Title: Ihor Kolomoyskyi

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| Ihor Kolomoyskyi |
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| Ігор Коломойський |
| [![Image 1](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi2.jpg/250px-Ihor_Kolomoyskyi2.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ihor_Kolomoyskyi2.jpg) Kolomoyskyi in 2014 |
| Born | 13 February 1963 (age 63) [Dnipropetrovsk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnipro "Dnipro"), [Ukrainian SSR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic "Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic"), [Soviet Union](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union "Soviet Union") (now Dnipro, [Ukraine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine "Ukraine"))[[1]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-Rencs-1) |
| Other name | Igor Kolomoisky |
| Citizenship | [Israel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel "Israel") |
| Alma mater | [Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Academy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Metallurgical_Academy_of_Ukraine "National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine")[[2]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-LIGA-2) |
| Occupations | Businessman, politician |
| Known for | Former co-owner of [PrivatBank](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrivatBank "PrivatBank") Former owner of former [FC Dnipro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Dnipro "FC Dnipro")[[3]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-ForbesProfile-3) |
| Spouse | Irina Kolomoyskaya |
| Children | 2 |
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| [Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Dnipropetrovsk_Oblast "Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast") |
| **In office** 2 March 2014[[2]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-LIGA-2)–24 March 2015 |
| Preceded by | Dmytro Kolesnikov[[4]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-4)[[5]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-5) |
| Succeeded by | [Valentyn Reznichenko](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentyn_Reznichenko "Valentyn Reznichenko")(acting)[[6]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-6) |
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**Ihor Valeriyovych Kolomoyskyi** ([Ukrainian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_language "Ukrainian language"): Ігор Валерійович Коломойський; [Hebrew](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language "Hebrew language"): איגור קולומויסקי; born 13 February 1963) is a Ukrainian-born Israeli billionaire businessman, once considered the leading [oligarch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_oligarch "Business oligarch") in Ukraine.

Already an entrepreneur in the last years of [Soviet Ukraine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic "Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic"), in 2010 Kolomoyskyi was rated as the second richest person in Ukraine, and as one of the country's most influential [oligarchs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_oligarch "Ukrainian oligarch"). In 1992, he had co-founded [PrivatBank](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrivatBank "PrivatBank") and its informal stable of companies, [Privat Group](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privat_Group "Privat Group"). He subsequently acquired extensive media holdings. From 2014 till 2015, Kolomoyskyi served as Governor of [Dnipropetrovsk Oblast](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnipropetrovsk_Oblast "Dnipropetrovsk Oblast") until his dismissal by President [Petro Poroshenko](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_Poroshenko "Petro Poroshenko"). In 2016, 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy "Volodymyr Zelenskyy")'s successful [presidential campaign](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Ukrainian_presidential_election "2019 Ukrainian presidential election") to unseat Poroshenko.

In 2020, he was indicted in the [United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States "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 [Russian invasion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine "2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine") were nationalised. These included Ukraine's largest gasoline companies. In 2023, Kolomoyskyi was arrested by the [Security Service of Ukraine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Service_of_Ukraine "Security Service of Ukraine") (SBU) on charges of money laundering and fraud, and placed under pre-trial arrest.

Kolomoyskyi uses the nickname _Benya_ ([Russian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language "Russian language"): Беня),[[7]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-7) an invocation of the infamous Ukrainian (and Jewish) criminal reprobate [Benya Krik](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benya_Krik "Benya Krik"), popularly fictionalized in [Isaac Babel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Babel "Isaac Babel")'s _[Odessa Stories](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odessa\_Stories "Odessa Stories")_. Occasionally, Kolomoyskyi is called _Bonifatsiy_ (the eponymous star of the popular Soviet cartoon "[Каникулы Бонифация](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8B%20%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F "ru:Каникулы Бонифация")" (_Bonifacy's holidays_ by [Soyuzmultfilm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuzmultfilm "Soyuzmultfilm")).[_[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation\_needed "Wikipedia:Citation needed")_]

## Early life and education

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Kolomoyskyi was born into a [Jewish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Jewish "Ukrainian Jewish") family in [Dnipropetrovsk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnipro "Dnipro"), [Ukrainian SSR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic "Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic"), [Soviet Union](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union "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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komsomol "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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Metallurgical_Academy_of_Ukraine "National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine")), graduating in 1985.[[8]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-decoratex.biz-8)

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.[[8]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-decoratex.biz-8)[[9]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-9) 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulia_Tymoshenko "Yulia Tymoshenko"), [Victor Pinchuk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Pinchuk "Victor Pinchuk"), [Serhiy Tihipko](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serhiy_Tihipko "Serhiy Tihipko"), and [Oleksandr Turchynov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksandr_Turchynov "Oleksandr Turchynov").[[10]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-Bloom97815013453642-10)

In 1986, Kolomoyskyi found work in the Fianit trading cooperative.[[11]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-:72-11)

In 1990, with two other graduates from Dnipropetrovsk universities, [Gennadiy Bogolyubov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennadiy_Bogolyubov "Gennadiy Bogolyubov") and Oleksiy Martynov, Kolomoyskyi created a joint enterprise marketing office equipment bought in [Moscow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskva_River "Moskva River"). After the [collapse of the USSR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union "Dissolution of the Soviet Union"), the partners, joined by the son of a major Soviet entrepreneur, Leonid Miloslavsky, began to import foreign goods – from sneakers and sportswear to telephones.[[12]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-forbes-12) 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 [Pokrov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokrov,_Ukraine "Pokrov, Ukraine") (Ordzhonikidze) [mineral processing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_processing "Mineral processing") combine, receiving in return [manganese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manganese "Manganese") ore for export.[[12]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-forbes-12)[[13]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-13)

In 1991, together with Leonid Miloslavsky, Oleksiy Martynov, and [Hennadiy Boholyubov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henadiy_Boholyubov "Henadiy 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferroalloy "Ferroalloy"), supplied Ordzhonikidze GOK (later Pokrov Mining and Processing Plant GOK) with fuel, and received manganese ore for further export under barter agreements.[[11]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-:72-11)

In March 1992, the four companies of the Privat Group established [Privatbank](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatbank "Privatbank") CJSC.[[14]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-ubr-14) Unlike state-owned banks, Privat willingly served private entrepreneurs and in 1995 participated aggressively in the [voucher scheme for the privatization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voucher_privatization "Voucher privatization") of state assets.[[12]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-forbes-12) With the blessing of Prime Minister [Leonid Kuchma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Kuchma "Leonid Kuchma") (also from Dnipro, and whose successful presidential campaign in 1994 Kolomoyskyi and his partners later funded),[[15]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-15) PrivatBank was also the only Ukrainian lender to receive permission from the [National Bank of Ukraine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bank_of_Ukraine "National Bank of Ukraine") to open overseas branches. One branch in [Latvia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvia "Latvia"), established in 1992, was later implicated in the [2014 Moldovan bank fraud scandal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Moldovan_bank_fraud_scandal "2014 Moldovan bank fraud scandal"). The operations of a second, opened in the late 1990s in [Cyprus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus "Cyprus"), helped precipitate the [nationalization of PrivatBank in 2016](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalization_of_PrivatBank "Nationalization of PrivatBank").[[16]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-RFEschemesPrivatBank2-16)[[17]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-OCCRP190420172-17)[[18]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-18)[[19]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-19)[[20]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-20)

Between 1999 and 2003, Kolomoyskyi gained control of [Ukrnafta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrnafta "Ukrnafta"), Kalinin Coke and Chemical Plant, Ozerka market in Dnipropetrovsk, [Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikopol_Ferroalloy_Plant "Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant"), and other companies.[[8]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-decoratex.biz-8) Through Privat Group, whose board he chaired from 1997,[[21]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-Gaurd2-21) Kolomoyskyi controlled, at various points in the early 2000s, three Ukrainian airlines: [Aerosvit Airlines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerosvit_Airlines "Aerosvit Airlines"),[[22]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-22)[Dniproavia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dniproavia "Dniproavia"),[[23]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-23)[Donbassaero](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donbassaero "Donbassaero").[[24]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-zaitsev2-24) All went bankrupt. Through the asset management company Mansvell Enterprises Limited, he controlled a further three [Scandinavian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia "Scandinavia") airlines, [Skyways Express](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyways_(airline) "Skyways (airline)"), [City Airline](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Airline "City Airline"), and [Cimber Sterling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimber_Sterling "Cimber Sterling") each of which again, within a few years, filed for bankruptcy and ceased operations.[[25]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-reuters0707112-25)

As of 2008, other fields of activity in Ukraine as well as in Russia and Romania included: [ferroalloys](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferroalloy "Ferroalloy"), finance, oil products, and mass media.[[26]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-natcio3-26)[[27]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-Kpost2-27)

Kolomoyskyi's media assets were initially controlled by Glavred media holding, which owns Information Agency UNIAN, the weekly magazine _Profile_, and newspapers _[Novaya Gazeta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novaya\_Gazeta "Novaya Gazeta")_ and _Gazeta po-Kievsky_.[[28]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-28) In early September 2007, [Ronald Lauder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Lauder "Ronald Lauder") announced that Kolomoyskyi had acquired a 3% stake, and was on the board of directors of, [Central European Media Enterprises](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_European_Media_Enterprises "Central European Media Enterprises").[[29]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-29) 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1+1_Media_Group "1+1 Media Group"), which operates eight Ukrainian TV channels.[[30]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-30)[[31]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-economist-201503283-31)[[32]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-32)

In November 2019, _[The New York Times](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_New\_York\_Times "The New York Times")_ reported that Kolomoyskyi was behind plans to build a controversial ski resort in [Svydovets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svydovets "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."[[33]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-33)

As of 2007, Kolomoyskyi was a billionaire listed by _[Forbes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes "Forbes")_ as the 799th-richest man in the world with 3.8 billion dollars.[[34]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-34) In 2010 _[Kyiv Post](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv\_Post "Kyiv Post")_ estimated his wealth at $6.243 billion.[[35]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-2010ealrth2-35) In March 2012 _[Forbes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes\_magazine "Forbes magazine")_ placed him 377th with $3 billion.[[36]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-ForbesLOB2012KP22-36) In 2010 _[Kyiv Post](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv\_Post "Kyiv Post")_ listed Kolomoyskyi as the second richest person in Ukraine;[[35]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-2010ealrth2-35) in 2012 _Forbes_ rated him the third richest person in Ukraine (after [Rinat Akhmetov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinat_Akhmetov "Rinat Akhmetov") and/or [Viktor Pinchuk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Pinchuk "Viktor Pinchuk")).[[36]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-ForbesLOB2012KP22-36)[[37]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-Rich_Man_In_A_Poor_Country22-37)

In March 2015, after the sharp decline in the value of the [Ukrainian hryvnia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_hryvnia "Ukrainian hryvnia"), _[The Economist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Economist "The Economist")_ listed his net worth as $1.36 billion.[[31]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-economist-201503283-31)[[35]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-2010ealrth2-35) In 2019, the Ukrainian magazine _[Focus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus\_(Ukrainian\_magazine) "Focus (Ukrainian magazine)")_ placed Kolomoyskyi third on a list of the 100 most influential Ukrainians.[[38]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-38)

[![Image 2](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Dnp_ukr2013_08.JPG/250px-Dnp_ukr2013_08.JPG?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dnp_ukr2013_08.JPG)

[Synagogue and Menorah Center](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menorah_center,_Dnipro "Menorah center, Dnipro")

