Kolomoiskyi not brought to court; hearing postponed
The preparatory hearing in the case of businessman Ihor Kolomoisky on December 8 did not take place due to the fact that he was not brought to court due to a “car malfunction.” The Podilskyi Court of Kyiv postponed the hearing to December 11.
Many journalists arrived at the Podilskyi District Court, where the preparatory court hearing was to take place, because the day before, Kolomoiskyi had announced loud statements to the press at the next two hearings on December 8 and 9.
The businessman's lawyer, Oleksandr Lysak, confirmed that the judges postponed the hearing to December 11, with his and the prosecutor's consent.
Lysak said that his client is allegedly being held in custody "in any way" and that this is the second time that the convoy has allegedly been unable to deliver Kolomoisky to a court hearing due to "transport malfunction." In general, Kolomoisky, according to the lawyers, has not been able to deliver him to the courtroom for the fourth week.
We have two pending appeals: one detention order has already expired, and the other expires on the 14th. The court initially scheduled the hearing for the 20th, because there was no earlier date, although the Supreme Court issued a separate ruling. Then it was rescheduled for the 10th, but only to declare bias and recuse oneself.
As a reminder, NABU and SAPO reported suspicions of oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky in organizing a scheme to seize UAH 9.2 billion from PrivatBank, in which five more managers of the institution were involved. The scheme consisted in the artificial creation by an organized group of the bank's obligation to pay one of its controlled companies over UAH 9.2 billion for the alleged repurchase of its own bonds at an inflated value by forging relevant documents.
Part of these funds, namely over UAH 446 million, was legalized by transferring them under the guise of securities purchase and sale transactions to Kolomoisky's personal account through a number of financial transactions with controlled companies, and subsequently contributed by him to the bank's authorized capital in order to fulfill the requirements of PrivatBank's financial recovery program.
We also reported that the head of the Kyiv City State Administration will be tried for renovation of a private building.
