If Ihor Kolomoisky wants to buy Ukraine’s presidency, as his critics allege, can you really blame him?A lifelong “raider,” as he calls those skilled at exploiting opportunity, Kolomoisky in his youth ferried electronics from Moscow to Ukraine during the collapse of the Soviet Union—a train line once graced by robbers in leather jackets who snuffed out passengers for any
rubles they might have foolishly failed to hide. He started a tiny bank amid
the USSR’s
rubble: PrivatBank. It became the largest
in Ukraine because you invested in cutting-edge technology—and perhaps, if the
Ukrainian authorities are to be believed, a little bit of fraud. He survived
both …read more
Source: The New Republic