Kolomoyskyi has been a prominent figure in [Ukraine's organised Jewish community.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Ukraine "History of the Jews in Ukraine")[[39]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-39) In 2008, he was elected the President of "the United Jewish community of Ukraine" in Kyiv.[[40]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-40) He became a major funder in Ukraine of the [Chabad movement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chabad "Chabad"), which has Ukrainian roots.[[41]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-41)[[42]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-42)

In 2012, with [Gennady Bogolubov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennadiy_Bogolyubov "Gennadiy Bogolyubov") and [Victor Pinchuk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Pinchuk "Victor Pinchuk"), he financed construction of what purports to be the largest multifunctional [Jewish Community Center](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Community_Center "Jewish Community Center") in Europe,[[43]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-jta-43) the [Menorah Centre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menorah_center,_Dnipro "Menorah center, Dnipro"), in downtown Dnipro. Comprising seven marble[[44]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-jewj-44) towers (of which the highest is 20 stories) arranged in the shape of a [menorah](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_menorah "Temple menorah"),[[45]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-jpost-45) it houses a synagogue, two hotels, kosher restaurant and grocery store and Jewish Memory and [Holocaust](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust "The Holocaust") Museum.[[46]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-46)[[47]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-:9-47)

In 2010 in Berlin, after promising the outgoing president he would donate $14 million,[[48]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-jweek2-48) Kolomoyskyi was appointed as the president of the European Council of Jewish Communities (ECJC).[[49]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-kyiv2-49) Some western European ECJC board members described his elevation as a "[putsch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putsch "Putsch")"[[50]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-jpost2-50)[[49]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-kyiv2-49) and a "Soviet-style takeover".[[51]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-51) After several resigned in protest, Kolomoyskyi quit the ECJC and, together with fellow Ukrainian oligarch [Vadim Rabinovich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadim_Rabinovich "Vadim Rabinovich"), founded the [European Jewish Union](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Jewish_Union "European Jewish Union") in April 2011.[[48]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-jweek2-48)

Launched by Kolomoyskyi and Rabinovich at [Disneyland Paris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland_Paris "Disneyland Paris"),[[52]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-52) the EJU subsequently styled itself the European Jewish Parliament. Modelled on the Israeli [Knesset](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knesset "Knesset") with 120 members,[[53]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-INN-53)[[54]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-EJP-54) its declared aim is to represent the concerns of the Jewish community to the [European Union](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union "European Union").[[55]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-JTA-55) The Brussels-based initiative, with which Kolomoyskyi no longer appears to be associated,[[56]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-56) has been opposed by much of the established Jewish community leadership.[[57]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-57)

## Allegations and charges of corruption

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### Nationalisation of PrivatBank

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[![Image 3](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/PrivatBank_Headoffice.jpg/250px-PrivatBank_Headoffice.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PrivatBank_Headoffice.jpg)

[PrivatBank](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrivatBank "PrivatBank") head office in [Dnipro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnipro "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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland "Switzerland").[[35]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-2010ealrth2-35)

In September 2013, Kolomoyskyi was criticized by [Mr Justice Mann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Mann_(judge) "Anthony Mann (judge)") in a court case in London involving an attempted hostile takeover in October 2010 of [Alexander Zhukov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Zhukov_(businessman) "Alexander Zhukov (businessman)")'s JKX Oil and Gas Company,[[a]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-60)[[b]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-64) 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".[[63]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-65)

In 2015, [Victor Pinchuk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Pinchuk "Victor Pinchuk") brought a $2 billion civil action against Kolomoyskyi and [Gennadiy Bogolyubov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennadiy_Bogolyubov "Gennadiy Bogolyubov") in the [High Court of Justice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Court_of_Justice "High Court of Justice") in London over the 2004 purchase of a Ukrainian mining company. Allegations made include murder and bribery.[[64]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-telegraph-201512042-66)[[65]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-67) In January 2016 an undisclosed out-of-court settlement was reached just before the trial was due to start.[[66]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-guardian-201601222-68)

From 1 April 2016, ["1+1" media group](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 [Football Club Dnipro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Dnipro "FC Dnipro") where the players were not receiving their pay, were also in difficulty.[[67]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-69) Through [Privat Group](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privat_Group "Privat Group"), Kolomoyskyi also had an interest in [Budivelnyk Kyiv](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HC_Budivelnyk "HC Budivelnyk").[[68]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-70) In 2019, after being relegated FC Dnipro was dissolved.[[69]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-71)

In 2016, Kolomoyskyi and his business partner [Gennadiy Bogolyubov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennadiy_Bogolyubov "Gennadiy Bogolyubov") were accused of defrauding Ukraine's largest bank [PrivatBank](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrivatBank "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.[[16]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-RFEschemesPrivatBank2-16)[[70]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-OCCRP050620172-72) The [Bank of Italy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Italy "Bank of Italy") meanwhile shut down the Italian branch of Latvian lender AS PrivatBank after finding breaches of money-laundering regulations.[[71]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-73)[Valeria Hontareva](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeria_Hontareva "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.[[72]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-74)

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,[[70]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-OCCRP050620172-72) then the largest in Ukraine.[[16]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-RFEschemesPrivatBank2-16)[[73]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-75)[[74]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-76) A $5.6 billion bailout was financed with [IMF](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMF "IMF") funds.[[16]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-RFEschemesPrivatBank2-16)[[70]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-OCCRP050620172-72) In 2018, the now nationalized PrivatBank brought a lawsuit against Kolomoyskyi and Bogolyubov in the [High Court in London](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Court_in_London "High Court in London") and secured a worldwide freeze on their assets. The High Court ruled that it had no jurisdiction,[[75]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-77) but in 2019 the judgment was overturned on appeal, with the UK Supreme Court finding that the $3 billion claim against the former owners of the bank can be heard in a London court.[[76]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-78)

In April 2019, a Ukrainian court ruled that the [nationalization of PrivatBank](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalization_of_PrivatBank "Nationalization of PrivatBank") was illegal.[[77]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-auto2-79)[[78]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-80) Ukraine's central bank said it would not be possible to reverse the nationalisation and that it would appeal the decision.[[77]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-auto2-79) 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.[[79]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-81) On 14 February 2017 PrivatBank was liquidated.[[17]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-OCCRP190420172-17)[[80]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-Politico171020212-82)[[81]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-83)

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's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bank_of_Ukraine "National Bank of Ukraine") actions in taking PrivatBank into government control.[[82]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-84)[[83]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-85) In 2024, the [Cassational](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassation "Cassation") Court also rejected final appeals of the case.[[84]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-86)

### U.S. investigations and blacklisting

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In April 2019 it was reported the FBI was investigating Kolomoyskyi over financial crimes involving Gennadiy Bogolyubov, the [Kryvyi Rih](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryvyi_Rih "Kryvyi Rih") businessman [Vadim Shulman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadim_Shulman "Vadim Shulman") and Mordechai "Motti" Korf of Florida in relation to Kolomoyskyi steel holdings in [West Virginia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia "West Virginia") and northern [Ohio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio "Ohio") in the United States and his mining interests in Ghana and Australia.[[85]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-87)[[86]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-88)[[87]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-89) 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.[[80]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-Politico171020212-82)[[88]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-90)

In August 2020, the [United States Department of Justice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice "United States Department of Justice") (DOJ) in the [Southern District of Florida (Miami)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Southern_District_of_Florida "United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida") alleged that Kolomoyskyi, Bogolyubov, Mordechai Korf, and Uriel Lader collectively obtained numerous properties as part of a $5.5 billion [Ponzi scheme](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme "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 the Ukrainian equivalent to the United States' FDIC, while using PrivatBank's "Cyprus branch... as a washing machine for the stolen loan funds."[[16]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-RFEschemesPrivatBank2-16)[[17]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-OCCRP190420172-17)[[80]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-Politico171020212-82)[[89]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-91)[[90]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-92)

In April 2021, Kolomoyskyi and his wife and children were banned from entering the U.S.[[91]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-usds2-93)[[92]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-94) The [United States Department of State](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State "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."[[93]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-95) In his statement, Secretary of State [Antony Blinken](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Blinken "Antony Blinken") said:

> 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.[[94]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-96)

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".[[95]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-97) 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.[[96]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-98)

## Political engagement in Ukraine

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Kolomoyskyi opposed the presidential ambitions and government of [Viktor Yanukovych](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych "Viktor Yanukovych") and his broadly pro-Russian [Party of Regions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_of_Regions "Party of Regions"). He had been an ally of Yanukovych's predecessor as president, former central bank governor [Viktor Yushchenko](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yushchenko "Viktor Yushchenko"), helping to finance Yushchenko's [Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Ukraine%E2%80%93People's_Self-Defense_Bloc "Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc").[[97]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-natcio32-99) He also supported [Yulia Tymoshenko](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulia_Tymoshenko "Yulia Tymoshenko") and her bloc of political parties, [Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloc_Yulia_Tymoshenko "Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko").[_[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation\_needed "Wikipedia:Citation needed")_] In the [2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Ukrainian_parliamentary_election "2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election") Kolomoyskyi was seen by the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform's critics as standing behind the UDAR's [Vitali Klitschko](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitali_Klitschko "Vitali Klitschko"),[[98]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-CESOlsza%C5%84skiUKel1222-100) although the party denied he was a sponsor.[[99]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-101)

### Governor of Dnipropetrovsk

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#### Confrontation with Putin

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After the events of [Euromaidan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromaidan "Euromaidan") forced the resignation of Yanukovych in February 2014, acting President [Oleksandr Turchynov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksandr_Turchynov "Oleksandr Turchynov") appointed Kolomoyskyi Governor of [Dnipropetrovsk Oblast](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnipropetrovsk_Oblast "Dnipropetrovsk Oblast").[[100]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-102) Kolomoyskyi responded to the then-beginning [2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_pro-Russian_unrest_in_Ukraine "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,"[[c]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-104) and accused him of having a "messianic drive" to recreate the [Russian Empire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Empire "Russian Empire") or the [Soviet Union](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union "Soviet Union"), which he said would plunge the world into catastrophe.[[102]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-105)

Two days later, [Russian president](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_president "Russian president")[Vladimir Putin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin "Vladimir Putin") described Kolomoyskyi as a "unique crook".[[103]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-BVKolG2-106) According to Putin, Kolomoyskyi "even managed to cheat our [Roman Abramovich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Abramovich "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'".[[104]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-107)

Kolomoyskyi initially dismissed suggestions of separatism in Dnipropetrovsk.[[105]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-108)[[106]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-109) However, his then-deputy, [Borys Filatov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borys_Filatov "Borys Filatov") argues that Kolomoyskyi, as governor, proceeded to do "a great deal to prevent the so-called [Russian Spring](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Spring_in_Ukraine "Russian Spring in Ukraine") taking over" in the region.[[47]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-:9-47) In April, Kolomoyskyi offered a bounty for the capture of Russian-backed militants and incentives for the turning in of weapons.[[107]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-110)[[108]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-111) On 3 June 2014, Kolomoiskyi offered a $500,000 reward for the delivery of [Oleg Tsaryov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Tsaryov "Oleg Tsaryov"), a leader of the separatists, to the law enforcement agencies of Ukraine.[[109]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-112) He drafted thousands of Privat Group employees as auxiliary police officers.[[110]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-113) Kolomoyskyi is also believed to have spent $10 million to create the [Dnipro Battalion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnipro_Battalion "Dnipro Battalion"),[[111]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-enjoys_strong_support_from_the_local_population2-114)[[112]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-WSJ27142-115) and to have provided funds for the [Aidar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aidar_Battalion "Aidar Battalion"), [Azov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion "Azov Battalion"), and Donbas [volunteer battalions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_defense_battalions_(Ukraine) "Territorial defense battalions (Ukraine)").[[113]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-nw-201409102-116)[[114]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-117)

