>The Ukrainian businessman, whose first name is also spelled Ihor, also saw London’s court system freeze his assets this year following the nationalization of PrivatBank, after which Ukraine claimed Kolomoisky and another main shareholder of the bank had siphoned away $2 billion, according to Reuters.
This is part of what Rudy's been hinting at.
(roughly)
US + IMF aid → Privatbank → Kolomoisky → Burisma → Bidens, etc.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-privatbank-insight/ukraine-money-go-round-how-1-7-billion-in-bank-loans-ended-up-offshore-idUSKBN1FD0G5
January 24, 2018 / 7:15 AM / 2 years ago
Ukraine money-go-round: how $1.7 billion in bank loans ended up offshore
ARTSYZ, Ukraine/LONDON (Reuters) - When Ukrainian company Profit signed a $48.5 million deal with a British firm in 2014, it became part of what prosecutors in Ukraine say was a potentially criminal scheme that moved $1.7 billion from the country’s biggest lender to offshore accounts.
The deal between Profit and Trade Point Agro is part of a pre-trial investigation that is still under way into whether officials at PrivatBank illegally took money from the lender through shady loan practices involving dozens of companies.
PrivatBank, which was nationalized in December 2016, and Ukraine’s anti-corruption bureau are also investigating whether the bank illegally provided loans to companies linked to two wealthy tycoons who owned the bank before the state takeover.
PrivatBank, now controlled by the state, said the court order was granted on the basis of detailed evidence to the court that they extracted almost $2 billion from PrivatBank through dishonest transactions.
An investigation commissioned by the central bank in 2017 found that PrivatBank had for at least a decade been used for money-laundering and shady deals where 95 percent of corporate loans went to companies related to the former owners. Kolomoisky dismissed the findings, made public this month, as “nonsense”.
General Prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko said in December there was “no easy legal answer” to the question of whether Kolomoisky and PrivatBank stole money, and that Kolomoisky believes he agreed to the nationalization under duress.
“Who is responsible for the stolen money? Kolomoisky’s answer: nobody stole money,” Lutsenko said.