Kolomoisky’s defense has read less than half of the volumes of criminal proceedings – BES

The defense of businessman Ihor Kolomoisky has read 225 of the 550 volumes of the BES criminal proceedings, the Bureau of Economic Security reported on Sunday, UNN reports.

In August last year, the BES detectives separated the materials of the pre-trial investigation against the well-known oligarch into a separate criminal proceeding, where they announced the completion of the investigation under 4 articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine: Part 3 of Art. 27, Part 3 of Art. 28, Part 2 of Art. 366 (forgery), Part 3 of Art. 27, Part 3 of Art. 28, Part 2 of Art. 200 (Unlawful actions with transfer documents, payment cards and other means of access to bank accounts, electronic money), Art. 27, para. 3, Art. 209 (Legalization (laundering) of the proceeds of crime), Art. 27, para. 3, Art. 191, para. 5 (Misappropriation, embezzlement or seizure of property through abuse of office).

At the same time, the investigation of other members  of the group organized and led by the oligarch is ongoing. 

The BES detectives are also investigating a case involving two ferroalloy plants affiliated with well-known Ukrainian oligarchs. Currently, ARMA has started inspecting the property of the Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant owned by Kolomoisky. The property of the enterprise was transferred to the Asset Recovery and Management Agency in accordance with the decision of the investigating judge of the Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv.

Previously

The pre-trial investigation established that in 2014, officials of PrivatBank misappropriated funds from the National Bank of Ukraine allocated for refinancing the bank in the amount of over UAH 19 billion. The basis for such actions was dubious loan agreements secured by property rights to goods and assets, including the Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant.

The BES detectives also found that the companies had been exporting ferroalloy products to Austria, Cyprus and a number of other European countries for a long period of time. When selling the raw materials to foreign buyers, the plants’ officials deliberately understated their value. This allowed them to evade taxes on a particularly large scale.

The pre-trial investigation is ongoing. 

Recall 

In August, it was reported that law enforcement officers had completed an investigation into businessman Ihor Kolomoisky for embezzlement of UAH 5.36 billion and legalization of UAH 4.1 billion.

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