The principal shareholder in Cyprus-based Mansvell Enterprises, the holding company of two Swedish airlines Skyways and City Airlines, which are acquiring a 70% stake in Danish Cimber Sterling airline, is Ukrainian businessman and co-owner of the largest bank in Ukraine PrivatBank – Ihor Kolomoisky, according to a presentation of the Cimber board chairman at an extraordinary general meeting of the company's shareholders held on Friday.
The presentation says that Kolomoisky also has interests in the Ukrainian aviation through shareholdings in AeroSvit and Dniproavia.
He is also a majority shareholder in some Portuguese leasing companies.
Earlier Danish newspaper Borsen has reported that Kolomoisky, whom they call the “mystery Ukrainian billionaire,” is buying Danish low-cost carrier Cimber Sterling.
The newspaper’s sources in the Danish government claim that the billionaire plans to join Cimber Sterling with another low-cost carrier, Swedish Skyways, which he bought in December.
In December, it was widely reported that Kolomoisky bought struggling Swedish low-cost carrier Skyways. The official new owner is Manswell Enterprises Limited, a Cyprus company which is said to be owned by Kolomoisky.
