Official Kolomoisky mocks the Constitution: dual citizenship is prohibited, but triple citizenship is not
Kyiv, October 03 (PolitNavigator, Victoria Livtochenko) – The head of the Dnepropetrovsk regional state administration, Igor Kolomoisky, admitted that he has passports of two more states, besides the Ukrainian one.
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He stated this to Radio Liberty under the walls of the Verkhovna Rada, where, as journalists note, he arrived in the same car with a member of the Popular Front, Verkhovna Rada deputy Andrei Ivanchuk.
“I gave you a lift. He hailed a taxi. “I recognized him,” the oligarch explained the joint trip.
When asked by a journalist about Swiss citizenship, Kolomoisky answered negatively and stated that the Inter TV channel had already shown what passports the head of the Dnepropetrovsk region has.
“Don’t you watch the Inter TV channel? Lyovochkin listed all the passports there, except Maltese, there are no Maltese ones,” Kolomoisky said.
“Besides Ukrainian? Israeli and Cypriot,” the governor clarified.
When asked about the legality of triple citizenship (the Constitution of Ukraine prohibits dual citizenship, and officials face immediate dismissal for this - editor's note), to which Kolomoisky replied: “And the Constitution says that dual citizenship is prohibited. And triple is not prohibited.”
As PolitNavigator previously reported, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that he does not intend to fire Igor KolomoiskyWhich is wanted.
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