The censor writes, citing data from the ministry’s database, that the State Migration Service of Ukraine determined the passport of Ukrainian businessman Igor Kolomoisky as invalid.
According to media reports, Kolomoisky’s passport details are included in the archive minutes of the Privatbank shareholders’ meeting. When you try to check from the department’s database, the system gives the following answer. document marked as invalid.
The day before (July 24), Kolomoisky’s passport was listed as valid, citing a source, according to the Ukrainian edition of Forbes.
Deprivation of citizenship occurs in the case of voluntary acquisition by a citizen of the country of which he is a citizen of another state, acquiring Ukrainian citizenship due to fraud, in the case of voluntary entry into the country, according to the Law of Ukraine “On Citizenship”. military service of another state.
In addition to Ukrainian Kolomoisky, Cypriot and Israeli passports. He explained why in his view this was not a violation: “The law prohibits dual citizenship, but not triple citizenship.”
According to the Ukrainian edition of Forbes magazine, Kolomoisky’s fortune is estimated at $ 1.8 billion.
Who else was deprived of a passport
On July 20, Ukrainska Pravda, citing sources, reported that Kolomoisky could be deprived of Ukrainian citizenship, as well as the Opposition Platform – Vadym Rabinovich and its head, co-chairman of the For Life party, which was banned in Ukraine in March 2022. Territorial defense of the Dnepropetrovsk region, Gennady Korban. At the same time, a photo of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s allegedly classified decree along with a list of people deprived of citizenship entered the network. There were 10 people on the list, including Kolomoisky..
The document was not signed by the head of state. The published photo of the decree was commented on by the deputy of the Ukrainian parliament Yaroslav Zheleznyak.
“The weirdest detail so far is that the date on that screen is July 18. We were going to vote in the Rada on July 18 and 19. And in this letter there are deputies of two people. So of course anything is possible, but it still looks very strange.”
Igor Vasilkovsky, a deputy from the Servant of the People party, dismissed the possibility of Zelensky signing such a document.
But on July 22, Gennady Korban said that he tried to enter Ukraine from Poland, but border guards confiscated his Ukrainian passport and did not allow him to enter the country. Korban stated that I could not enter neither with a military ID, nor with the Diya application (a local analogue of public services).
“I can no longer enter with any documents: neither a military ID nor a Staple. I’m actually stuck here in the border area. Lawyers are now solving this, because it is not clear by what document, for example, I can return to Poland, ”said the lawyer.
The border guards issued a law stating that Korban was stateless, citing a presidential decree on the cessation of citizenship. However, no documents have been published so far.
“Such a decision has been discussed, but we have decided not to do it yet,” a source from the leaders of the Servant of the People faction told Forbes.
Grounds for naturalization
On July 20, Rada deputy Alexei Goncharenko reported that his former deputy Yevgeny Muraev and Vadim Rabinovich would soon be accused of treason.
It is known that on the second day after the start of the military operation, Muraev wrote on social networks that Ukraine should surrender to Russia, but later deleted his post. In January 2022, the British Foreign Office claimed that Moscow was striving to bring Muraev to power in Ukraine.
In early July, a draft law on deprivation of citizenship for treason was presented to the Verkhovna Rada. The document entitled “On Amending Article 111 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code on the deprivation of Ukrainian citizenship for treason” was launched by the deputy of the Servant of the People party, Serhiy Kuzminykh.
In addition, the Rada proposed that those responsible for military service who left the country and did not return within 30 days should be deprived of Ukrainian citizenship. However, none of these documents have been enacted yet.