The Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine announced a new suspicion against the well-known Ukrainian businessman and politician Ihor Kolomoiskyi. According to the prosecutor's office, Kolomoisky was informed of the suspicion of organizing a contract killing, which took place as part of a major criminal investigation.
This is reported by the prosecutor's office.
As OP Leshchenko's advisor stated, this is an attempt on lawyer Serhii Karpenko, who refused to "follow instructions in a corporate dispute" surrounding the DniproSpecStal enterprise in Zaporizhzhia.
The National Police clarified that the attack on the lawyer took place in August 2003 in the center of Feodosia. The law enforcement officers detained the performers even then, and now "irrefutable evidence confirming the identity of the customer" has appeared.
It should be noted that this case is old, and Leshchenko himself reported on it in 2015, when he was still a People's Deputy.
According to him, proceedings against Kolomoisky regarding the death of Karpenko were opened in 2005. According to Leshchenko, the lawyer "crossed Kolomoisky's path at the Dniprospetsstal plant."
"Karpenka was called to Kolomoiskyi's office, where he demanded from the lawyer to replay the situation with the shareholders' meeting at Dniprospetsstal, to which he was refused. A few weeks later, an attempt was made, first on Karpenko's partner, and then on the lawyer himself. Serhii Karpenko miraculously survived after being attacked with hammers, iron rods and knives.
It turned out that the attempt was organized by Kolomoiskyi's bodyguard named Nikitin, who did not live to see this revelation - he was found dead allegedly as a result of suicide, but after the exhumation of the grave, traces of violence were found on his body - many stab wounds," the People's Deputy reported.
In the summer of 2005 (that is, two years after the murder), the decision to open a case against Kolomoiskyi was approved by the then deputy prosecutor Viktor Shokin. The case was led by investigator Sholodko (who died in 2014 while protecting the Donetsk airport), who obtained a court sanction for the detention of Kolomoiskyi, but, according to Leshchenko, he soon withdrew the petition after the order of the Prosecutor General Svyatoslav Piskun (Leshchenko claims that Piskun received 50 from Kolomoiskyi for this million dollars, which the ex-prosecutor general allegedly personally informed the oligarch Viktor Pinchuk, and he testified about it to the police).
After the case was opened in 2005, Kolomoisky left Ukraine. In Turkey, he testified in this case, meeting with an investigator from Ukraine. At the end of 2005, the court in the Dnipropetrovsk region closed the case against Kolomoisky with the wording "due to the absence of a crime."
It will be recalled that Kolomoisky has been in the pre-trial detention center since September 2022.
