The unofficial owner of Dnipro-1, former ultimate beneficial owner of PrivatBank and former owner of FC Dnipro, Ihor Kolomoiskyi, has been served with the third suspicion notice. This was reported by journalist Serhiy Leshchenko on his telegram channel.
Igor KolomoiskyThe report states that the businessman legalised some of the funds by transferring them to FK DNIPRO LLC.
"This is the result of an investigation conducted by the Bureau of Economic Security.
According to the document, Kolomoisky is suspected
- in organising the forgery of documents for the transfer of funds
- in organising the seizure of someone else's property by an organised group on a particularly large scale
- in the acquisition and disposal of property in respect of which the actual circumstances indicate that it was obtained by criminal means.
The pre-trial investigation established that Kolomoisky organised and led an organised group. It also included the head of the Kyiv branch of Privatbank, Serhiy Volkov, and other officials of the Kyiv branch and the head office of Privatbank.
Kolomoisky, as the organiser, and other members of the group developed a plan of criminal activity aimed at seizing the funds of PrivatBank. It consisted of artificially creating the appearance of depositing cash on behalf of Kolomoisky to the cash desk of the Head Office of PrivatBank, accounting for it, registering the transportation of non-existent cash by PrivatBank's cash collectors, etc.
Artificial cash deposits on behalf of Kolomoisky took place in the period from 26.03.2013 to 18.02.2014 in the total amount of UAH 5 billion 878 million.
Subsequently, non-cash funds in the amount of UAH 5.878 billion were legalised by transferring them to the address
- "FC DNEPR" LLC,
- To Kolomoisky's own account,
- to the organisation "UNITED JEWISH COMMUNITY OF UKRAINE"
- "PROTON-21" LTD.
- YUBI LLC (code 38204981)
- "FK GAMBIT" LTD.
- PJSC "NPK-GALICIA"
- by replenishing your own card account in "PRIVATBANK",
- a bank account in JSC "AIBOX BANK" with further transfer of funds to the accounts of non-resident companies:
- MARKS AND SOKOLOV LLC (USA),
- HUGHES HUBBARD AND REED LLP (USA),
- FIELDFISHER LLP (UK),
- NOMEA LAW FIRM (Switzerland)," Leshchenko wrote.
