Oligarch Ihor Kolomoiskyi is suspected of organizing a scheme involving the forgery of banking documents, the misappropriation of funds on an especially large scale, and their subsequent laundering.
According to the investigation, in 2013–2014 he used controlled bank employees to record fictitious cash deposits that had never actually been made, enabling him to acquire UAH 5.8 billion. The funds, booked as non-cash money, were then used in his businesses, moved abroad, and converted into cash.
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The defense repeatedly argued that the case fell within NABU's investigative jurisdiction and HACC's trial jurisdiction. However, the Prosecutor General resolved the jurisdictional dispute in favor of the ESBU. As a result, the case has not been heard at the HACC, and the indictment has already been referred to the Podilskyi District Court of Kyiv.
