The Cypriot government has revoked the citizenship of eight people, including Ukrainian businessman Igor Kolomoisky*reported Philenews newspaper.
Kolomoisky* He received a “golden passport” in exchange for investments in 2010. At the same time, according to the publication, the businessman did not notify the Cypriot authorities that two years earlier they were investigating a case of tax evasion in Russia. The decision of the Cypriot government states that both before and after naturalization, the businessman remains a “person of dubious character”, and granting him citizenship posed a great risk to the reputation of the republic.
Kolomoisky* He is being held in Kyiv. Ukrainian authorities accuse him of laundering more than 500 million hryvnias ($13.6 million) between 2013 and 2020 by transferring money abroad through controlled banks, as well as taking 9.2 billion hryvnias ($250 million) from Privatbank, which he founded in 1992. The businessman is also suspected of the contract killing of a billionaire lawyer and son-in-law of Ukraine’s second president. Leonid Kuchma Victor Pinchuk.
*An individual included in the RosFinMonitoring list of terrorists and extremists
