Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoiskyi had law enforcers at his home on Saturday morning of September 2. They handed him a suspicion under several articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine at once.

According to OBOZREVATEL, we are talking about articles 190 and 209, which relate to the legalization of property obtained by fraud. This was reported by sources in the law enforcement agencies of the country (to watch the video, scroll to the end of the page).

It is known that the Security Service of Ukraine, the Economic Security Bureau and the Prosecutor General are in charge of the investigation.

SSU later confirmed that the actual owner of a large financial and industrial group Ihor Kolomoiskyi was suspected for:

- Art. 190 (fraud);

- Art. 209 (legalization (laundering) of property obtained by criminal means).

Investigators said that Kolomoiskyi legalized more than half a billion hryvnias by withdrawing them abroad during 2013-2020, using the infrastructure of controlled banking institutions.

The Prosecutor general specified that the businessman, took possession of funds of more than 570 million hryvnias by fraud. He then legalized it.

Interestingly, the Prosecutor General did not publicly name the suspect, but the following illustrative photo may hint at the person we are talking about.

As OBOZREVATEL wrote, Ukraine arrested assets of the Ukrnaftoburinnia on April 7, which is linked to Ihor Kolomoiskyi and his partners Vitaliy Khomutynnik and Pavlo Fuchs. The company is involved in a criminal case on the industrial development of the country's largest explored Sakhalin gas field (Kharkiv region).

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