Filatov concedes that these extraordinary measures were in Kolomoyskyi's interest, since the Russians would have seized his assets.[[47]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-:9-47) Following their [2014 annexation of Crimea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Russian_annexation_of_Crimea "2014 Russian annexation of Crimea"), the Russian authorities nationalised Kolomoyskyi's Crimean properties, including a civil airport. According to the pro-Russian Crimean leader [Sergey Aksyonov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aksyonov "Sergey Aksyonov") the move was "totally justified due to the fact that he [Kolomoyskyi] is one of the initiators and financiers of the special [anti-terrorist operation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATO_zone "ATO zone") in the [Eastern Ukraine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Ukraine "Eastern Ukraine") where [Russian citizens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_citizens "Russian citizens") are being killed".[[115]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-118)[[116]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-119) In response, in January 2016, Kolomoyskyi filed a complaint against Russia at the [Permanent Court of Arbitration](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_Court_of_Arbitration "Permanent Court of Arbitration").[[117]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-reuters-201601062-120)[[118]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-mt-201409032-121)

The Russians maintained that the intergovernmental court has no jurisdiction over the matter and refused to participate in proceedings.[[119]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-122) They responded with their own charges against Kolomoyskyi, accusing him, in his support for Ukrainian resistance to Russian-backed separatists in the [Dontesk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donetsk_People's_Republic "Donetsk People's Republic") and [Luhansk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhansk_People's_Republic "Luhansk People's Republic"), of "organizing the killing of civilians".[[120]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-:0-123)[[121]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-jewishbusinessnews-201601082-124) Russia asked for Kolomoyskyi to be put on [Interpol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpol "Interpol")'s wanted list.[_[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation\_needed "Wikipedia:Citation needed")_] On 2 July 2014, a Russian District Court called for his arrest.[[120]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-:0-123)

As governor, Kolomoyskyi went to some lengths to maintain a reputation for ruthlessness: visitors to his office were unsettled by an enormous shark tank.[[122]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-125) 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".[[47]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-:9-47)

#### Conflict with President Poroshenko

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On 25 March 2015, Ukrainian president [Petro Poroshenko](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_Poroshenko "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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentyn_Reznichenko "Valentyn Reznichenko").[[31]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-economist-201503283-31)[[123]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-126)[[124]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-127) This followed a struggle with Poroshenko for control of the state-owned oil pipeline operator.[[125]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-128) After Poroshenko's dismissal of [Oleksandr Lazorko](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksandr_Lazorko?action=edit&redlink=1 "Oleksandr Lazorko (page does not exist)"), who was a protégé of Kolomoyskyi, as a chief executive of [UkrTransNafta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UkrTransNafta "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.[[31]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-economist-201503283-31)[[126]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-129)

In a further move against Kolomoyskyi, Poroshenko replaced Kolomoysky's long-time business partner [Ihor Palytsia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ihor_Palytsia "Ihor Palytsia") as governor of neighboring Odesa Oblast with the former [Georgian president](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_president "Georgian president"), [Mikheil Saakashvili](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikheil_Saakashvili "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."[[127]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-130)

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."[[128]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-131)

The [Russian invasion of Ukraine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine "Russian invasion of Ukraine") that has begun on 24 February 2022 again has highlighted the presence in Dnipro of the volunteer "Dnipro Guard" (Варта Дніпра, Varta Dnipra), first formed in 2014 with Kolomoyskyi support in response to the [war in Donbas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas_(2014%E2%80%932022) "War in Donbas (2014–2022)"). Mayor of Dnipro [Borys Filatov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borys_Filatov "Borys Filatov") dismissed suggestions that the group was Kolomoyskyi's "private army". Kolomoyskyi, according to Filatov, helped with some equipment purchases, but the volunteer guard performs (as of March 2022) defence and law and order functions under the leadership of the national police.[[129]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-132)

### Relationship with Volodymyr Zelenskyy

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Official portrait of [Volodymyr Zelenskyy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy "Volodymyr Zelenskyy"), 2019

As of 2019, Kolomoyskyi owned 70% of the [1+1 Media Group](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1+1_Media_Group "1+1 Media Group") whose TV channel [1+1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1+1_(TV_channel) "1+1 (TV channel)") aired [_Servant of the People_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_of_the_People_(2015_TV_series) "Servant of the People (2015 TV series)"), a comedy series in which [Volodymyr Zelenskyy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy "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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvartal_95_Studio "Kvartal 95 Studio") registered a new political party called "[Servant of the People](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_of_the_People_(political_party) "Servant of the People (political party)")."[[130]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-SPppno31217bb-133)[[131]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-up7196270Z-134) Twelve months later, Zelenskyy won the first round of the presidential election,[[132]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-135) and then defeated President Poroshenko in the second round with 73 per cent of the vote.[[133]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-136)[[134]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-137)

Zelenskyy was viewed by opponents, and not least by the incumbent Poroshenko, as Kolomoyskyi's candidate.[[135]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-138) Zelenskyy appointed Kolomoyskyi's personal lawyer as a key campaign advisor; travelled to [Geneva](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva "Geneva") and [Tel Aviv](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv "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 Ryaboshapka](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruslan_Riaboshapka "Ruslan Riaboshapka"), the governor of the [National Bank of Ukraine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bank_of_Ukraine "National Bank of Ukraine") (NBU), [Yakiv Smolii](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakiv_Smolii "Yakiv Smolii"), and Zelenskyy's first prime minister, [Oleksiy Honcharuk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksiy_Honcharuk "Oleksiy Honcharuk"), who tried to loosen Kolomoyskyi's control of a state-owned electricity company.[[136]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-139)[[137]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-140)

Following the opening of U.S. criminal investigations of Kolomoyskyi and his associates, the oligarch appeared to lose influence with Zelenskyy.[[138]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-:2-141)[[139]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-:1-142) In 2020, Zelenskyy sponsored a law that banned former owners from recovering nationalized assets.[[140]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-:6-143) On 1 February 2021, [Oleksandr Dubinsky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksandr_Dubinsky "Oleksandr Dubinsky"), a former [1+1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1+1_Media_Group "1+1 Media Group") journalist who had actively opposed this so-called "anti-Kolomoyskyi law",[[141]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-:7-144) was expelled from Zelenskyy's [Servant of the People](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_of_the_People "Servant of the People") parliamentary faction.[[142]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-Dubinsk11305589-145) Claiming he was part of a "Russia-linked foreign influence network" associated with fellow People's Deputy [Andrii Derkach](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrii_Derkach "Andrii Derkach"), the [U.S. Department of the Treasury](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Department_of_the_Treasury "U.S. Department of the Treasury")'s [Office of Foreign Assets Control](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Foreign_Assets_Control "Office of Foreign Assets Control") had placed Dubinsky on its sanction list.[[143]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-dubinsky3173883prosecutor-146)

As had Rabinovich, as co-founder of the [Opposition Platform](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_Platform_%E2%80%94_For_Life "Opposition Platform — For Life"),[[144]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-147) Kolomoyskyi had begun to call for a new partnership between Ukraine and Russia. When that happened, he proposed that [NATO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO "NATO") would be "soiling its pants and buying [Pampers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pampers "Pampers")."[[139]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-:1-142) Meanwhile, striking "a more assertive tone", Zelenskyy was pushing for membership of the [European Union](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union "European Union") and the NATO alliance".[[145]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-148) In response to the announcement 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".[[146]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-149)

In October 2021, the [Pandora Papers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_Papers "Pandora Papers") revealed that Zelenskyy and two of his [Kvartal 95](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvartal_95_Studio "Kvartal 95 Studio") associates operated a network of offshore companies in the [British Virgin Islands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Virgin_Islands "British Virgin Islands"), [Cyprus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus "Cyprus"), and [Belize](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize "Belize") dating back to 2012.[[147]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-PandoraZelensky-150)[[148]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-:8-151) 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.[[149]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-152) Potentially more damaging than the appearance of tax evasion was the charge by a political ally of Poroshenko, the journalist [Volodymyr Ariev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Ariev "Volodymyr Ariev"), that the network had laundered some $41 million in funds from Kolomoyskyi's Privatbank.[[148]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-:8-151)[[150]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-153)[[151]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-154)

While investigative journalists suspected that channels of communication with the president remained open,[[138]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-:2-141) Kolomoyskyi insisted that he no longer communicated with Zelenskyy.[[152]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-:3-155) He explained that his former [protégé](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prot%C3%A9g%C3%A9 "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.[[152]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-:3-155) 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.[[138]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-:2-141) Despite this, in January 2022, Zelenskyy's Justice Minister [Denis Malyuska](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denys_Maliuska "Denys Maliuska") 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.[[138]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-:2-141)

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.[[153]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-:4-156) In both [Washington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C. "Washington, D.C.") and European capitals, proponents of large-scale assistance to Ukraine contended with [Transparency International](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparency_International "Transparency International")'s European ranking of Ukraine as [second only to Russia in institutional corruption](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Ukraine "Corruption in Ukraine").[[154]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-157)[[155]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-158) Due to accountancy concerns, approved funds were not being released.[[156]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-159)

## Revocation of Ukrainian citizenship and subsequent sanctions

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On 28 July 2022, Zelenskyy appeared to confirm the authenticity of an 18 July presidential decree published online by opposition MP [Serhiy Vlasenko](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serhiy_Vlasenko "Serhiy Vlasenko")[[157]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-:10-160) that strips Ukrainian citizenship from Kolomoyskyi and nine others,[[158]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-:5-161) including [Vadim Rabinovich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadim_Rabinovich "Vadim Rabinovich")[[158]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-:5-161) and both [Hennadiy Korban](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hennadiy_Korban "Hennadiy Korban"), former deputy governor of [Dnipropetrovsk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnipropetrovsk_Oblast "Dnipropetrovsk Oblast") under Kolomoyskyi (and since 24 February 2022, head of the Dnipro Territorial Defence).[[159]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-162) Although dual citizenship is prohibited under Ukrainian law, all three held Israeli passports.[[160]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-163) Kolomoyskyi, who additionally holds a Cypriot passport, reportedly quipped that while Ukrainian law prohibits dual citizenship, it says nothing about triple citizenship.[[140]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-:6-143)

Kolomoyskyi potentially had safe haven in Ukraine. Article 25 of the [country's constitution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Ukraine "Constitution of Ukraine") 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".[[140]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-:6-143)

"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."[[161]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-:11-164) Justice Minister [Denys Maliuska](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denys_Maliuska "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.[[157]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-:10-160)

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".[[162]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-165)

At the end of June 2022, the barrister representing Kolomoyskyi in the London [High Court](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Court_in_London "High Court in London"), Mark Howard [KC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King's_Counsel "King's Counsel"), 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hennadiy_Boholyubov "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.[[163]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-166)

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.[[164]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-:12-167)[[165]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-168)[_[clarification needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please\_clarify "Wikipedia:Please clarify")_] 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.[[164]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-:12-167)

