Ihor Kolomoyskyi
Israeli–Cypriot and former Ukrainian businessman and politician
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| February 14 2025 | Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office announced the opening of criminal investigations against Kolomoyskyi and other sanctioned individuals. |
| February 13 2025 | President Zelenskyy imposed sanctions on Kolomoyskyi for suspected 'high treason' and assisting a terrorist organization. |
| 2024 | Cypriot citizenship was revoked after a review found that Kolomoyskyi had withheld information about his criminal charges in his original golden visa application. |
| 2024 | The Cassational Court rejects final appeals in the PrivatBank nationalization case. |
| May 8 2024 | While in detention, served with a notice of suspicion for allegedly ordering a contract killing of a law firm director in 2003. |
| September 15 2023 | SBU served a third notice of suspicion for allegedly embezzling 5.8 billion hryvnia from PrivatBank, with additional allegations of document forgery and illegal property acquisitions. Bail increased to 3.8 billion hryvnia. |
| September 7 2023 | National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) added charges alleging embezzlement of 9.2 billion hryvnia from PrivatBank between January and March 2015, with assets seized. |
| September 2 2023 | Arrested by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) on charges of money laundering and fraud, placed under pre-trial arrest with bail set at 509 million hryvnia. |
| January 2023 | Authorities raided Kolomoyskyi's home in what was described as a sweeping wartime clampdown on corruption by a Zelenskyy ally. |
| January 2023 | Home raided by authorities in what was described as a wartime anti-corruption operation. |
| 2022 | FC Dnipro, previously owned by Kolomoyskyi, is dissolved after being relegated. |
| 2022 | The Economic Court of Kyiv and the Supreme Court of Ukraine affirm the legality of the National Bank of Ukraine's actions in taking PrivatBank into government control. |
| November 2022 | Ukrainian authorities seized two oil companies (Ukrnafta and Ukrtatnafta) owned by Kolomoyskyi after the SBU uncovered alleged embezzlement of over $1 billion. |
| July 2022 | A member of Zelenskyy's team reportedly claimed Kolomoyskyi was hiding from Russian shelling at the Menorah Centre in Dnipro. |
| July 28 2022 | President Zelenskyy confirmed the authenticity of the decree revoking Kolomoyskyi's Ukrainian citizenship. |
| July 18 2022 | A presidential decree was published online by opposition MP Serhiy Vlasenko stripping Kolomoyskyi of Ukrainian citizenship. |
| June 2022 | Kolomoyskyi's barrister claimed he was a 'target' of Russian President Putin in London High Court proceedings. |
| February 2022 | During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Dnipro Guard, originally supported by Kolomoyskyi in 2014, remained active in providing defence and maintaining law and order in Dnipro. |
| January 2022 | Zelenskyy's Justice Minister Denis Malyuska proposed including Kolomoyskyi in the register of the new anti-oligarchic law. |
| 2021 | Banned from entering the United States due to accusations of corruption and being a threat to democratic institutions. |
| October 2021 | The Pandora Papers revealed Zelenskyy and associates' offshore companies, with allegations of potential money laundering from Kolomoyskyi's Privatbank. |
| April 2021 | US sanctions were announced against Kolomoyskyi, prompting the Ukrainian President's Office to release a statement about overcoming the oligarchic system. |
| April 2021 | Kolomoyskyi and his family are banned from entering the U.S. by the State Department, accused of corruptly using his position as Governor of Dnipropetrovsk to personally enrich himself. |
| February 1 2021 | Oleksandr Dubinsky, a former 1+1 journalist who opposed the 'anti-Kolomoyskyi law', was expelled from Zelenskyy's Servant of the People parliamentary faction. |
| 2020 | Zelenskyy sponsored a law banning former owners from recovering nationalized assets, which appeared to reduce Kolomoyskyi's influence. |
| 2020 | Indicted in the United States on charges related to large-scale bank fraud. |
| August 2020 | U.S. Department of Justice alleges Kolomoyskyi, Bogolyubov, Korf, and Lader obtained properties as part of a $5.5 billion Ponzi scheme, using PrivatBank's Cyprus branch to launder stolen loan funds. |
| 2019 | Ukrainian magazine Focus ranked Kolomoyskyi third on their list of the 100 most influential Ukrainians. |
| November 2019 | Reported by The New York Times to be behind plans for a controversial ski resort in Svydovets, Ukraine. |
| April 2019 | A Ukrainian court rules the nationalization of PrivatBank illegal, though Ukraine's central bank says reversal is impossible. |
| April 2019 | FBI begins investigating Kolomoyskyi over financial crimes involving Bogolyubov, Vadim Shulman, and Mordechai Korf, related to steel holdings and mining interests. |
| April 21 2019 | Zelenskyy defeated President Poroshenko in the second round of the presidential election with 73 percent of the vote, a campaign widely viewed as supported by Kolomoyskyi. |
| March 2018 | Members of Zelenskyy's production company Kvartal 95 registered a new political party called 'Servant of the People'. |
| March 2018 | Valeria Hontareva, former chairwoman of Ukraine's central bank, characterizes Kolomoyskyi and Bogolyubov's PrivatBank operation as one of the biggest financial scandals of the 21st century, alleging a state loss of at least $5.5 billion. |
| February 14 2017 | PrivatBank is liquidated. |
| 2016 | Kolomoyskyi and Bogolyubov are accused of defrauding PrivatBank of billions of dollars through large unsecured loans to shareholders. |
| December 2016 | Ukrainian government nationalizes PrivatBank, declaring it severely undercapitalized and a threat to the country's financial system, with a $5.6 billion bailout financed by IMF funds. |
| April 1 2016 | Kolomoyskyi's '1+1' media group ceases all TV broadcasts, with the project proving unprofitable. |
| January 2016 | An undisclosed out-of-court settlement is reached in the civil action brought by Victor Pinchuk, just before the trial was due to start. |
| 2015 | Victor Pinchuk brings a $2 billion civil action against Kolomoyskyi and Gennadiy Bogolyubov in the High Court of Justice in London over a 2004 Ukrainian mining company purchase. |
| March 2015 | The Economist reported Kolomoyskyi's net worth had declined to $1.36 billion following a sharp devaluation of the Ukrainian hryvnia. |
| 2014 | Kolomoyskyi supported the formation of the volunteer 'Dnipro Guard' (Varty Dnipra) in response to the war in Donbas, establishing a local defence force to support national security efforts. |
| 2014 | Began serving as Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. |
| September 2013 | Criticized by Mr Justice Mann in a London court case involving an attempted hostile takeover of JKX Oil and Gas Company in October 2010, with the judge noting Kolomoyskyi's reputation for aggressive business tactics. |
| March 2012 | Forbes placed Kolomoyskyi 377th globally with a net worth of $3 billion, and ranked him as the third richest person in Ukraine. |
| 2010 | Rumors begin circulating that Kolomoyskyi's assets are coming under pressure from Ukrainian authorities, and he starts spending more time in Switzerland. |
| 2010 | Rated as the second richest person in Ukraine and recognized as one of the country's most influential oligarchs. |
| April 2010 | Secured control of 1+1 Media Group for around $300 million through Harley Trading Limited, acquiring one of Ukraine's largest media conglomerates. |
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