Employees of the State Bureau of Investigation have served a notice of suspicion to former Privatbank co-owner Hennadiy Boholyubov and a border guard who assisted him in illegally crossing the border.
This was reported by the SBI press service.
The head of one of the groups of border control inspectors of the Yahodyn Border Guard Service Inspectorate was detained.
The investigation found that the oligarch, accompanied by his close relative, left on 24 June 2024 by the Kyiv-Helm train, although according to Ukrainian databases, he did not cross the border. It has also been established that Boholyubov left the country using an invalid passport of a citizen of Ukraine who did not physically leave the country.
It has also been confirmed that the detained law enforcement officer handed over the passengers' documents to his subordinate and assured him that he had already personally checked the compartment where Boholyubov and his relative were travelling.
The oligarch presented the Polish border guards with his personal passport of a citizen of Ukraine for travelling abroad.
The oligarch and the law enforcement officer were notified of suspicion of illegal trafficking of persons across the state border (part 2 of Article 332 of the Criminal Code). Boholyubov was also served a notice of suspicion of illegal possession of a passport (Article 357(3) of the Criminal Code). The sanction of the article provides for punishment in the form of imprisonment for up to 7 years.
A custodial detention was imposed on the border guard with an alternative of bail in the amount of UAH 25 million.
Who is Hennadiy Boholyubov?
- In the 90s, Boholyubov, together with Ihor Kolomoyskyy, co-founded the largest bank in Ukraine, Privatbank. As of 2021, Boholyubov was ranked 5th in the Forbes ranking of the richest people. At that time, his wealth was estimated at $1.7 billion.
- Kolomoyskyy and Boholyubov directly or indirectly owned more than 91.5% of Privatbank's shares. The rest belonged to minority shareholders, including the management led by Chairman of the Board Oleksandr Dubilet.
- After the nationalisation of Privatbank, Bogolyubov and Kolomoyskyy became the subject of numerous legal investigations related to the withdrawal of funds from the bank and other financial fraud.