In Russia, Kolomoyskyi and Bogolyubov were sentenced in absentia to 12 years in prison

The Almetyevsk City Court of the Republic of Tatarstan (Russian Federation) handed down a guilty verdict in absentia against four Ukrainian businessmen—former co-owners of PrivatBank, Ihor Kolomoyskyi and Hennadiy Boholyubov, former owner of “UkrSibbank” Oleksandr Yaroslavsky, and former head of “UkrTatNafta” Pavlo Ovcharenko. 

The court found them guilty of organizing a criminal organization and embezzling property on an especially large scale. 

According to the Russian investigation, between 2006 and 2007, the defendants, through an intermediary company, organized the delivery of oil produced by “Tatneft” with a total volume of 858,6 thousand metric tons to the storage tanks of the Kremenchug Oil Refinery (“UkrTatNafta”) in the Poltava region, after which they allegedly embezzled this raw material. The Russian side estimates the amount of damages at over 10 billion rubles. In addition to imprisonment in a maximum-security penal colony, a Russian court ordered the defendants to jointly pay 334 million U.S. dollars and to seize shares and assets of affiliated commercial entities valued at over 20 billion rubles (268 million dollars). It is reported that the verdict has not yet become final and will be appealed by the defense.

Sourse: The Moscow Times.

Earlier, businessmen Ihor Kolomoyskyi and Hennadiy Boholyubov were arrested in absentia in Russia. Kolomoyskyi is accused of embezzling assets from the company Tatneft and forming a criminal organization.

In 2024, former PrivatBank co-owner Gennady Bogolyubov, who had left Ukraine, was placed on Russia’s wanted list.

Rosfinmonitoring added 13 more names to its list of “extremists and terrorists,” including oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi.