FinCEN leak lifts the lid on Ukrainian corruption

RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS - In Brief 25 Sep 2020 by Alex Teddy
The files showed that Barclays Bank transferred money for Ukrainian billionaire Rinat Akhmetov. This was despite filing Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) about it. Akhmetov is now the main bankroller of the Servant of the People - the party of Zelensky. Over USD 2 billion was transacted for for Akhmetov from 2009 to 2015 when Barclays ended its relationship with him.Deutsche Bank transferred USD 490 million from 2007-13 for Ihor Kolomoisky and his business partner Hennady Boholybov. The money was sent to Delaware. The two bought residences and factories there. They owned much of Cleveland. Most of these houses and steel mills have been abandoned. Some of the businesses they ran have gone bankrupt.Akhmetov owned coal mines in the US were given federal loans even though his mines made a profit of over USD 1 billion in 2019.Kolomoisky is the subject of lawsuits in the US. He allegedly bought his property there with the profits of embezzlement from PrivatBank.

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