Zelensky and Kolomoisky
Zelensky and Kolomoisky
and their Neo-Nazi paramilitaries
Ihor Kolomoisky is a Jewish Ukrainian-Israeli business oligarch rated as the second or third richest person in Ukraine. He holds three passports: Ukrainian, Cyprus, and Israeli.
Kolomoisky was one of the main sponsors inside Ukraine of the Maidan demonstrations and the subsequent overthrow of the government.
Since the beginning of the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine, it is believed he has spent around 10 million dollars to create and fund the Dnipro-Battalion also nicknamed “Kolomoisky’s battalion”.
Kolomoisky had lavishly funded the right-wing Right Sector battalion and at one point flirted with the ultra-nationalist Svoboda party.
The American-Jewish online paper Algemeiner.com writes in the article "Ukraine: Batallion Backed by Jewish Billionaire Sent to Fight Pro-Russian Militias", June 24, 2014:
“Among those going into battle from the Ukrainian side are some 500 trained fighters in the self-declared Azov battalion, backed by Jewish energy magnate and Dnipropetrovsk region governor, Igor Kolomoisky, according to Israel’s Ma’ariv daily.
A source at Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, cited by Voice of Russia, claimed that “Kolomoisky is the most outspoken opponent of the plan on settling the situation in the East of Ukraine.”
Ihor Kolomoisky “also managed to seize the largest reserves of natural gas in Ukraine. A 2012 study of Burisma Holdings done in Ukraine by the AntiCorruption Action Centre (ANTAC), an investigative nonprofit co-funded by American billionaire George Soros and the U.S. State Department, found that the true owner of Burisma Holdings was none other than Ukrainian billionaire-oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky.
The study, which was funded to dig up corruption on the Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, instead found that Ihor Kolomoisky “managed to seize the largest reserves of natural gas in Ukraine”
https://greatgameindia.com/hunter-biden-zelensky-neo-nazi/
Burisma Holdings changed owners in 2011 when it was taken over by an off-shore Cyprus enterprise called Brociti Investments Ltd, and subsequently, moved addresses under the same roof as Ukrnaftoburinnya and Esko-Pivnich, two Ukrainian gas companies which happened to be also owned by Kolomoisky through off-shore entities in the British Virgin Islands.
Oleh Kanivets, who worked as CEO of Ukrnaftoburinnya, confirmed Kolomoisky as the owner of Burisma Holding in the 2012 report saying, “The Privat Group is the immediate owner. This company was founded by Mykola Zlochevsky some time ago, but he later sold his shares to the Privat Group.”
In other words, Hunter Biden’s boss and benefactor at Burisma Holdings is the same Ukrainian billionaire-oligarch who also claimed the position of boss and benefactor over Volodymyr Zelensky before he became Ukraine’s president.
Kolomoisky’s private broadcasting group 1+1 Media own the English language TV-channel "Ukraine Today".
After then-President Petro Poroshenko nationalized Kolomoiskyi’s PrivatBank (which was also operated by fellow Jew Gennadiy (Zvi Hirsch) Bogolyubov) in 2016. Kolomoisky was accused of fraud
A subsequent investigation by Ukraine regulators found a $5.5 billion shortfall in PrivatBank's ledgers from what they called “a large-scale and coordinated fraud” that involved the bank’s major shareholders, Kolomoisky and fellow Ukrainian billionaire Gennadiy Bogolyubov. To keep the bank from collapse, the government tapped into taxpayer funds to plug the hole and to bail it out in 2016.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/13/world/europe/ukraine-ihor-kolomoisky-russia.html
Kolomoisky left Ukraine for Israel and only returned to Ukraine in 2019 after spending two years in self-imposed exile in the wake of a government takeover of PrivatBank
A grand jury investigation in Cleveland targeted the influential oligarch and traced the millions that he and his associates allegedly sent through US correspondent banks.
Among the purchases: a 484-room, luxury hotel in Cleveland with lakefront views and a 21-story office tower just blocks away with vaulted ceilings and murals that once featured the largest bank lobby in the world.
PrivatBank alleges that Kolomoisky and Bogolyubov oversaw a scheme to fraudulently procure loans from PrivatBank and to launder the loan proceeds through various accounts around the world. According to PrivatBank, the allegedly stolen funds were ultimately invested in U.S.-based assets by Mr. Korf and Mr. Laber.
In issuing a stay that put PrivatBank's claims on ice, the Delaware court relied on, among other things, a spate of recent decisions by eight different courts in Ukraine, including six trial-level courts and two appellate courts, unanimously ruling that the very loans PrivatBank claims were fraudulent in the Delaware case were in fact perfectly legitimate, and that PrivatBank's allegations were contrary to the evidence.
