by Oui
Wed Nov 12th, 2025 at 08:36:57 PM EST
Fully covered by me from 2014 on forward ...
AN INTRODUCTION ... A bit of history 🥹
Ukraine MP election: Removing Oligarchs ... Some | by Oui on 21 July 2019 |
Heading into Ukraine's July 21 parliamentary elections, new President Volodomyr Zelenskiy is riding a high. Having swept into office in late May with 73% of the vote, Zelenskiy is poised to take a commanding share of the Ukrainian Rada (parliament), if not an outright majority.
Most polls have his Servant of the People Party with somewhere between 42% and 48% of the vote, figures that are unheard of in a system in which a top party rarely wins more than one-third. The next most popular party, the pro-Russian Opposition Bloc, has only 15% of the vote according to polls. [Source: Brookings Institute]
From the diaries here @EuroTrib ...
Ukraine reverses nationalization of Israeli tycoon's bank | Times of Israel |
A Ukrainian court on Thursday [April 19, 2019] ruled that the 2016 nationalization of a major bank owned by a tycoon was illegal, sending shockwaves through the country's financial community.
Privatbank, Ukraine's biggest lender, was nationalized in 2016 after authorities discovered a capital shortfall of more than $5 billion. The bank was owned by tycoon Ihor Kolomoyskyi, who was appointed governor of a Ukrainian region by President Petro Poroshenko but later fell out with him.
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Commenting on the legal battle over No. 1 lender Privatbank, which was nationalized in 2016, Markarova said the government will continue to "defend its position" against former owner Igor Kolomoisky.
Rule of the day: To win a democratic election, one needs a Privat oligarch, bankers preferred.
A continuing story ... making war and endemic corruption of Ukraine's leaders ...
In what may be the largest ever English Court judgment, the High Court today awarded PrivatBank more than US$3 billion in damages and costs.
This follows the eagerly awaited judgment in PrivatBank v Kolomoisky & Ors [2025] EWHC 1987 (Ch) earlier this year. Further details are available here.
Between :
JSC COMMERCIAL BANK PRIVATBANK Claimant
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(1) IGOR VALERYEVICH KOLOMOISKY
(2) GENNADIY BORISOVICH BOGOLYUBOV
(3) TEAMTREND LIMITED
(4) TRADE POINT AGRO LIMITED
(5) COLLYER LIMITED
(6) ROSSYN INVESTING CORP
(7) MILBERT VENTURES INC
(8) ZAO UKRTRANSITSERVICE LTD Defendants
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Nearly 3 years ago ...
New corruption revelations ... embarrassing as ordinary people are dying on the battlefield ... heroes on fool's errand of Joe Biden & Co. [Wall Street].
Zelensky to impose sanctions against close associates following $100 million corruption scandal | Kyiv Independent |
President Volodymyr Zelensky is set to impose sanctions against Oleksandr Tsukerman and his close associate Timur Mindich, a source in the President's Office told the Kyiv Independent.
The two are implicated in the $100 million corruption scandal centered on the state-owned nuclear power company Energoatom, which has rocked the country since Monday.
Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko later said that the government had initiated the sanctions process.
"At an extraordinary meeting, the cabinet submitted proposals for consideration by the National Security and Defense Council on the application of personal sanctions against Timur Mindich and Oleksandr Tsukerman," Svyrydenko wrote on Facebook on Nov. 12.
Zelensky is expected to sign the sanctions into force following the council's approval.
On Nov. 11, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) charged eight people with bribery, abuse of office, and illicit enrichment. It also published tapes where the group, using code names and encrypted language, discussed alleged kickbacks and bribes for doing with business with the state nuclear power company Energoatom.
The main organizer of the alleged corruption scheme is Mindich, according to the bureau. He is the co-owner of the president's Kvartal 95 Studio production company.
Zelenskyy's former business partner Mindich left Ukraine hours before searches by anti-corruption agency - sources
Ukraine's government suspends justice minister in corruption probe | Reuters News |
Supporters of Ukraine Anti-Corruption Investigator Call His Jailing Absurd | NY Times - 12 Sept. 2025 |
The case of a detective who activists say was investigating close associates of President Volodymyr Zelensky is seen as a bellwether.
On Friday, the investigator, Ruslan Magamedrasulov, appeared in court in Kyiv and was ordered to remain in jail pending a trial, Ukrainian news outlets reported. He was arrested on July 21 by the S.B.U., Ukraine's domestic intelligence agency. He has been accused of aiding the enemy by working with his father to sell industrial hemp to clients in Russia. Ukraine strictly regulates any trade with Russia.
Mr. Magamedrasulov's supporters call the charges absurd and say he is a political prisoner. His fate, they say, is a bellwether for Ukraine's efforts to tackle its longstanding corruption problems.
Yaroslav Zhelezniak, a member of Parliament in the opposition party Holos, said that Mr. Magamedrasulov had been assisting an investigation into Timur Mindich, a former business partner of Mr. Zelensky's. Mr. Mindich and Mr. Zelensky shared ownership of a television studio, Kvartal 95 before Mr. Zelensky was elected president in 2019.
Daria Kaleniuk, the director of one of Ukraine's most prominent groups promoting clean government, said that Mr. Magamedrasulov was being prosecuted on the hemp trading allegation to shut down his investigation into high-level corruption.
