignment to other accounts.