London's High Court will force Kolomoisky to uncork champagne
The High Court of London on Friday will make another decision on the claim of the state-owned PrivatBank (Kyiv) against its former owners Igor Kolomoisky and Gennady Bogolyubov, as well as companies associated with them, according to the court summons. The meeting is scheduled for 10:30 London time (12:30 Kyiv time - Ed.), a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
People's Deputy Sergei Leshchenko reported this in his microblog on Telegram, according to whom the High Court of London decided that it did not have jurisdiction over the relevant claim.
“Igor Kolomoisky can celebrate. The High Court in London decided that it did not have jurisdiction over the PrivatBank case, reliable sources report,” he wrote.
According to the deputy, the High Court’s refusal to consider this claim means that the seizures of the assets of Kolomoisky and Bogolyubov will be lifted, as well as the previously introduced limit on expenses in the amount of no more than 20 thousand pounds sterling per week.
In addition, Leshchenko suggests that it is very likely that the case brought by the nationalized PrivatBank against Kolomoisky and Bogolyubov in the London court will be closed.
“Kolomoisky and Bogolyubov based their strategy on the fact that they did not live in London. And if this is true in relation to Kolomoisky, who until recently lived in Geneva and has now moved to Israel, then Bogolyubov was a resident of Great Britain for many years. However, in order to escape from British jurisdiction under the claims of PrivatBank nationalized by Ukraine and former partner Vadim Shulman, Bogolyubov moved from Great Britain to Switzerland and divorced his wife,” Leshchenko wrote.
As reported, the Kroll company, attracted by the Ukrainian authorities in 2017, based on the results of a forensic audit of PrivatBank, stated that the financial institution, before its nationalization at the end of 2016, was the subject of large-scale and coordinated fraudulent activities, which led to losses of at least $5,5 billion.
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