### September 2023 arrest and charges

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Kolomoyskyi was arrested by the [Security Service of Ukraine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Service_of_Ukraine "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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hryvnia "Hryvnia") (US$14 million) in bail.[[166]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-169) Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office accused Kolomoyskyi of laundering $13.5 million between 2013 and 2020 by transferring funds abroad.[[167]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-170) Kolomoyskyi's lawyers said he would not pay bail and would appeal the ruling.[[168]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-171)

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".[[169]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-172)

On 7 September, the [National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Anti-Corruption_Bureau_of_Ukraine "National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine") (NABU) placed additional charges against Kolomoyskyi for allegedly embezzling 9.2 billion hryvnia (US$250 million) from PrivatBank using an offshore company between January and March 2015,[[170]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-173) and seized his assets together with the [Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialized_Anti-Corruption_Prosecutor's_Office "Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office") (SAPO).[[171]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-174)[[172]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-175)

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 US$155.6 million),[[173]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-176) also from PrivatBank.[[174]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-Reuters3-177)[[175]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-pravda3-178)[Serhiy Leshchenko](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serhiy_Leshchenko "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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters "Reuters")), and were based on an investigation by the Ukrainian [Bureau of Economic Security](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Economic_Security_(Ukraine)?action=edit&redlink=1 "Bureau of Economic Security (Ukraine) (page does not exist)").[[174]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-Reuters3-177)[[175]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-pravda3-178) Following the third set of charges, the court increased Kolomoyskyi's bail to 3.8 billion hryvnia (US$105 million).[[176]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-179)

On 8 May 2024, while still in detention pending trial for the previous charges, Kolomoyskyi was served with another notice of suspicion for allegedly ordering the contract killing of a law firm director in 2003.[[177]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-180)

On 13 February 2025, President [Volodymyr Zelenskyy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy "Volodymyr Zelenskyy") imposed sanctions on multiple oligarchs and individuals including Kolomoyskyi on suspicion of "high treason" and assisting a terrorist organization, particularly their role in compromising national security through unfavorable business agreements with Russia.[[178]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-181) The next day, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office announced the opening of criminal investigations against him and other sanctioned individuals.[[179]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-182)

On 6 August 2026, NABU and SAPO submitted an indictment to the court against Kolomoyskyi and five other individuals regarding the alleged misappropriation of more than UAH 9.2 billion from PrivatBank.[[180]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-interfax_july2026-183)[[181]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-mezha_july2026-184)

Kolomoyskyi is currently a citizen of [Israel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel "Israel").[[182]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-tdg2014-185) He also obtained Cypriot citizenship through a [golden visa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigrant_investor_programs "Immigrant investor programs"), which was revoked in 2024 after a review found that he had withheld information about his criminal charges in his application.[[183]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-186) He is married to fellow [Dnipro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnipro "Dnipro") native Iryna Mikhailivna Kolomoyska. They have a daughter, Angelika Kolomoyska, and a son, Israel Zvi Kolomoyskyi.[[184]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-187)

*   2006 – Knight of [the Order "For Merits"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Merit_(Ukraine) "Order of Merit (Ukraine)") III degree (19 August)[[185]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-188)
*   2015 – "For sacrifice and love for Ukraine", from the [UOC-KP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Orthodox_Church_%E2%80%93_Kyiv_Patriarchate "Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate") and Patriarch [Filaret](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filaret_(Denysenko) "Filaret (Denysenko)")[[186]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-189)

*   [Ukrainian oligarchs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_oligarchs "Ukrainian oligarchs")

1.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-60)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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odesa "Odesa"). In 2006, Zhukov owned a 25.88% stake in JKX Oil and Gas.[[58]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-58)[[59]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-59)
2.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-64)In 2008, Alexander Zhukov's daughter Daria Zhukova (Russian: Дарья Жукова) was [Roman Abramovich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Abramovich "Roman Abramovich")'s girlfriend.[[60]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-61)[[61]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-62)[[62]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-63)
3.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-104)Alternatively translated as "schizophrenic dwarf."[[101]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_note-103)

