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The Appeals Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) will consider Ihor Kolomoyskyi’s motion to determine the court with jurisdiction over the criminal proceedings accusing him of organizing the misappropriation of 9,2 billion UAH from PrivatBank on 28 August. According to the investigation, five other former top bank managers were involved in the scheme alongside the oligarch. Kolomoyskyi’s defense seeks to have the case heard in a court other than the HACC.
The appointment of the hearing is stated in the decision of the HACC Appeals Chamber, reports "Slovo i dilo." The judges will consider the defendant’s motion to determine jurisdiction in the criminal proceedings under Article 34 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine.
"Schedule the hearing to consider the defendant’s motion to determine the jurisdiction of the criminal proceedings under Art. 34 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine to be held in the premises of the Appeals Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court on 28 August 2026 at 12:45," reads the decision of the HACC Appeals Chamber.
Those accused in the case include director of the interbank dealing department Yaroslav Luhovyi, former PrivatBank chairman Oleksandr Dubilet, former deputy chair Liudmyla Shmalchenko, former head of the interbank operations department Nadia Konopkina, and former deputy head of the correspondent accounts servicing department Tetiana Yakymenko. According to the investigation, the scheme to misappropriate funds was organized back in 2015, when Kolomoyskyi was the bank’s owner and simultaneously head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration.
Clarifying the details of the scheme to misappropriate billions
According to the investigation, PrivatBank was artificially compelled to pay a company under its control more than 9,2 billion UAH under the pretext of an alleged buyback of its own bonds at an inflated price. Part of the amount — over 446 million UAH — was transferred to accounts of companies associated with the businessman under the guise of securities purchase-and-sale transactions to launder the funds, and later these funds were contributed to the bank’s charter capital to meet the requirements of the institution’s financial recovery program. The perpetrators disposed of the remaining funds at their own discretion.
Attempts by defendants in cases against Kolomoyskyi to have matters heard in another court are not new for this group of accused. Former PrivatBank chairman Oleksandr Dubilet previously tried to move the hearing of another case about the embezzlement of PrivatBank funds from the HACC to the Zhovtnevyi District Court of Dnipropetrovsk — now the Sobornyi District Court of Dnipro. The Supreme Court rejected those arguments, noting that the jurisdiction issue was already resolved in October 2023 and cannot be reviewed again.
Informator earlier reported that Kolomoyskyi and Hennadii Boholiubov are obliged to pay PrivatBank more than 3 billion USD following a decision of the High Court of England, which found them liable for fraud against the bank. We also wrote that part of the funds siphoned from PrivatBank ended up with former top manager Tymur Novikov, who now lives abroad and is named in the British decision as a participant in the scheme involving loans to related companies.
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