A data leak from the Swiss bank Credit Suisse indicates that it has multimillion-dollar accounts of 2.5 thousand Ukrainians, including Igor Kolomoisky, Rinat Akhmetov, Pavel Fuks, Roman Nasirov and Pavel Lazarenko.
2.5 thousand Ukrainians, including Igor Kolomoisky, Rinat Akhmetov, Pavel Fuks, Roman Nasirov and Pavel Lazarenko, turned out to be clients of the Swiss bank Credit Suisse. According to Slidstvo.Info, such information is contained in data called SuisseSecrets, which cover more than 18 thousand accounts for more than $100 billion opened over the past 70 years.
Thus, the oligarch Rinat Akhmetov mostly shared his accounts with top managers of the management company of his business group, SCM. In total, journalists found more than 50 bank accounts with them, the balance of one of which reached 497 million francs in 2016.
SCM’s lawyers explained that Akhmetov’s accounts were directly related to his business.
Igor Kolomoisky had one account in his name, which contained more than 27 million Swiss francs. And another bill in the names of his mother, wife and daughter. This account had a balance of over 3 billion francs in 2007.
Kolomoisky himself explained these accounts by selling shares in the international metallurgical and mining company Evraz.
Businessman Pavel Fuks became a client of Credit Suisse in 2014. A year later, 17 million francs lay on his account. By the time of publication, the businessman had not commented on the bill.
Oleg Bakhmatyuk, the owner of the large agricultural holding UkrLandFarming, had about ten accounts, one of which totaled more than 200 million francs in 2008. Representatives of Bakhmatyuk, on behalf of UkrLandFarming, called these accounts “cash balances in the company’s account, to which no shareholder has access.”
Ex-Chairman of the Security Service Valery Khoroshkovsky had three bills. He was a client of Credit Suisse in 2004, 2006 and 2007. One of Khoroshkovsky’s accounts was worth at least 1 billion francs when Khoroshkovsky left the Russian mining and steel company Evraz-Group and became deputy secretary of the Security and Defense Council. His other account existed in the same year, when Khoroshkovsky headed the Ukrainian customs, and then went to work in the SBU.
Khoroshkovsky himself denied this information. “I did not have a single account in the specified bank during this period. I think that’s all, ”he said in a comment to reporters.
The former head of the State Fiscal Service during 2015-2018, Roman Nasirov, had an account with Credit Suisse, on which 699 thousand francs appeared in 2010 in a few months.
At the time of publication, journalists did not receive Nasirov’s comment.
The data also included the accounts of former Prime Minister Pavel Lazarenko. Which the World Bank in 2007 included in the top ten most corrupt leaders in the world.
Lazarenko’s name as owner or co-owner appears on two accounts opened in 1997. And according to the data received by journalists, both accounts were valid as of 2003, when the official investigation into Lazarenko in the USA and Switzerland was ongoing.
He shared the first account with his closest adviser and comrade Peter Kirichenko. In 2003, this account totaled more than 7 million francs.
On the second account in 2003 there were more than 45 thousand francs.