1.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-Rencs_1-0)["Igor Kolomoysky"](http://research.rencap.com/eng/government_ua/government_detail94.asp). _rencap.com_. [Renaissance Capital](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Capital_(Russian_company) "Renaissance Capital (Russian company)"). Retrieved 8 February 2018.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_deprecated_archival_service "Category:CS1 maint: deprecated archival service"))
2.   [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-LIGA_2-0)[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-LIGA_2-1)(in Russian)[Short bio](http://file.liga.net/person/589-igor-kolomoiskii.html), LIGA
3.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-ForbesProfile_3-0)["Forbes profile: Ihor Kolomoyskyy"](https://www.forbes.com/profile/ihor-kolomoyskyy/). _Forbes_. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
4.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-4)[Ukrainian president reshuffles Azarov's government](https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/133295.html#.UPmNTURRaJk), [Interfax-Ukraine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interfax-Ukraine "Interfax-Ukraine") (24 December 2012)
5.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-5)(in Ukrainian)[Колєсніков Дмитро Валерійович](http://da-ta.com.ua/effort_authority/1684.htm), DA-TA
6.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-6)["Ukraine governor Kolomoisky sacked after oil firm row"](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32045990). [BBC News](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_News "BBC News"). 25 March 2015.
7.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-7)[Anti-Privat Group rally under way near Naftogaz of Ukraine HQ in Kyiv](https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/282370.html), [Interfax-Ukraine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interfax-Ukraine "Interfax-Ukraine") (6 August 2015)
8.   [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-decoratex.biz_8-0)[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-decoratex.biz_8-1)[3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-decoratex.biz_8-2)["Kolomoisky Igor Valerievich: biography, personal life, career"](https://decoratex.biz/bsn/en/new-kolomojskij-igor-valerevich-biografiya-lichnaya-zhizn-karera.html). _decoratex.biz/bsn_. 31 May 2016. Retrieved 5 May 2022.
9.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-9)Klumbytė, Neringa; Sharafutdinova, Gulnaz (2013). [_Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964-1985_](https://books.google.com/books?id=HxZyQlANcDEC). Rowman & Littlefield. p.70. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier) "ISBN (identifier)")[978-0-7391-7583-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7391-7583-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-7391-7583-5").
10.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-Bloom97815013453642_10-0)[The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class](https://books.google.com/books?id=avjCDwAAQBAJ&dq=dnipropetrovsk+nationalism&pg=PA318), ed. Ian Peddie, New York / London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier) "ISBN (identifier)")[978-1-5013-4536-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-5013-4536-4 "Special:BookSources/978-1-5013-4536-4"), page 318 + 319
11.   [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-:72_11-0)[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-:72_11-1)["Ihor Kolomoisky - profiles, relations, career, biography, family"](https://en.thepage.ua/dossier/kolomoisky-ihor). _The Page_. Retrieved 5 May 2022.
12.   [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-forbes_12-0)[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-forbes_12-1)[3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-forbes_12-2)Елена Шкарпова (3 September 2012). ["Неизвестные факты из жизни Игоря Коломойского"](http://forbes.ua/magazine/forbes/1336450-neizvestnye-fakty-iz-zhizni-igorya-kolomojskogo). _Forbes_. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
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14.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-ubr_14-0)["Приват — финансово-промышленная группа компаний"](https://web.archive.org/web/20130117153029/http://bp.ubr.ua/profile/privat). _UBR_. Archived from [the original](http://bp.ubr.ua/profile/privat) on 17 January 2013. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
15.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-15)Magyar, Bálint (2019). [_Stubborn Structures: Reconceptualizing Post-Communist Regimes_](https://books.google.com/books?id=J_uZDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA234). Central European University Press. pp.234–235. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier) "ISBN (identifier)")[978-963-386-215-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-963-386-215-5 "Special:BookSources/978-963-386-215-5").
16.   [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-RFEschemesPrivatBank2_16-0)[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-RFEschemesPrivatBank2_16-1)[3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-RFEschemesPrivatBank2_16-2)[4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-RFEschemesPrivatBank2_16-3)[5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-RFEschemesPrivatBank2_16-4)["Перед націоналізацією з "ПриватБанку" вивели десятки мільярдів гривень на фірми-бульбашки: СХЕМИ"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcrVbhLDSkI)[Before nationalization, tens of billions of hryvnias were transferred from PrivatBank to bubble firms: SCHEMES]. _[Radio Free Europe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio\_Free\_Europe "Radio Free Europe")_ (in Ukrainian). 11 May 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
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18.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-18)Kroll Staff (2 April 2015). ["Project Tenor - Scoping Phase"](https://web.archive.org/web/20180516181611/http://candu.md/files/doc/Kroll_Project%20Tenor_Candu_02.04.15.pdf)(PDF). _[Kroll Inc.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kroll\_Inc. "Kroll Inc.")_ pp.74, 75. Archived from [the original](http://candu.md/files/doc/Kroll_Project%20Tenor_Candu_02.04.15.pdf)(PDF) on 16 May 2018. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
19.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-19)["Kroll_Project"](https://web.archive.org/web/20161026170508/http://candu.md/files/doc/Kroll_Project). [Andrian Candu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrian_Candu "Andrian Candu"). Archived from [the original](http://candu.md/files/doc/Kroll_Project) on 26 October 2016. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
20.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-20)["Annual Report and Consolidated Annual Report for year 2016: MANAGEMENT REPORT"](https://web.archive.org/web/20210129210501/https://gallery.privatbank.lv/PDF/Latvia/PB_2016_EN.PDF)(PDF). _AS "PrivatBank"_. Riga, Latvia. 2016. p.3. Archived from [the original](https://gallery.privatbank.lv/PDF/Latvia/PB_2016_EN.PDF)(PDF) on 29 January 2021. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
21.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-Gaurd2_21-0)[Three's a crowd for Dynamo and Shakhtar](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/aug/28/europeanfootball.dniprodnipropetrovsk), _[The Guardian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Guardian "The Guardian")_ (28 August 2007)
22.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-22)["AeroSvit files for bankruptcy"](https://www.aviationnews-online.com/airline/aerosvit-files-for-bankruptcy-2/). _Aviation News_. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
23.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-23)["Ukraine's Dniproavia out of business – Russian aviation news"](http://www.rusaviainsider.com/ukraines-dniproavia-business/). _Russian Aviation Insider_. 28 November 2017. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
24.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-zaitsev2_24-0)Zaitsev, Tom (12 February 2010). ["Three Ukrainian carriers seek tie-up approval"](http://beta.flightglobal.com/news/articles/three-ukrainian-carriers-seek-tie-up-approval-338364/). _Flightglobal_. Reed Elsevier. Retrieved 22 July 2011.[_[permanent dead link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link\_rot "Wikipedia:Link rot")_]
25.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-reuters0707112_25-0)Fraende, Metet (7 July 2011). ["Cimber Sterling gets 165 mln DKK lifeline"](https://www.reuters.com/article/cimbersterling-mansvell-idUSLDE6BL15L20110707). Reuters. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
26.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-natcio3_26-0)Mislav Šimatović (25 September 2007). ["100 richest Eastern Europeans"](https://web.archive.org/web/20090405150900/http://www.nacional.hr/en/clanak/38281/100-richest-eastern-europeans). [Nacional](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacional_(weekly) "Nacional (weekly)"). Archived from [the original](http://www.nacional.hr/en/clanak/38281/100-richest-eastern-europeans) on 5 April 2009. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
27.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-Kpost2_27-0)[Ihor Kolomoysky](https://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/29135/), [Kyiv Post](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv_Post "Kyiv Post") (18 June 2008), archived[[link removed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ATODAY "Wikipedia:ATODAY")]
28.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-28)["Ihor Kolomoysky - Jun. 18, 2008"](https://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/ukraine-politics/ihor-kolomoysky-29135.html). _KyivPost_. 18 June 2008. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
29.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-29)["Ігор Коломойський розвиватиме Central European Media Enterprises в Центральній і Східній Європі"](https://web.archive.org/web/20141129063610/http://www.newsru.ua/finance/03sep2007/media.html)[Igor Kolomoisky will develop Central European Media Enterprises in Central and Eastern Europe]. _newsru.ua_ (in Ukrainian). 3 September 2007. Archived from [the original](http://www.newsru.ua/finance/03sep2007/media.html) on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
30.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-30)["1+1 Media"](https://ukraine.mom-rsf.org/en/owners/companies/detail/company/company/show/1-1-media/). _ukraine.mom-rsf.org_. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
31.   [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-economist-201503283_31-0)[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-economist-201503283_31-1)[3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-economist-201503283_31-2)[4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-economist-201503283_31-3)["President v oligarch"](https://www.economist.com/news/europe/21647355-building-nation-means-putting-plutocrats-their-place-president-v-oligarch). _The Economist_. 28 March 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
32.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-32)["Третьяков продал Коломойскому "Главред" за $4 млн"](https://web.archive.org/web/20250421215917/https://gazeta.ua/ru/articles/economics/_tretyakov-prodal-kolomojskomu-quotglavredquot-za-4-mln/326845)[Tretyakov sold Glavred to Kolomoisky for $4 million]. _[Gazeta.ua](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazeta.ua "Gazeta.ua")_ (in Russian). 11 February 2010. Archived from [the original](https://gazeta.ua/ru/articles/economics/_tretyakov-prodal-kolomojskomu-quotglavredquot-za-4-mln/326845) on 21 April 2025. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
33.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-33)Higgins, Andrew (3 November 2019). ["A Disgraced Ukrainian Oligarch's Bizarre Ski Resort Plan"](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/03/world/europe/ukraine-kolomoisky-zelensky-ski-resort.html). _The New York Times_. [ISSN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN_(identifier) "ISSN (identifier)")[0362-4331](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0362-4331). Retrieved 9 December 2019.
34.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-34)[50 richest Ukrainians](http://en.for-ua.com/blog/2007/05/29/124040.html)[Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20110711020344/http://en.for-ua.com/blog/2007/05/29/124040.html) 11 July 2011 at the [Wayback Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine "Wayback Machine"), ForUm (29 May 2007)
35.   [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-2010ealrth2_35-0)[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-2010ealrth2_35-1)[3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-2010ealrth2_35-2)[4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-2010ealrth2_35-3)[#2 Richest: Ihor Kolomoisky, 47](http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/93080/), [Kyiv Post](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv_Post "Kyiv Post") (17 December 2010)
36.   [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-ForbesLOB2012KP22_36-0)[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-ForbesLOB2012KP22_36-1)[Eight Ukrainians make Forbes magazine's list of world billionaires](http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/123875/), [Kyiv Post](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv_Post "Kyiv Post") (8 March 2012)
37.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-Rich_Man_In_A_Poor_Country22_37-0)[Rich Man In A Poor Country](http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/93082/), [Kyiv Post](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv_Post "Kyiv Post") (17 December 2010)
38.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-38)["100 самых влиятельных украинцев"](https://focus.ua/rating/430859-100_samykh_vliiatelnykh_ukraintsev-reiting-2019). [Focus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_(Ukrainian_magazine) "Focus (Ukrainian magazine)"). 23 December 2019.
39.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-39)[Akhmetov joins Ukraine oligarchs in pledging to protect homeland](https://www.ft.com/content/a99fc964-a189-11e3-a29e-00144feab7de) – _Financial Times_, 2 March 2014
40.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-40)["Leaders of UJCU"](https://jew.org.ua/eng/leaders). _jew.org.ua_ (in Russian). Retrieved 25 July 2022.
41.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-41)Runyan, Tamar (17 October 2012). ["World's Largest Jewish Center Opens in Dnepropetrovsk"](https://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/1991671/jewish/Largest-Jewish-Center-Opens.htm). _Chabad.Org_.
42.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-42)Ishchenko, Olena (27 January 2022). ["The Revival of the Dnipropetrovsk and Dnipro Jewish Community in Ukraine"](https://www.e-ir.info/2022/01/27/the-revival-of-the-dnipropetrovsk-and-dnipro-jewish-community-in-ukraine/). _E-International Relations_. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
43.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-jta_43-0)Cnaan Liphshiz (October 1, 2014). [""Giant Ukraine JCC provides shelter from the storm — in style""](https://www.jta.org/2014/10/01/news-opinion/world/giant-ukraine-jcc-provides-shelter-from-the-storm-in-style). Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved December 1, 2016.
44.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-jewj_44-0)Ian Shulman (January 15, 2013). ["World's biggest Jewish community center opens in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine"](https://web.archive.org/web/20130305112604/http://jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/worlds_biggest_jewish_community_center_opens_in_dnipropetrovsk_ukraine). Jewish Journal. Archived from [the original](http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/worlds_biggest_jewish_community_center_opens_in_dnipropetrovsk_ukraine) on March 5, 2013. Retrieved December 1, 2016.
45.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-jpost_45-0)Chaim Chesler (October 22, 2012). [""The Menorah Center: Largest Jewish complex in world""](https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/The-Menorah-Center-Largest-Jewish-complex-in-world). Jerusalem Post. Retrieved December 1, 2016.
46.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-46)Liphshiz, Cnaan (28 July 2022). ["Zelensky said to strip 3 Jewish oligarchs of citizenship; all hold Israeli passports"](https://www.timesofisrael.com/zelensky-reportedly-strips-3-jewish-oligarchs-of-ukrainian-citizenship/). _[The Times of Israel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Times\_of\_Israel "The Times of Israel")_. [ISSN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN_(identifier) "ISSN (identifier)")[0040-7909](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0040-7909). Retrieved 28 July 2022.
47.   [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-:9_47-0)[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-:9_47-1)[3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-:9_47-2)[4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-:9_47-3)Marlowe, Lara (22 July 2022). ["'I think in Russian. I speak in Russian...But we are all Ukrainian now'"](https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2022/07/22/i-think-in-russian-i-speak-in-russianbut-we-are-all-ukrainian-now/). _The Irish Times_. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
48.   [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-jweek2_48-0)[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-jweek2_48-1)[European Jewish Parliament off to a semi-comedic start](http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/63331/european-jewish-parliament-off-to-a-semi-comedic-start/) – JWeekly, 3 November 2011
49.   [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-kyiv2_49-0)[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-kyiv2_49-1)[#2 Richest: Ihor Kolomoisky](http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/2-richest-ihor-kolomoisky-47-93080.html) – Kyiv Post, 17 December 2010
50.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-jpost2_50-0)[A necessary putsch?](https://www.jpost.com/Features/Front-Lines/A-necessary-putsch) – Jerusalem Post, 29 October 2010
51.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-51)[Like NBA's Nets, European Jewish group gets an oligarch, but some see Soviet-style takeover](https://www.jta.org/2010/11/02/news-opinion/world/like-nbas-nets-european-jewish-group-gets-an-oligarch-but-some-see-soviet-style-takeover) – [JTA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Telegraphic_Agency "Jewish Telegraphic Agency"), 2 November 2010
52.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-52)["He can't run for Euro Jewish Parliament — he's dead"](https://www.thejc.com/news/world/he-cant-run-for-euro-jewish-parliament-hes-dead-mk48o2af). _The Jewish Chronicle_. 27 October 2011. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
53.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-INN_53-0)Ben Gedalyahu, Tzvi (26 October 2011). ["First Election for European Jewish Parliament"](https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149093). _IsraelNationalNews.com_.
54.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-EJP_54-0)["First ever 120-member European Jewish Parliament inaugurated in Brussels, event hailed as 'great day for Jews in Europe'"](https://web.archive.org/web/20120220230627/http://www.ejpress.org/article/56239). _Europeanjewishpress_. 16 February 2012. Archived from [the original](http://ejpress.org/article/56239) on 20 February 2012.
55.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-JTA_55-0)Axelrod, Toby (24 October 2011). ["Sacha Baron Cohen a Jewish parliamentarian? One reason to doubt new Euro Jewish parliament"](https://web.archive.org/web/20111228113104/http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/10/24/3089934/sacha-baron-cohen-a-jewish-parliamentarian-one-reason-to-doubt-new-euro-jewish-parliament). _JTA_. Archived from [the original](https://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/10/24/3089934/sacha-baron-cohen-a-jewish-parliamentarian-one-reason-to-doubt-new-euro-jewish-parliament/) on 28 December 2011. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
56.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-56)["Members Archive"](https://ejp.eu/members/). _European Jewish Parliament_. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
57.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-57)Axelrod, Toby (14 February 2012). ["New European Jewish parliament riles existing European Jewish leaders"](https://www.jta.org/2012/02/14/global/new-european-jewish-parliament-riles-existing-european-jewish-leaders). _Jewish Telegraphic Agency_. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
58.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-58)Roman Shleinov (21 August 2006). ["Самых богатых готовят на газе: Что общего между офшорным фондом на Виргинских островах, "Росукрэнерго", "Газпромом" и российским правительством"](https://web.archive.org/web/20070222140755/https://2006.novayagazeta.ru/nomer/2006/63n/n63n-s13.shtml)[The richest are cooked on gas: What do the offshore fund in the Virgin Islands, Rosukrenergo, Gazprom and the Russian government have in common?]. _[Novaya Gazeta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novaya\_Gazeta "Novaya Gazeta")_ (in Russian). Archived from [the original](https://2006.novayagazeta.ru/nomer/2006/63n/n63n-s13.shtml) on 22 February 2007. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
59.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-59)Roman Shleinov (15 May 2008). ["Кадры-2008. Мелькают все. Нефтетрейдеры протоптали тропинку в президентскую администрацию?"](https://web.archive.org/web/20080519201933/https://novayagazeta.ru/data/2008/34/05.html)[Personnel-2008. Everybody flashes. Oil traders trod a path to the presidential administration?]. _[Novaya Gazeta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novaya\_Gazeta "Novaya Gazeta")_ (in Russian). Archived from [the original](https://novayagazeta.ru/data/2008/34/05.html) on 19 May 2008. Retrieved 22 January 2021. 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).
60.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-61)Dmitry Bykov (1 February 2008). ["ХУДАША"](https://web.archive.org/web/20080211115824/http://www.kariera.idr.ru/items/?item=1672)[Skinny]. _[«Карьера»](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8C%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%20(%D0%B6%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB) "ru:Карьера (журнал)") ("Career")_ (in Russian). Archived from [the original](http://www.kariera.idr.ru/items/?item=1672) on 11 February 2008. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
61.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-62)Dmitry Bykov (1 February 2008). ["Карьера "девушки Абрамовича" Даша Жукова: "Многие думают, что я все получила на блюдечке, и только я знаю, какого труда мне все это стоило""](https://web.archive.org/web/20080211115824/http://www.kariera.idr.ru/items/?item=1672)[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"]. _[«Карьера»](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8C%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%20(%D0%B6%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB) "ru:Карьера (журнал)") ("Career")_ (in Russian). Archived from [the original](http://www.kariera.idr.ru/items/?item=1672) on 11 February 2008. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
62.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-63)[Alt URL](http://www.compromat.ru/page_22271.htm)
63.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-65)["Raiders from the east: The oligarchs who won their case but took a battering"](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). _[The Independent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Independent "The Independent")_. 11 September 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2023.`{{cite news}}`: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_deprecated_archival_service "Category:CS1 maint: deprecated archival service"))
64.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-telegraph-201512042_66-0)David Barrett (4 December 2015). ["Ukrainian oligarchs clash in court over $2bn business deal amid claims of murder and bribery"](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). _Daily Telegraph_. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
65.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-67)Armitage, Jim (13 March 2015). ["Oligarchs at war: Claims of murder among Ukrainian billionaires in High Court case"](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/oligarchs-at-war-claims-of-murder-among-ukrainian-billionaires-in-high-court-case-10107612.html). _The Independent_. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
66.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-guardian-201601222_68-0)Owen Bowcott, Shaun Walker (22 January 2016). ["Ukrainian oligarchs settle mine dispute worth billions out of court"](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/22/ukrainian-oligarchs-settle-mine-dispute-worth-billions-out-of-court). _The Guardian_. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
67.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-69)["Expert says Ukrainian tycoon closing TV channel signals his intention to leave country"](https://tass.com/world/865933). _tass.com_. 30 March 2016. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
68.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-70)[""Вы попали в штангу" - ukrainian sports portal"](https://football.ua/ownshirt/events/176015-vy-popaly-v-shtangu.html). _football.ua_. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
69.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-71)["FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk - history of the Ukrainian club"](https://www.footballhistory.org/club/dnipro-dnipropetrovsk.html). _www.footballhistory.org_. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
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71.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-73)["Bank of Italy to close AS PrivatBank branch over money-laundering breaches"](https://www.reuters.com/article/bank-of-italy-as-privatbank-idUSL8N1AQ32G). _Reuters_. 9 August 2016. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
72.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-74)["Oligarchs Weaponized Cyprus Branch of Ukraine's Largest Bank to Send $5.5 Billion Abroad"](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). _[OCCRP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCCRP "OCCRP")_. 24 March 2022. Archived from [the original](https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/oligarchs-weaponized-cyprus-eranch-of-ukraines-largest-bank-to-send-5-billion-abroad) on 24 March 2022. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
73.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-75)["Ukrainas valdība nacionalizējusi "PrivatBank""](https://web.archive.org/web/20171223060659/https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas/ekonomika/ukrainas-valdiba-nacionalizejusi-privatbank.a215258/)[Ukrainian government has nationalized «PrivatBank»]. _[Public Broadcasting of Latvia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public\_Broadcasting\_of\_Latvia "Public Broadcasting of Latvia") (LSM.lv)_ (in Latvian). [Reuters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters "Reuters"). 19 December 2016. Archived from [the original](https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas/ekonomika/ukrainas-valdiba-nacionalizejusi-privatbank.a215258/) on 23 December 2017. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
74.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-76)[""ПРИВАТБАНК" Про банк» Правління та корпоративна структура» Структура власності"](https://web.archive.org/web/20141111045627/https://privatbank.ua/ua/about/management/ownership/)["PrivatBank" About the bank» Board and corporate structure» Ownership structure]. _[PrivatBank](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrivatBank "PrivatBank")_ (in Ukrainian). Archived from [the original](https://privatbank.ua/ua/about/management/ownership/) on 11 November 2014. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
75.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-77)["London High Court throws out PrivatBank claim against Kolomoisky"](https://www.fieldfisher.com/en/insights/london-high-court-throws-out-privatbank-claim-against-kolomoisky). _Fieldfisher_. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
76.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-78)["UK's Supreme Court confirms PrivatBank claim to be heard in London"](https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-ukraine-privatbank-idUKKBN21P2JQ). _Reuters_. 7 April 2020. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
77.   [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-auto2_79-0)[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-auto2_79-1)["Ukraine tycoon crows 'I won' after PrivatBank nationalization ruled..."](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-privatbank-idUSKCN1RU1KY)_Reuters_. 18 April 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
78.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-80)["Ukraine court says PrivatBank nationalisation violated the law"](https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-privatbank-idUSS8N1YI026). _Reuters_. 18 April 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
79.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-81)Seddon, Max (17 July 2019). ["The bank that holds the key to Ukraine's future"](https://www.ft.com/content/7dd9c784-a3e1-11e9-a282-2df48f366f7d). _Financial Times_. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
80.   [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-Politico171020212_82-0)[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-Politico171020212_82-1)[3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-Politico171020212_82-2)Michel, Casey (17 October 2021). ["A Ukrainian Oligarch Bought a Midwestern Factory and Let it Rot. What Was Really Going On?"](https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/10/17/ukrainian-oligarch-midwestern-factory-town-dirty-money-american-heartland-michel-kleptocracy-515948). _POLITICO_. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
81.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-83)["Kolomoisky's Billion Dollar Friends: Before nationalization Ihor Kolomoisky's PrivatBank lent over a billion dollars to companies belonging to his top lieutenants and two of their subordinates. Here's how much they received"](https://web.archive.org/web/20170606101343im_/https://strana.ua/pub/a/9/5/9537f80682731633f7951fe896326843.png). _[СТРАНА.ua](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strana.ua "Strana.ua")_. 6 June 2017. Archived from [the original](https://strana.ua/pub/a/9/5/9537f80682731633f7951fe896326843.png) on 6 June 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
82.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-84)["NBU Welcomes Court Decision Reaffirming the Legality of Agreement on Purchase of PrivatBank's Shares"](https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vitaye-rishennya-sudu-yakim-pidtverdjena-zakonnist-dogovoriv-kupivli-prodaju-aktsiy-privatbanku). _National Bank of Ukraine_. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
83.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-85)["Supreme Court Sustained NBU Inspection of PrivatBank in October 2016"](https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/verhovniy-sud-pidtverdiv-zakonnist-diy-natsionalnogo-banku-pid-chas-provedennya-inspektsiynoyi-perevirki-privatbanku-u-jovtni-2016-roku). _National Bank of Ukraine_. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
84.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-86)["Коломойскому не вернут Приватбанк: решение Верховного суда"](https://epravda.com.ua/rus/video/kolomoyskomu-ne-vernut-privatbank-800057/).
85.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-87)Chakraborty, Barnini (8 April 2019). ["FBI investigating Ukrainian oligarch Kolomoisky over alleged financial crimes: reports"](https://www.foxnews.com/world/fbi-investigating-ukrainian-oligarch-kolomoisky-over-alleged-financial-crimes-reports). _[Fox News](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox\_News "Fox News")_. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
86.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-88)Kovensky, Josh; Vikhrov, Natalie (2 March 2017). ["The spectacular rise and fall of Ihor Kolomoisky's steel empire"](https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/spectacular-rise-fall-ihor-kolomoiskys-steel-empire.html). _[Kyiv Post](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv\_Post "Kyiv Post")_. Retrieved 23 January 2021.`{{cite news}}`: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_deprecated_archival_service "Category:CS1 maint: deprecated archival service"))
87.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-89)Swan, Betsy (8 April 2019). ["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"](https://www.thedailybeast.com/billionaire-ukrainian-oligarch-ihor-kolomoisky-under-investigation-by-fbi). _[The Daily Beast](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Daily\_Beast "The Daily Beast")_. Retrieved 23 January 2021.`{{cite news}}`: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_deprecated_archival_service "Category:CS1 maint: deprecated archival service"))
88.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-90)["Justice Department Seeks Forfeiture of Two Commercial Properties Purchased with Funds Misappropriated from PrivatBank in Ukraine"](https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-seeks-forfeiture-two-commercial-properties-purchased-funds-misappropriated). _www.justice.gov_. 6 August 2020. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
89.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-91)Woo-Sung, Shim (23 October 2021). ["'Pandora Papers' show corruption, money laundering behind the former Motorola property in Harvard"](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/). _Lake McHenry Scanner_. Archived from [the original](https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2021/10/23/pandora-papers-show-corruption-money-laundering-behind-the-former-motorola-property-in-harvard/) on 23 March 2022. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
