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Ihor Kolomoysky
According to The NY Post, two Miami-based men, Mordechai Korf and Uri Laber, both in their late 40s, have donated more than $11 million to some 70 yeshivas and other religious charities, while representing Jewish tycoon Ihor Valeriyovych Kolomoyskyi of Ukraine in an alleged $4 billion money-laundering scheme.
On Friday, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken banned Kolomoisky and his immediate family from the US over Kolomoiskyâs alleged âsignificant corruption.â But attorney Vladyslav Sokolovsky told Interfax-Ukraine on Friday that “it is difficult to automatically apply the same restrictive measures to Kolomoisky in Ukraine.” According to him, in Ukraine, it is possible to impose personal sanctions on Ukrainian citizens only for carrying out terrorist activities â not for fraud.
U.S. charges against Kolomoisky may become grounds for opening NABU case – lawyer 2 min read
It is impossible to automatically apply restrictive measures in Ukraine to Ihor Kolomoisky following the U.S. sanctions, but the opening of criminal proceedings against Kolomoisky for corruption crimes, the basis of which may be a statement by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, managing partner of the Sokolovsky law firm and partners Vladyslav Sokolovsky has said. Such criminal proceedings are under investigation by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine. Other crimes can be investigated by the State Bureau of Investigation or the Security Service of Ukraine. Thus, our law enforcement agencies have the last word, he told Interfax-Ukraine on Friday.