Mr. Korf and Mr. Laber are lifelong American citizens and leaders in the metallurgical and commercial real estate industries, who have created hundreds of jobs in the Midwestern and Southern United States, including in economically depressed areas in Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia.
They reside in Miami, Florida with their wives and children and are business leaders and highly regarded philanthropists in the Jewish communities in Miami and beyond.
Mr. Korf and Mr. Laber met Mr. Kolomoisky and Mr. Bogolyubov in Ukraine, while on a religious mission in the early 1990s as young Jewish students following the fall of the Soviet Union. Over the years, they partnered with Mr. Kolomoisky and Mr. Bogolyubov on various investments, first in Ukraine, and later in the United States.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/news-delaware-court-puts-privatbanks-203900095.html
Oligarch Igor Kolomoisky's base of operations in the U.S. is Cleveland. Cleveland and Youngstown and maybe all of Ohio are home base for a syndicate which allegedly includes Leslie Wexner although there is no apparent link between them
At one time, Kolomoisky and his associates were the largest commercial landlords in Cleveland, owning 2.8 million square feet. One of the properties that drew the FBI's attention is the Warren Steel plant in Ohio, which is owned by companies under the control of Kolomoisky and two partners, and is the focus of a bitter legal dispute over the assets.
Two federal court orders have been imposed to stop the release of critical evidence obtained after one of the partners turned up hundreds of bank wires flowing into the United States from companies in which Kolomoisky and Bogolyubov held ownership stakes.
Filings from American prosecutors detailed how Kolomoisky allegedly made use of his handle of Ukraine’s major retail financial institution, PrivatBank, to loot staggering sums from Ukrainian depositors, and then utilized a series of shell companies and offshore accounts to whisk the funds out of the region and into the U.S.
The strategy appears to be to have been to obtain troubled assets that American sellers were eager to offload. Even if the purchasers finally took a loss, the property was outside the grasp of Ukrainian investigators and could continue to act as vehicles by way of which to funnel dollars.
Maybe most importantly, the houses could be purchased with out substantial inquiry into the resource of the monies: For a long time, American real-estate gurus have benefited from a “temporary” exemption to anti-funds laundering rules, letting them to steer clear of doing due diligence on the client making the purchase.
In subsequent attempts to seize the operation’s property, American prosecutors laid out a idea that Kolomoisky’s purchases was overseen by Laber and Korf, who “created a internet of entities, using some variation of the title ‘Optima,’ to launder the misappropriated money and spread them” across numerous states.
According to the DOJ, the funds from PrivatBank were hidden as a result of a variety of shell companies and offshore accounts, ahead of becoming injected into the Optima network, and from there all over the American Midwest. And all of this took put though Kolomoisky — now sanctioned by the U.S. for “significant corruption” and “ongoing attempts to undermine Ukraine’s democratic processes”
The facts gathered by U.S. and Ukrainian investigators and laid out in DOJ filings and court cases all around the entire world, from Delaware to the United kingdom to Israel, comprise what a analyst said could be“the biggest case of money laundering in history.”
Kolomoisky says he purchased the American assets with his own money, denying the Justice Department’s allegations about laundering ill-gotten funds. Neither he nor his American associates (who also deny wrongdoing) have been charged with any crime.
Kolomoyskyi threw his influence Volodymyr Zelenskyy presidential bid in 2019
Zelenskyy’s was the actor and head of Studio Kvartal 95, who played the president in the series Servant of the People and won in real life. Their shows and programs are hits on the channel owned by Igor Kolomoisky
In the series, Zelenskyy’s character was a high-school history teacher in his 30s who won the presidential election after a viral video showed him ranting against government corruption in Ukraine. In retrospect, the show was a masterwork of social engineering and life imitating art.
Elected on a platform of anti-corruption and de-escalation of hostilities with Russia, Zelensky was determined to enforce the so-called Steinmeier Formula conceived by then-German Foreign Minister Walter Steinmeier which called for elections in the Russian-speaking regions of Donetsk and Lugansk.
Seems strange Kolomoisky would back a candidate running on such a platform.
Despite his anti-corruption platform The Pandora Papers exposed Zelensky and members of his inner circle.
The Pandora Papers showed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his TV production partners were beneficiaries of a web of offshore firms created in 2012, the same year Zelensky’s production company entered into a deal with Kolomoisky’s media group, which allegedly received $41 million in funds from Kolomoisky’s Privatbank.
The year when Kvartal began to cooperate with the oligarch, key people of the company registered several companies on distant islands. The network was assisted by the offshore registrar Fidelity and Ukrainian lawyer Yurii Azarov, whose signature is on all key documents.
At the heart of the network is the previously unknown company Maltex Multicapital. It is allegedly divided between the companies of Volodymyr Zelensky, brothers Serhii and Borys Shefirs and Andrii Yakovlev. The trust declaration was signed by the current head of the Security Service of Ukraine Ivan Bakanov. His company was the nominal owner of Maltex. The names of the real owners were safely hidden in the vault.
If we take a closer look at how the Kvartal business is structured, we will see that the products are created and shown mainly in Ukraine. At the same time, transactions are made through foreign companies. Accordingly, taxes on these transactions do not go to the Ukrainian budget.
A little later, the co-owner of Kvartal 95, Serhii Shafir, stated that Zelensky had left the business. On March 13, 2019, amid the presidential race, a lawyer working for the firms of Zelensky and his partners, Yurii Azarov, signed the document. It is a transfer of shares to Maltex, which is equally divided between the offshore leaders of Kvartal 95.
The firm of Serhii Shafir, the future chief aide to the president, received a quarter of Maltex's ownership free of charge from Zelensky's firm in Belize. The day after the inauguration, Zelensky appointed Serhii Shafir as chief aide to the president of Ukraine.
On April 25, 2019, a few weeks after the transfer of Zelenskyy's share to Serhii Shafir, the same lawyer Yurii Azarov signed another document stating that Maltex intends to pay dividends to Zelensky's offshore company. Surprisingly, his offshore company no longer owned a stake in this firm.
Cases involving high-ranking civil servants are being investigated by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau. NABU detectives are also investigating crimes related to money laundering.
In spring 2019, Trump’s personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani embarked on a mission to press Zelensky to assist Trump by opening politically charged investigations into former vice president Joe Biden and his son, Giuliani’s associates met with Kolomoisky to request that Giuliani get a sit-down with the rising Ukrainian politician.
At one point, Giuliani complained that Zelensky was being advised by “Kolomoisky’s representatives and enemies of President Trump.”
A lawyer for Kolomoisky told The Post that during the Tel Aviv meeting, Parnas and Fruman claimed that they could get top U.S. officials, including Vice President Pence and then-Energy Secretary Rick Perry, to travel to Ukraine around the time of Zelensky’s May 2019 inauguration — if Kolomoisky paid them several hundred thousand dollars.
Kolomoisky did not pay the money, instead throwing the two men out of his office, his lawyer has said.
The attorney, Bruce Marks, told The Post that Kolomoisky had predicted to friends at the time: “This is going to end up in a bad scandal.”
By 2020 Azov had been formally incorporated into the Ukrainian military and its street vigilante wing, known as the National Corps, was deployed across the country under the watch of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, and alongside the National Police. As mentioned Igor Kolomoisky, has been a top funder of Azovsince it was formed in 2014. He has also bankrolled private militias like the Dnipro and Aidar Battalions, and has deployed them as a personal thug squad to protect his financial interests.
In December 2021, Zelensky would be seen delivering a “Hero of Ukraine” award to a leader of the fascistic Right Sector in a ceremony in Ukraine’s parliament.
A full-scale conflict with Russia was approaching, and the distance between Zelensky and the extremist paramilitaries was closing fast.
This February 24, when Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukrainian territory on a stated mission to “demilitarize and denazify” the country, US media embarked on a mission of its own: to deny the power of neo-Nazi paramilitaries over the country’s military and political sphere. As the US government-funded National Public Radio insisted, “Putin’s language [about denazification] is offensive and factually wrong.”
In its bid to deflect from the influence of Nazism in contemporary Ukraine, US media has found its most effective PR tool in the figure of Zelensky, a former TV star and comedian from a Jewish background. It is a role the actor-turned-politician has eagerly assumed.
Zelensky has not only ceded ground to the neo-Nazis in his midst, he has entrusted them with a front line role in his country’s war against pro-Russian and Russian forces.
Hours before President Putin’s February 24 speech declaring denazification as the goal of Russian operations, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “asked how a people who lost eight million of its citizens fighting Nazis could support Nazism,” according to the BBC.
Raised in a non-religious Jewish family in the Soviet Union during the 1980’s, Zelensky has downplayed his heritage in the past.
Today, as Russian troops bear down on cities like Mariupol, which is effectively under the control of the Azov Battalion, Zelensky is no longer ashamed to broadcast his Jewishness. “How could I be a Nazi?” he wondered aloud during a public address.
For a US media engaged in an all-out information war against Russia, the president’s Jewish background has become an essential public relations tool.
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/04/nazis-ukrainian-war-russia/
Perhaps this explains Kolomoisky support for a Jewish Actor running on a platform of lies knowing that the coming War with Russia would face difficulties gaining the support of the Western people given Ukraines neo-nazi infiltration. Zelensky’s Jewishness would help counter this narrative
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