90.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-92)["Privat Ponzie"](https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1302001/download). _[Department of Justice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department\_of\_Justice "Department of Justice"): Southern District of Florida_. 6 August 2020. pp.6, 12 and 18. Retrieved 23 March 2022. 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.
91.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-usds2_93-0)["Public Designation of Oligarch and Former Ukrainian Public Official Ihor Kolomoyskyy Due to Involvement in Significant Corruption"](https://www.state.gov/public-designation-of-oligarch-and-former-ukrainian-public-official-ihor-kolomoyskyy-due-to-involvement-in-significant-corruption/). _United States Department of State_. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
92.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-94)["Influential oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky charged with fraud, money laundering — NV source"](https://english.nv.ua/nation/oligarch-ihor-kolomoisky-charged-with-fraud-money-laundering-50350784.html). _nv.ua_. 2 September 2023.
93.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-95)["Public Designation of Oligarch and Former Ukrainian Public Official Ihor Kolomoyskyy Due to Involvement in Significant Corruption"](https://www.state.gov/public-designation-of-oligarch-and-former-ukrainian-public-official-ihor-kolomoyskyy-due-to-involvement-in-significant-corruption/). _www.state.gov_.
94.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-96)["U.S. Blacklists Ukraine's Kolomoisky over alleged corruption"](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-ukraine-idUSKBN2AX1MC). Reuters. 5 March 2021.
95.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-97)["United States Files Civil Forfeiture Complaint for Proceeds of Alleged Fraud and Theft from PrivatBank in Ukraine"](https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-files-civil-forfeiture-complaint-proceeds-alleged-fraud-and-theft-privatbank). _US Department of Justice_ (Press release). 20 January 2022. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
96.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-98)["US Brings New Charges Against Kolomoisky"](https://www.kyivpost.com/business/us-brings-new-charges-against-kolomoisky.html). _KyivPost_. 31 January 2022. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
97.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-natcio32_99-0)Mislav Šimatović (25 September 2007). ["100 richest Eastern Europeans"](https://web.archive.org/web/20090405150900/http://www.nacional.hr/en/clanak/38281/100-richest-eastern-europeans). [Nacional](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacional_(weekly) "Nacional (weekly)"). Archived from [the original](http://www.nacional.hr/en/clanak/38281/100-richest-eastern-europeans) on 5 April 2009. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
98.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-CESOlsza%C5%84skiUKel1222_100-0)[After the parliamentary elections in Ukraine: a tough victory for the Party of Regions](http://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/eastweek/2012-11-07/after-parliamentary-elections-ukraine-a-tough-victory-party-regions)[Archived](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) 17 March 2013 at the [Wayback Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine "Wayback Machine"), [Centre for Eastern Studies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Eastern_Studies "Centre for Eastern Studies") (7 November 2012)
99.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-101)[Klitschko: UDAR's election campaign to cost Hr 90 million](https://www.kyivpost.com/content/politics/klitschko-udars-election-campaign-to-cost-hr-90-million-312994.html), [Kyiv Post](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv_Post "Kyiv Post") (15 September 2012)
100.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-102)Kramer, Andrew E. (2 March 2014). ["Ukraine Turns to Its Oligarchs for Political Help"](https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/03/world/europe/ukraine-turns-to-its-oligarchs-for-political-help.html). _The New York Times_. [ISSN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN_(identifier) "ISSN (identifier)")[0362-4331](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0362-4331). Retrieved 25 September 2022.
101.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-103)Maheshwari, Vijai (17 April 2019). ["The comedian and the oligarch"](https://www.politico.eu/article/volodomyr-zelenskiy-ihor-kolomoisky-the-comedian-and-the-oligarch-ukraine-presidential-election/). _[Politico](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico "Politico")_. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
102.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-105)Olearchyk, Roman (3 March 2014). ["Ukraine oligarch: Putin is a "schizophrenic of short stature""](https://www.ft.com/content/d2609f36-f8ce-3dd9-9c8b-8682710bfc13). _[Financial Times](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial\_Times "Financial Times")_. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
103.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-BVKolG2_106-0)Bershidsky, Leonid (4 March 2014). ["Putin Gets Personal in Ukraine"](http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-03-04/putin-gets-personal-in-ukraine). [Bloomberg View](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_View "Bloomberg View").
104.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-107)["Vladimir Putin – Press conference on the situation in Ukraine"](https://genius.com/Vladimir-putin-press-conference-on-the-situation-in-ukraine-annotated/). _Genius_. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
105.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-108)["Коломойский: "Сепаратизм на Востоке и Юге Украины не пройдет. Мы не дадим расколоть страну!""](https://censor.net.ua/news/272122/kolomoyiskiyi_separatizm_na_vostoke_i_yuge_ukrainy_ne_proyidet_my_ne_dadim_raskolot_stranu). _Цензор.НЕТ_. 22 February 2014. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
106.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-109)["Коломойский предупредил Кернеса, что сепаратизм не пройдет"](https://www.vaadua.org/news/kolomoyskiy-predupredil-kernesa-chto-separatizm-ne-proydet). _Ассоциация еврейских организаций и общин Украины (Ваад)_. 22 February 2014. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
107.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-110)[Ukrainian oligarch offers bounty for capture of Russian 'saboteurs'](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/17/ukrainian-oligarch-offers-financial-rewards-russians-igor-kolomoisky) – The Guardian, 18 April 2014
108.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-111)["Коломойський вже виплатив 80 тис доларів за затриманих сепаратистів"](https://24tv.ua/news/showNews.do?kolomoyskiy_vzhe_viplativ_80_tis_dolariv_za_zatrimanih_separatistiv&objectId=435069). _24 Канал_. 22 April 2014. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
109.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-112)["Коломойський оголосив винагороду за Царьова у півмільйона доларів"](https://www.5.ua/polityka/kolomoiskyi-oholosyv-vynahorodu-za-tsarova-u-pivmiliona-dolariv-32869.html). _5 канал_. 3 June 2014. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
110.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-113)Pfeffer, Anshel (18 October 2014). ["Is This Man the Most Powerful Jew in the World?"](https://www.haaretz.com/2014-10-18/ty-article/.premium/the-most-powerful-jew-in-the-world/0000017f-ea28-d639-af7f-ebffe41b0000). _Haaretz_. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
111.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-enjoys_strong_support_from_the_local_population2_114-0)[The Town Determined to Stop Putin](https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/12/dnipropetrovsk-the-ukrainian-town-determined-to-stop-putin.html), [The Daily Beast](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Beast "The Daily Beast") (12 June 2014)
112.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-WSJ27142_115-0)["Ukraine's Secret Weapon: Feisty Oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky"](https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraines-secret-weapon-feisty-oligarch-ihor-kolomoisky-1403886665). _[The Wall Street Journal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Wall\_Street\_Journal "The Wall Street Journal")_. 27 June 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2023.`{{cite news}}`: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_deprecated_archival_service "Category:CS1 maint: deprecated archival service"))
113.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-nw-201409102_116-0)Damien Sharkov (10 September 2014). ["Ukrainian Nationalist Volunteers Committing 'ISIS-Style' War Crimes"](https://www.newsweek.com/evidence-war-crimes-committed-ukrainian-nationalist-volunteers-grows-269604). _Newsweek_. Retrieved 28 March 2015.`{{cite news}}`: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_deprecated_archival_service "Category:CS1 maint: deprecated archival service"))
114.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-117)["In the battle between Ukraine and Russian separatists, shady private armies take the field"](https://www.reuters.com/article/idUS60927080220150505). _Reuters_. 5 May 2015 – via www.reuters.com.
115.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-118)[Kolomoyskyi's assets to be nationalized in Crimea – Sergey Aksyonov](http://www.ceeinsight.net/2014/09/05/kolomoyskyis-assets-nationalized-crimea-sergey-aksyonov/)[Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20160308072234/http://www.ceeinsight.net/2014/09/05/kolomoyskyis-assets-nationalized-crimea-sergey-aksyonov/) 8 March 2016 at the [Wayback Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine "Wayback Machine"), CEE INSIGHT (5 September 2014)
116.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-119)[Ukrainian tycoon's estate in Crimea sold for $18 mln](http://tass.ru/en/economy/854261)[Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20190401003348/http://tass.ru/en/economy/854261) 1 April 2019 at the [Wayback Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine "Wayback Machine"), [Russian News Agency TASS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_News_Agency_TASS "Russian News Agency TASS") (3 February 2016)
117.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-reuters-201601062_120-0)Thomas Escritt (6 January 2016). ["UPDATE 1-Ukrainian businessman sues over annexed Crimea airport"](https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-russia-arbitration-idUSL8N14Q2N820160106). Reuters. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
118.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-mt-201409032_121-0)["Crimea Nationalizes Assets of Pro-Kiev Ukrainian Billionaire"](http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/crimea-nationalizes-assets-of-pro-kiev-ukrainian-billionaire/506364.html). _Moscow Times_. 3 September 2014. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
119.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-122)[UPDATE 1-Ukrainian businessman sues over annexed Crimea airport](https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-russia-arbitration-idUSL8N14Q2N820160106), [Reuters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters "Reuters") (6 January 2016)
120.   [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-:0_123-0)[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-:0_123-1)["Moscow Court Sanctions Arrest of Ukraine Tycoon Governor Kolomoisky"](http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/moscow-court-sanctions-arrest-of-ukraine-tycoon-governor-kolomoisky/502854.html). _themoscowtimes.com_. 2 July 2014. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
121.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-jewishbusinessnews-201601082_124-0)["Russia Opens Criminal Case Against Igor Kolomoisky"](http://jewishbusinessnews.com/2016/01/08/russia-opens-criminal-case-against-igor-kolomoisky/). _Jewish Business News_. 8 January 2016. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
122.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-125)["Is This Man the Most Powerful Jew in the World?"](https://www.haaretz.com/2014-10-18/ty-article/.premium/the-most-powerful-jew-in-the-world/0000017f-ea28-d639-af7f-ebffe41b0000). _Haaretz_.
123.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-126)["President signed a Decree on dismissal of Ihor Kolomoyskyi from the post of Dnipropetrovsk RSA Head"](https://web.archive.org/web/20150327222425/http://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/32541.html). _Official web-site of President of Ukraine_. Press office of President of Ukraine. Archived from [the original](http://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/32541.html) on 27 March 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
124.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-127)[Ukraine arrests two top officials at cabinet meeting](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32051743), [BBC News](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_News "BBC News") (25 March 2015)
125.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-128)["Kolomoisky speaks of his inner tug of war and patriots from the Opposition Bloc"](https://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/ukraine-politics/kolomoisky-speaks-of-his-inner-tug-of-war-and-patriots-from-the-opposition-bloc-384757.html). _KyivPost_. 29 March 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
126.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-129)Bershidsky, Leonid (20 March 2015). ["Ukraine's Oligarchs Are at War (Again)"](http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-20/ukraine-s-oligarchs-are-at-war-again-). [Bloomberg News](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_News "Bloomberg News").
127.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-130)["Star Wars in Ukraine: Poroshenko vs Kolomoisky"](https://www.politico.eu/article/star-wars-in-ukraine-poroshenko-vs-kolomoisky/). _POLITICO_. 21 December 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
128.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-131)["Star Wars in Ukraine: Poroshenko vs Kolomoisky"](https://www.politico.eu/article/star-wars-in-ukraine-poroshenko-vs-kolomoisky/). _POLITICO_. 21 December 2015. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
129.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-132)Горбань, Аліна (5 April 2022). ["В університеті у Дніпрі розпочали тренінг домедичної підготовки"](https://suspilne.media/225425-u-dnipropetrovskomu-universiteti-rozpocali-trening-domedicnoi-dopomogi-v-umovah-vijni/?). _Suspilne_ (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 April 2022.
130.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-SPppno31217bb_133-0)["Lawyer Zelenskyy has registered a new political party "Servant of the People""](https://www.unian.ua/m/politics/2276034-yurist-zelenskogo-zareestruvav-novu-politichnu-partiyu-sluga-narodu.html). _[UNIAN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian\_Independent\_Information\_Agency "Ukrainian Independent Information Agency")_ (in Ukrainian). 3 December 2017. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20220118204157/https://www.unian.ua/politics/2276034-yurist-zelenskogo-zareestruvav-novu-politichnu-partiyu-sluga-narodu.html) from the original on 18 January 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
131.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-up7196270Z_134-0)["The boundary of a joke. How Zelensky prepares for the election"](https://web.archive.org/web/20190208184955/https://www.pravda.com.ua/articles/2018/10/25/7196270/). _[Ukrainska Pravda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainska\_Pravda "Ukrainska Pravda")_ (in Ukrainian). 25 October 2018. Archived from [the original](https://www.pravda.com.ua/articles/2018/10/25/7196270/) on 8 February 2019.
132.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-135)["Comedian Zelensky leads after first round of Ukrainian election, exit poll shows"](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-election-news-zelenskiy-first-round-polls-poroshenko-tymoshenko-latest-a8847951.html). _The Independent_. 31 March 2019. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
133.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-136)["Ukraine election: Comedian Zelensky wins presidency by landslide"](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48007487). _[BBC News](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC\_News "BBC News")_. 22 April 2019. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20190421173305/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48007487) from the original on 21 April 2019.
134.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-137)["Election of President of Ukraine 2019 Repeat voting"](https://web.archive.org/web/20210813163554/https://ukr.vote/en/elections/7/ukraine). _UKR.VOTE_. Archived from [the original](https://ukr.vote/en/elections/7/ukraine) on 13 August 2021.
