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| Kolomoisky is suspected of organizing the massacre of Kuchma’s close associate |
| 2024-06-19 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Kolomoisky also funded and armed an anti-Russian militia, Right Sector. Kiev, June 18, 2024, 17:54 - IA Regnum. In Ukraine, businessman Igor Kolomoisky was suspected of contract killing of the lawyer of the son-in-law of the second president of the country Leonid Kuchma, Viktor Pinchuk, Ukrainian News reported on June 18. According to court documents, in 2003, a businessman instructed his security guard to organize the murders of a lawyer. After this, Kolomoisky’s subordinate allegedly contacted the gang, which in the summer of 2003 attacked the man with a sawn-off metal pipe and a plumber’s hammer. It subsequently turned out that the victim was not the target of the attackers. After this, the gang members began to monitor the new potential victim. An attack on a lawyer who was associated with the Kuchma family occurred in the summer of the same year, but they were unable to complete the crime. As Regnum reported, on May 8, the Telegram channel of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reported that Kolomoisky could be sentenced to life imprisonment. 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. 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. 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 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. |
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