FLASHBACK 2019: Radio Free Europe Reports On "Zelensky's Oligarch Connection"
U.S. state-backed media outlet Radio Free Europe ran this interesting piece in 2019 about Ukrainian–Israeli–Cypriot banker Igor Kolomoyskyi's connections to then-actor Volodymyr Zelensky's presidential campaign.Kolomoysky owned the TV channel that produced "Servant Of The People," a series in which Zelensky played the fictional president of Ukraine, and later bankrolled the creation of a political party of the same name which put Zelensky in the president's office for real.
See also via the U.S. State Department (March 2021): Public Designation of Oligarch and Former Ukrainian Public Official Ihor Kolomoyskyy Due to Involvement in Significant Corruption
Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called Zelensky "Kolomoysky's puppet."
NY Post reports: Hunter Biden’s Ukraine contact allegedly a ‘fixer’ for shady oligarch [Igor Kolomoysky] - The Bond villain-like Kolomoisky, 57, reportedly kept a live shark in a huge tank in his office.
The Post also reported: "Since 2014, four journalists have uncovered links between the myriad offshore companies that are part of Burisma Holdings and Ukraine’s most powerful, ruthless oligarch, Igor Kolomoisky. Shrouded in secrecy, Burisma has been described as 'a big shell company network of a classic British kind, with ownership and control completely obfuscated.'"
During a call with Radio Free Europe in this interview, Kolomoysky lied about the number of times he met Zelensky.
"The aspiring politician says it is not political," RFE reports.
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Ukrainian presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskiy is campaigning as an outsider who will clean up politics, but he's backed by one of the country's richest men.
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