135.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-138)Williams, Matthias; Zinets, Natalie (1 April 2019). ["Comedian faces scrutiny over oligarch ties in Ukraine presidential race"](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-election-zelenskiy-oligarch-idUSKCN1RD30L). _Reuters_. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
136.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-139)Clark, David (10 July 2021). ["Will Zelenskyy target all Ukrainian oligarchs equally?"](https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/will-zelenskyy-target-all-ukrainian-oligarchs-equally/). _Atlantic Council_. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
137.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-140)Maheshwari, Vijai (17 April 2019). ["The comedian and the oligarch"](https://www.politico.eu/article/volodomyr-zelenskiy-ihor-kolomoisky-the-comedian-and-the-oligarch-ukraine-presidential-election/). _POLITICO_. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
138.   [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-:2_141-0)[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-:2_141-1)[3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-:2_141-2)[4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-:2_141-3)Romaniuk, Novel; Kravets, Novel (27 January 2022). ["Подвійне життя Коломойського. Як олігарх "пішов" з політики, але допомагає Зеленському"](https://www.pravda.com.ua/articles/2022/01/27/7321830/). _Українська правда_ (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 May 2022.
139.   [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-:1_142-0)[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-:1_142-1)Michel, Casey (13 March 2022). ["Who is Ihor Kolomoisky?"](https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/who-is-ihor-kolomoisky-). _The Spectator_. Retrieved 5 May 2022.
140.   [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-:6_143-0)[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-:6_143-1)[3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-:6_143-2)Kossov, Igor (23 July 2022). ["Rumors of Zelensky stripping top oligarch Kolomoisky's citizenship gain ground"](https://kyivindependent.com/national/rumors-of-zelensky-stripping-top-oligarch-kolomoiskys-citizenship-gain-ground). _The Kyiv Independent_. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
141.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-:7_144-0)["Ihor Kolomoisky - profiles, relations, career, biography, family"](https://en.thepage.ua/dossier/kolomoisky-ihor). _The Page_. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 5 May 2022.
142.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-Dubinsk11305589_145-0)[MP Dubinsky expelled from Servant of the People faction](https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3182465-mp-dubinsky-expelled-from-servant-of-the-people-faction.html), [Ukrinform](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrinform "Ukrinform") (2 February 2021)[Ruling faction in Ukraine's Parliament expels MP Dubinsky](https://www.unian.info/politics/dubinsky-mp-expelled-from-ruling-faction-11305589.html), [UNIAN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIAN "UNIAN") (1 February 2021) (in Ukrainian)[Dubinsky was expelled from the "Servant of the People" faction](https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2021/02/1/7281952/), [Ukrainska Pravda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainska_Pravda "Ukrainska Pravda") (1 February 2021)
143.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-dubinsky3173883prosecutor_146-0)[Prosecutor General's Office opens proceedings against MP Dubinsky](https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3173883-prosecutor-generals-office-opens-proceedings-against-mp-dubinsky.html), [Ukrinform](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrinform "Ukrinform") (19 January 2021)
144.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-147)Liphshiz, Cnaan (21 April 2022). ["Ukraine adds local Jewish leader to list of pro-Russian 'traitors'"](https://www.timesofisrael.com/ukraine-adds-local-jewish-leader-to-list-of-pro-russian-traitors/). _[The Times of Israel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Times\_of\_Israel "The Times of Israel")_. [ISSN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN_(identifier) "ISSN (identifier)")[0040-7909](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0040-7909). Retrieved 25 July 2022.
145.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-148)["Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky: The comedian president who is rising to the moment"](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59667938). _BBC News_. 26 February 2022. Retrieved 5 May 2022.
146.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-149)Dickinson, Peter (9 March 2021). ["US sanctions Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky"](https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/us-sanctions-ukrainian-oligarch-ihor-kolomoisky/). _Atlantic Council_. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
147.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-PandoraZelensky_150-0)[Pandora Papers Reveal Offshore Holdings of Ukrainian President and his Inner Circle](https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pandora-papers/pandora-papers-reveal-offshore-holdings-of-ukrainian-president-and-his-inner-circle)[Archived](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) 9 October 2021 at the [Wayback Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine "Wayback Machine"), [Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organized_Crime_and_Corruption_Reporting_Project "Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project") (3 October 2021) ["Revealed: 'anti-oligarch' Ukrainian president's offshore connections"](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/03/revealed-anti-oligarch-ukrainian-president-offshore-connections-volodymyr-zelenskiy). _[The Guardian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Guardian "The Guardian")_. 3 October 2021. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20211003165731/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/03/revealed-anti-oligarch-ukrainian-president-offshore-connections-volodymyr-zelenskiy) from the original on 3 October 2021. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
148.   [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-:8_151-0)[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-:8_151-1)Loginova, Elena (3 October 2021). ["Pandora Papers Reveal Offshore Holdings of Ukrainian President and his Inner Circle"](https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pandora-papers/pandora-papers-reveal-offshore-holdings-of-ukrainian-president-and-his-inner-circle). _OCCRP_. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
149.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-152)["Pandora Papers: Ukraine leader seeks to justify offshore accounts"](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/4/pandora-papers-ukraine-leader-seeks-to-justify-offshore-accounts). _www.aljazeera.com_. 4 October 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
150.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-153)Harding, Luke (3 October 2021). ["Revealed: 'anti-oligarch' Ukrainian president's offshore connections"](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/03/revealed-anti-oligarch-ukrainian-president-offshore-connections-volodymyr-zelenskiy). _the Guardian_. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
151.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-154)["'Pandora's box may ruin Zelenskyy's chances for a second term'"](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/5/pandora-papers-no-re-election-for-ukraines-comedian-president). _Al Jazeera_. 5 October 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
152.   [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-:3_155-0)[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-:3_155-1)Kravets, Novel; Balachuk, Irina (15 February 2022). ["Коломойський: Я не спілкуюсь із Зеленським, це може зробити погано і мені, і йому"](https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2022/02/15/7324032/). _Українська правда_ (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 May 2022.
153.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-:4_156-0)["Oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, under FBI probe, stripped of Ukraine citizenship"](https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2022/07/24/oligarch-ihor-kolomoisky-stripped-ukraine-citizenship/stories/202207230047). _Pittsburgh Post-Gazette_. 24 July 2022. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
154.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-157)Plewes, Dominique L. (9 June 2022). ["Aid to Ukraine: The Perils of Largesse"](https://www.thedefensepost.com/2022/06/09/us-aid-ukraine-corruption/). _The Defense Post_. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
155.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-158)["Corruption concerns in Ukraine resurface as US-aid inflows amid ongoing war"](https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/corruption-concerns-in-ukraine-resurface-as-us-aid-inflows-amid-ongoing-war-122072000263_1.html). _Business Standard India_. AP. 20 July 2022. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
156.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-159)Aris, Ben (14 July 2022). ["The West approves badly needed budgetary support for Ukraine, but delays dog distribution of funds"](https://www.intellinews.com/the-west-approves-badly-needed-budgetary-support-for-ukraine-but-delays-dog-distribution-of-funds-250417/). _www.intellinews.com_. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
157.   [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-:10_160-0)[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-:10_160-1)["Rumor has it Did Zelensky strip Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky of his citizenship? (Update)"](https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/07/28/rumor-has-it). _Meduza_. 28 July 2022. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
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158.   [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-:5_161-0)[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-:5_161-1)Nahaylo, Bohdan (21 July 2022). ["Have Kolomoisky, Rabynovych and Korban been stripped of their Ukrainian citizenship? - KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice"](https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/have-kolomoisky-rabynovych-and-korban-been-stripped-of-their-ukrainian-citizenship.html). _KyivPost_. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
159.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-162)["Korban confirms he was not allowed into Ukraine, passport seized"](https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/korban-confirms-he-not-allowed-into-ukraine-his-passport-seized.html). _KyivPost_. Interfax-Ukraine. 22 July 2022. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
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162.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-165)["The fallout of Zelenskyy's secret citizenship revocations"](https://web.archive.org/web/20220726180722/https://news.yahoo.com/fallout-zelenskyy-secret-citizenship-revocations-100000727.html). _Yahoo!_. 24 July 2022. Archived from [the original](https://news.yahoo.com/fallout-zelenskyy-secret-citizenship-revocations-100000727.html) on 26 July 2022. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
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164.   [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-:12_167-0)[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-:12_167-1)["Home of Ukrainian oil tycoon raided in anti-corruption purge"](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/1/home-of-ukrainian-oil-tycoon-raided-in-anti-corruption-purge). _www.aljazeera.com_. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
165.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-168)Garrod, Michael (12 December 2022). Ryabchiy, Kate (ed.). ["Ukraine's war-time nationalization of strategic enterprises rectifies past sins"](https://euromaidanpress.com/2022/12/12/ukraines-overlooked-nationalization-of-strategic-enterprises-deals-blow-to-oligarchy-and-corruption/).
166.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-169)Terajima, Asami (2 September 2023). ["Court arrests oligarch Kolomoisky, sets $14 million bail"](https://kyivindependent.com/court-arrests-kolomoisky-sets-14-million-bail/). _The Kyiv Independent_. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
167.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-170)Voitovych, Olga; Pennington, Josh; Lockwood, Pauline; Chen, Heather (3 September 2023). ["Ukrainian oligarch and Zelensky supporter Ihor Kolomoisky arrested in fraud investigation"](https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/03/world/ihor-kolomoisky-ukraine-fraud-investigation-intl-hnk/index.html). [CNN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN "CNN"). Retrieved 3 September 2023.
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170.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-173)Fornusek, Martin; The Kyiv Independent news desk (7 September 2023). ["Oligarch Kolomoisky charged with embezzling $250 million from PrivatBank"](https://kyivindependent.com/oligarch-kolomoisky-charged-with-embezzling-250-million-from-privatbank/). _The Kyiv Independent_. Retrieved 9 September 2023.
171.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-174)["NABU, SAPO seize Kolomoisky's assets"](https://interfax.com.ua/news/general/933806.html). _Interfax Ukraine_. 9 August 2023. Retrieved 9 September 2023.
172.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-175)["Ukrainian oligarch sanctioned following the FinCEN Files investigation arrested in Ukraine"](https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/ukrainian-oligarch-sanctioned-following-the-fincen-files-investigation-arrested-in-ukraine/). 7 September 2023.
173.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-176)Balachuk, Iryna. ["Ukrainian oligarch Kolomoiskyi served new notice of suspicion"](https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/09/15/7419898/). _Ukrainska Pravda_. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
174.   [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-Reuters3_177-0)[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-Reuters3_177-1)["New allegation against detained Ukrainian magnate Kolomoisky, official says"](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/new-allegation-against-detained-ukrainian-magnate-kolomoisky-official-says-2023-09-15/). _Reuters_. 15 September 2023. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
175.   [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-pravda3_178-0)[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-pravda3_178-1)["Ukrainian oligarch served third notice of suspicion"](https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/09/15/7419880/). _Ukrainska Pravda_. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
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177.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-180)Mazurenko, Alona; Romanenko, Valentyna. ["Ukrainian oligarch Kolomoiskyi served with notice of suspicion of organising contract killing"](https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/05/8/7454754/). _Ukrainska Pravda_. Retrieved 8 May 2024.
178.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-181)Ketrin Jochecova; Veronika Melkozerova (13 February 2025). ["Tensions erupt in Ukraine as Zelenskyy sanctions former leader Poroshenko"](https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-slaps-sanctions-on-former-president-petro-poroshenko-viktor-medvedchuk/). _Politico_.
179.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-182)Tim Zadorozhnyy (13 February 2025). ["Ukraine opens criminal cases against ex-President Poroshenko, sanctioned oligarchs, businessmen"](https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-opens-criminal-cases-against-ex-president-poroshenko-sanctioned-oligarchs-businessmen/). _The Kyiv Independent_.
180.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-interfax_july2026_183-0)["Former beneficiary of PrivatBank to be tried for UAH 9.2 bln scheme"](https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/1191350.html). _[Interfax-Ukraine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interfax-Ukraine "Interfax-Ukraine")_. 6 August 2026. Retrieved 7 August 2026.
181.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-mezha_july2026_184-0)["Anti-Corruption Prosecutors Send Kolomoisky PrivatBank Case to Court Over UAH 9.2 Billion"](https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/2ec93f52_anti-corruption_prosecutors_send/). _Mezha.net_. 6 August 2026. Retrieved 7 August 2026.
182.   [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kolomoisky#cite_ref-tdg2014_185-0)Rossier, Roland (30 May 2014). ["L'oligarque " genevois " qui défie Poutine"](https://www.tdg.ch/economie/entreprises/L-oligarque--genevois--qui-defie-Poutine/story/21138894). _Tribune de Genève_ (in French). Retrieved 8 July 2014.
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