Law enforcement officers have served Ihor Kolomoisky with another suspicion of organizing a contract killing, the Prosecutor General’s Office reports.
“Under the procedural supervision of the Prosecutor General’s Office, a well-known businessman suspected of legalizing fraudulently obtained property was served with a notice of suspicion of committing another crime related to the organization of a contract killing (Part 4 of Article 27, Part 2 of Article 15, paragraphs 11, 12, Part 2 of Article 115 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine),” the Prosecutor General’s Office said in a statement on its Telegram channel on Wednesday.
It is reported that according to the investigation, the suspect, “acting on motives of personal revenge, ordered the murder of the director of a law firm for failure to fulfill the requirements for canceling and invalidating the decisions of the general meeting of shareholders of an open joint-stock company. To realize his criminal intentions, the suspect involved members of a gang that “specialized” in committing serious and especially serious crimes, including physical violence against competitors.”
The gang members attacked the director of a law firm, punching and stabbing him in the vital organs. “At the same time, this crime was not brought to an end for reasons that did not depend on the will of the gang members,” the Prosecutor General’s Office said in a statement.
According to MP of the VIII convocation Serhiy Leshchenko, it is “about Kolomoisky’s suspicion of an attempt on the life of lawyer Serhiy Karpenko for refusing to follow instructions in a corporate dispute over the Dniprospetsstal enterprise (Zaporizhzhia).”
According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, prosecutors and investigators are currently carrying out urgent investigative and procedural actions aimed at exposing all persons involved in the crime. The suspect is in custody.
The pre-trial investigation in the criminal proceedings is ongoing and is being carried out by investigators of the Main Department of the National Police of Ukraine with the operational support of the Criminal Investigation Department of the National Police of Ukraine.
