{"id":"ihor-kolomoyskyi","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ihor-kolomoyskyi","language":"en","name":"Ihor Kolomoyskyi","name_en":"Ihor Kolomoyskyi","name_ne":null,"description":"Israeli and former Ukrainian businessman and politician","headline":"Israeli and former Ukrainian businessman and politician","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Ihor Valeriyovych Kolomoyskyi (Ukrainian: Ігор Валерійович Коломойський; Hebrew: איגור קולומויסקי; born 13 February 1963) is a Ukrainian-born Israeli billionaire businessman, once considered the leading oligarch in Ukraine.","summary_more":["Already an entrepreneur in the last years of Soviet Ukraine, in 2010 Kolomoyskyi was rated as the second richest person in Ukraine, and as one of the country's most influential oligarchs. In 1992, he co-founded PrivatBank and its informal stable of companies, Privat Group. He subsequently acquired extensive media holdings. From 2014 till 2015, Kolomoyskyi served as Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast until his dismissal by President Petro Poroshenko. In 2016, his undercapitalised bank was declared a threat to Ukraine's financial security and taken into state ownership. In 2019, Kolomoyskyi's media power and funding supported Volodymyr Zelenskyy's successful presidential campaign to unseat Poroshenko.","In 2020, he was indicted in the United States on charges related to large-scale bank fraud. In 2021, the U.S. banned Kolomoyskyi and his family from entering the country, accusing him of corruption and being a threat to the Ukrainian public's faith in democratic institutions. Zelenskyy reportedly stripped Kolomoyskyi of his Ukrainian citizenship in 2022. Later that same year, those of Kolomoyskyi's assets deemed to be of strategic value to the state in light of the Russian invasion were nationalised. These included Ukraine's largest gasoline companies. In 2023, Kolomoyskyi was arrested by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) on charges of money laundering and fraud, and placed under pre-trial arrest."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"13 February 1963","date":"1963-02-13"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1626421#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Dnipro","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48256"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1626421#P19"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Ukraine","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212","start":"1991","end":"2022-07"},{"text":"Israel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q801"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1626421#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"businessperson","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43845"},{"text":"banker","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q806798"},{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"},{"text":"entrepreneur","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131524"},{"text":"governor","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q132050"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1626421#P106"}},{"key":"party","label":"Political party","values":[{"text":"UKROP","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20726384"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1626421#P102"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q94192"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1626421#P69"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29017281","date":"2006-08-19"},{"text":"Registered firearms","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4200240"},{"text":"Medal \"For sacrifice and love of Ukraine\"","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25436817","date":"2015-03-28"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1626421#P166"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1626421"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Ihor Kolomoyskyi born?","a":"Ihor Kolomoyskyi was born on 13 February 1963 in Dnipro."},{"q":"Where did Ihor Kolomoyskyi study?","a":"Ihor Kolomoyskyi was educated at National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine."}],"related":[{"name":"Yochanan Vollach","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/yochanan-vollach"},{"name":"Bar Refaeli","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bar-refaeli"},{"name":"Avi Arad","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/avi-arad"},{"name":"Zecharia Sitchin","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/zecharia-sitchin"},{"name":"Roy Cohn","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/roy-cohn"},{"name":"Nir Barkat","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/nir-barkat"},{"name":"Theodore Bikel","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/theodore-bikel"},{"name":"Ron Huldai","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ron-huldai"},{"name":"Semion Mogilevich","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/semion-mogilevich"},{"name":"Arnon Milchan","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/arnon-milchan"},{"name":"Eliyahu M. 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This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Ihor Kolomoyskyi2.jpg — Andriy Bashtovyy / RFE/RL, Public domain.","cite":"\"Ihor Kolomoyskyi\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/ihor-kolomoyskyi. Retrieved 7 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T09:28:17Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-07","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/ihor-kolomoyskyi","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/ihor-kolomoyskyi","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/ihor-kolomoyskyi?lang=ne"}}