A good third is said to be due to massive fraud, which Kolomoiskij and his business partner Gennadij Bogoljubow are said to have committed as owners of the "private bank". Until the central bank (NBU) found a gap of $ 5.5 billion in its balance sheet and the government saved the bank from collapse in December 2016 through nationalization. Since then, the now state-owned private bank and the NBU have been trying to retrieve the billions of Kolomoiskij and Co. that have been moved all over the world - with lawsuits in London and Geneva, in the US state of Delaware or in Tel Aviv.
Kolomoiskij and Bogoljubow deny any guilt. However, a report by the financial detective agency Kroll and advertisements in foreign courts paint such a comprehensive picture of the billion dollar transfers worldwide that a London judge spoke long before a judgment of "fraud of epic proportions". In Ukraine, however, Kolomoiskij has been on the offensive since Selensky became president and his "servants of the people" party represents an absolute majority in parliament. A total of around 20 Kolomoiskij MPs are close to the parliament.
The oligarch and ally have filed around 400 lawsuits with the notoriously corrupt Ukrainian courts: to declare the nationalization of the private bank illegal, to invalidate contracts with foreign detectives and lawyers, to end today's management of the private bank - and then the billion dollar lawsuits before western ones To withdraw courts. The Kiev district court, discredited by previous scandal judgments, ruled, for example, that the nationalization was invalid - but the judgment is contested.
The IMF also requires Selensky to rule out the return of the private bank to its ex-owners. On December 11, the corresponding bill 2571 was brought into parliament: It not only excluded the return, but also stipulated that former owners of a nationalized bank had to prove that they had suffered damage in advance of a theoretically possible compensation - based on international booking standards and confirmed by expert reports from western, internationally recognized auditors. But then Parliament's Finance and Tax Committee got down to work.
If necessary, the influential whisperers sometimes speak directly to the President
Committee chairman Dannilo Getmanzew was formerly owned by Kolomoiskijs offshore company Selantia Ltd. paid for services, as can be seen from his declaration of assets for 2015, which was viewed by the Süddeutsche Zeitung . Alexander Dubinskij, committee vice-president for banks, previously moderated Kolomoiskijs television station 1 + 1 and after the private bank nationalization in 2016 Kolomoiskijs propagandist in attacks against the government and NBU. The secretary of the finance committee is Igor Paliza, according to Kolomoiskij his longtime "comrade, friend, partner". In mid-December, Dubinsky said the bill would be "radically" changed.
Indeed: When an IMF delegation came to Kiev at the end of February, the draft law 2571 was decisively changed in Kolomoiskij's favor: Now the ex-owners were not required to provide evidence, as were western accounting standards and accountants, the draft provided that after one Court decision in favor of Kolomoiskij within six months on the compensation. During a meeting on February 27, the IMF made it clear to President Selensky that there could be no question of credit until the fate of the private bank and Law 2571 were satisfactorily clarified. President Selensky has repeatedly said that neither Kolomoiskij nor other oligarchs have any influence on him.
But Kolomoiskij's influence actually seems to be unbroken - not only in the Finance Committee. At President Selenskij, Kolomoiskij's former lawyer Andrij Bohdan was recently replaced as chief of staff. If necessary, the oligarch will speak to the president directly. Justice Minister Dennis Maljuski had to listen to criticism from the president at a meeting of Selensky with Kolomoiskij, the magazine Novoje Wremja reported .
And on February 28, one day after the conversation with the IMF, Selensky ordered Prime Minister Olexei Honcharuk to read the weekly Serkalo Nedeli : Kolomoiskij was very unhappy that the government wanted to fire directors of state-owned energy companies close to him. Honcharuk replied that he did not understand Selenskij's line: "Today we will fight Kolomoiskij, tomorrow we will not do it; today we will improve relations with the IMF, tomorrow we will spoil it. If I do not understand something correctly here, I might better step back" a member of the Presidential Office replied the words of the Prime Minister.
Five days later, Honcharuk was replaced by Dennis Schmigal, previously a manager in the empire of oligarch Akhmetov. The respected finance minister was also fired and replaced.
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/ukraine-im-griff-der-oligarchen-1.4836028
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