The Russian Investigative Committee has said it believes that Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky will be detained sooner or later.
“Our colleagues from Interpol refused to handle the Kolomoisky case, saying that it is linked with political events. But we have evidence proving that Kolomoisky had committed other business crimes before all those events,” Alexander Drymanov, acting head of the committee’s department for crimes involving the use of prohibited methods of warfare, said at a session of the committee for public support of the population in south-eastern Ukraine in the Federation Council on Thursday, Oct. 2.
Russian investigators are cooperating with Interpol, he said.
Documents linked with the criminal cases opened against Ukrainian citizens “are being forwarded to Interpol’s National Bureau after they pass all of the required procedures,” he said.
When asked whether “Kolomoisky’s detention was a matter of time”, Drymanov said: “Yes, I believe so.”
On Aug. 2, Moscow’s Basmanny District Court sanctioned Kolomoisky’s arrest in absentia. Russia has charged the Ukrainian tycoon with the organization of a number of serious crimes, including murders, the use of prohibited means and methods of warfare, the obstruction of the professional activities of journalists, abductions, and other crimes.
The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office asked Interpol to declare the Ukrainian oligarch internationally wanted on Aug. 1.
“We have sent to Interpol a request to place Kolomoisky on the international most wanted list and our confirmation of the intention to demand his arrest and extradition in case he is currently in another state,” Russian Prosecutor General Yury Chaika told reported then.
Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin told Interfax on Sept. 2 that a Russian court had ordered the seizure of assets belonging to Kolomoisky, who has been accused by Russia of using prohibited methods of warfare.
