Ukrainian oligarch and businessman Ihor Kolomoisky, majority owner among others of 1+1 Media, has been served with a third notice of suspicion, Ukrainska Pravda reports.

Serhii Leshchenko, adviser to the head of the Office of the President, wrote on Telegram that the Economic Security Bureau suspects the businessman of organizing the forgery of documents for the transfer of funds; organizing the taking of someone else's property by an organized group on a particularly large scale; and the acquisition and disposal of property in respect of which the actual circumstances indicate that it was obtained by criminal means.

The pre-trial investigation established that Kolomoisky organized and headed an organized group. It also included Serhii Volkov, the head of the Kyiv branch of PrivatBank and other officials from the Kyiv branch and PrivatBank’s head office.

Kolomoisky, as the organizer, and other group members hatched a plan of criminal activity aiming to seize PrivatBank's funds. It consisted of artificially making it look like cash was deposited on behalf of Kolomoisky at the cash desk of PrivatBank’s head office, accounting for it, registering the transport of the non-existent cash by collectors, and so on.

Artificial cash deposits on behalf of Kolomoisky took place from March 2013 to February 2014 in the total amount of UAH 5.878.000.000 (approx. US$153.472.584).

Kolomoisky faces up to 12 years in prison.