Ukrainian millionaire Igor Kolomoisky was charged with the murder of a lawyer due to a corporate dispute over Dneprospetsstal.

The assassination attempt was organized by Kolomoisky’s bodyguard

Let us note that this is an old case, and Leshchenko himself reported on it in 2015, while still a people’s deputy.

According to him, proceedings against Kolomoisky regarding the death of Karpenko were opened in 2005. The lawyer, according to Leshchenko, “crossed Kolomoisky’s path at the Dneprospetsstal plant.”

“Karpenko was summoned to Kolomoisky’s office, where he demanded that the lawyer replay the situation with the meeting of shareholders at Dneprospetsstal, which he refused. A few weeks later, an attempt was made first on Karpenko’s partner, and then on the lawyer himself. Sergei Karpenko miraculously survived attacking him with hammers, iron rods and knives.

It turned out that the assassination attempt was organized by Kolomoisky’s security guard named Nikitin, who did not live to see this revelation – he was found dead allegedly as a result of suicide, but after the exhumation of the grave, traces of violence were found on his body – many knife wounds,” the people’s deputy reported.

In the summer of 2005 (that is, two years after the murder), the resolution to initiate a case against Kolomoisky was endorsed by the then deputy prosecutor Victor Shokin. The case was led by investigator Sholodko (who died in 2014 while defending the Donetsk airport), who obtained a court sanction for Kolomoisky’s detention, but, according to Leshchenko, he soon withdrew the petition after the order of the Prosecutor General Svyatoslav Piskun (Leshchenko claims that Piskun received $50 million from Kolomoisky for this, which the ex-prosecutor general allegedly personally informed the oligarch about Victor Pinchukand he testified about this to the police).

After the case was opened in 2005, Kolomoisky left Ukraine. In Turkey, he testified in this case, meeting with an investigator from Ukraine. At the end of 2005, a court in the Dnipropetrovsk region closed the case against Kolomoisky with the wording “for lack of corpus delicti.”

Let us remind you that Kolomoisky has been in jail since September 2022.