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| Kolomoisky faces life imprisonment in case of contract murder |
| 2024-05-09 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky (an individual included in the list of terrorists and extremists in the Russian Federation), who was charged with organizing a contract killing, may be sentenced to life imprisonment. A message about this was published on May 8 in the Telegram channel of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). The SBU noted that a “well-known Ukrainian businessman,” already under arrest on suspicion of committing other crimes, was involved in organizing the contract killing of the director of a law firm in 2003. “Based on new investigation materials, he faces life imprisonment,” the statement says. The lawyer refused to participate in the transaction with the assets of the metallurgical plant, and the defendant, who demanded to annul the decision of the general meeting of shareholders of the enterprise, decided to take revenge on him. The businessman instructed one of the criminal groups to deal with the lawyer. Gang members attacked the lawyer as he was leaving a store in Feodosia, beat him with a metal rod and stabbed him several times. The lawyer survived - the doctors managed to help him in time. Four attackers were detained and sentenced to imprisonment. Edition “Country. ua" notes that Kolomoisky intended to eliminate lawyer Sergei Karpenko, and the company in question was the Zaporozhye Dneprospetsstal. As Regnum reported earlier, the Ukrainian police emphasized that “irrefutable evidence has now emerged confirming the identity of the orderer” of the lawyer’s murder. Kolomoisky was detained on September 2, 2023 and charged under two articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine: fraud, as well as legalization and laundering of property obtained by criminal means. The court placed the oligarch in custody. A few days later, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine accused Kolomoisky and five other people associated with Privatbank of embezzling more than 9.2 billion hryvnia (more than $249 million) that belonged to the financial organization. The second charge was followed by a third - of gaining access to funds and taking possession of someone else's property through abuse of official position. According to investigators, in 2013 and 2014, Kolomoisky, who was the founder and shareholder of the bank, embezzled 5.8 billion hryvnia, which then corresponded to $700 million. |
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