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A very nostalgic story about how a top manager for Kolomoisky stole an indecently large number of billions, yet still lives his best life in Switzerland despite being wanted by NABU (UPDATE: they say he has in fact already moved to Israel).
This is about Mykhailo Kiperman, who at Kolomoisky’s Privat was one of the main schemers involved in robbing the state. Kolomoisky once admitted that he paid Kuchma through his son-in-law Pinchuk $5 million monthly for the ability to loot Ukrnafta and overall ended up paying $110 million.
These funds were skimmed off by his managers, including Kiperman. He was so rich that in 2006 he managed to win the “Vera Brezhneva” star from another businessman and marry her (although during Yanukovych’s time he lost her, because she went to Konstantin Meladze, leaving Kiperman one of her daughters — in the photo on the left), who seemingly still lives with her father in Switzerland, where he is hiding from NABU).
So. Kiperman stole like there was no tomorrow. They stole almost 1 billion hryvnias on electricity at Ukrenergo together with banker Yuliia Frolova from Alliance, and her lawyer Nosov from the firm Miller wanted to resolve the issue with NABU/SAP by transferring the case to some other law enforcement body so they could flush the case down the toilet. He offered a bribe of 200 thousand bucks, but the anticorruption agencies accepted it and sentenced him to 4 years in prison.
And yesterday NABU reported proving another episode — the theft of fuel at Ukrnafta of almost 3 billion hryvnias. This was stolen back in 2017–2018 years, when Kobolev did nothing about the “Privat” people in the flows. It turned out that the “Privat” people sold the fuel, but on paper it supposedly continued to sit in state warehouses. And this dragged on until 2022, they even wanted to write it off as Russian strikes. But, as I understood from the dates in NABU’s materials, with Koretsky’s arrival at Ukrnafta they shut this operation down.
And now they’ve been brought to suspicion. But as I already said above, Kiperman long ago ran off from here and settled in Switzerland. And for some reason he doesn’t care at all((( I hope this is temporary, because in principle we have extradition with Switzerland. Previously that country even extradited to us one of the agribusinessmen who was suspected of fraud for 800 million hryvnias. And Kiperman’s stolen amount is clearly much larger, and that’s only what could be proven. There’s something to unfreeze for the benefit of the Armed Forces)))
Yurii Nikolov, journalist and founder of the project “Nashi Hroshi”; author’s page on Facebook
“Argument”: In the first days of the full-scale war Kiperman was taken out through Zakarpattia by the family of MP Valerii Lunchenko. Former Minister of Ecology Ostap Semerak also helped.
On this topic:
NABU and SAP uncovered misappropriation in 2017–2018 years of petroleum products of PJSC Ukrnafta — Kolomoisky’s organized criminal group stole more than 100 thousand tons of oil
He moved 600 million to Switzerland: why the SBU announced suspicion of Kolomoisky’s partner
Kiperman’s lawyer, who bribed SAP prosecutors for $200 thousand, will serve 4,5 years
Yurii Nikolov: They played themselves. The money ran out
Iryna Farion: “There are only two paths: either the banderization of Ukraine, or the banditization of Ukraine. There is no third path.” Part 104
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item "Юрій Ніколов: Михайло Кіперман багато завинив народу України". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: argumentua.com.
