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Kolomoiskyi detained on fraud and money-laundering suspicion

On 2 September 2023 Ukraine's Security Service charged Ihor Kolomoiskyi with fraud and money laundering after searching his home, alleging he laundered more than 500 million hryvnias between 2013 and 2020. The same day Kyiv's Shevchenkivskyi District Court ordered him held for 60 days, until 31 October, with bail set at about 509 million hryvnias.

Ihor Kolomoiskyi (Wikimedia Commons portrait; person avatar reused as fact cover, land-pack1 pattern).

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On 2 September 2023 Ukraine's Security Service charged Ihor Kolomoiskyi with fraud and money laundering after searching his home, alleging he laundered more than 500 million hryvnias between 2013 and 2020. The same day Kyiv's Shevchenkivskyi District Court ordered him held for 60 days, until 31 October, with bail set at about 509 million hryvnias.

Who was responsible

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  • Ihor Kolomoiskyi

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    Kolomoiskyi detained on fraud and money-laundering suspicion. Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.

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  1. 1.pravda.com.ua — sourcepravda.com.ua · verified
  2. 2.kyivindependent.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200 no redirect (b1v2 swap), claim: kolomoisk+fraud+launder · verified
  3. 3.aljazeera.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200 no redirect (b1v2 swap), claim: kolomoisk+fraud+launder · verified

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Factrail. (2026). Kolomoiskyi detained on fraud and money-laundering suspicion. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/kolomoiskyi-detained-fraud-money-laundering-2023-09-02

https://factrail.ai/facts/kolomoiskyi-detained-fraud-money-laundering-2023-09-02

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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