{"id":230828,"date":"2022-07-20T15:19:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T19:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/z3news.com\/w\/?p=230828"},"modified":"2022-07-24T19:20:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T23:20:27","slug":"how-corrupt-is-ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelensky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/z3news.com\/w\/how-corrupt-is-ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelensky\/","title":{"rendered":"How Corrupt is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky?"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p>Before the Russian invasion, CIA reports linked him to an oligarch so dirty and so mired in \u201csignificant corruption\u201d that the State Department banned him from entering the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>But now CIA propaganda portrays Zelensky as nobler than Winston Churchill and saintlier than Mother Theresa.<\/p>\n<p>Will the Real Volodymyr Zelensky Please Stand Up<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, the CIA-run Radio Free Europe reported on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s connection to Ihor Kholomoisky, a Ukrainian oligarch whom the State Department banned from entering the U.S. in March 2021 due to his \u201csignificant corruption.\u201d See video report below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Zelenskiy&#039;s Oligarch Connection\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MXgli7TpINw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This report is ironic given that, since Ukraine\u2019s war with Russia began over four months ago, Radio Free Europe along with the rest of the Western media has depicted Zelensky as something equivalent to a reincarnation of Winston Churchill and Mother Teresa, driving a campaign for his nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize and inspiring a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grammy.com\/news\/ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelensky-speech-2022-grammys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">flamboyant musical tribute<\/a>\u00a0during the 2022 Grammy awards.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40462\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covertactionmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-grammys-zelenskys-video-address-and-other-j.jpeg?resize=696%2C386&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covertactionmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-grammys-zelenskys-video-address-and-other-j.jpeg?w=1431&amp;ssl=1 1431w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covertactionmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-grammys-zelenskys-video-address-and-other-j.jpeg?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covertactionmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-grammys-zelenskys-video-address-and-other-j.jpeg?resize=1024%2C569&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covertactionmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-grammys-zelenskys-video-address-and-other-j.jpeg?resize=768%2C427&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covertactionmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-grammys-zelenskys-video-address-and-other-j.jpeg?resize=150%2C83&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covertactionmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-grammys-zelenskys-video-address-and-other-j.jpeg?resize=696%2C385&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covertactionmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-grammys-zelenskys-video-address-and-other-j.jpeg?resize=1068%2C593&amp;ssl=1 1068w\" alt=\"2022 Grammys: Zelensky's video address and other Jewish moments - Jewish Telegraphic Agency\" width=\"696\" height=\"386\" data-attachment-id=\"40462\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/covertactionmagazine.com\/2022\/07\/20\/how-corrupt-is-ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelensky\/2022-grammys-zelenskys-video-address-and-other-j\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covertactionmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-grammys-zelenskys-video-address-and-other-j.jpeg?fit=1431%2C795&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1431,795\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2022-grammys-zelenskys-video-address-and-other-j\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covertactionmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-grammys-zelenskys-video-address-and-other-j.jpeg?fit=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covertactionmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-grammys-zelenskys-video-address-and-other-j.jpeg?fit=696%2C387&amp;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption>Zelensky gives a video address at the 2022 Grammy awards in April. [Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2022\/04\/04\/culture\/2022-grammys-zelenskys-video-address-and-other-jewish-moments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">jta.org<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Steering One of the Biggest Ponzi Schemes in World History<\/h2>\n<p>Meanwhile in January 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/united-states-files-civil-forfeiture-complaint-proceeds-alleged-fraud-and-theft-privatbank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">civil forfeiture complaint<\/a>\u2014the fourth against him\u2014which alleges that Kholomoisky and Gennadiy Bogolyubov, who owned PrivatBank, one of the largest banks in Ukraine, embezzled and defrauded the bank of $5.5 billion which went missing.<\/p>\n<p>The two allegedly obtained fraudulent loans and lines of credit from 2008 through 2016 and laundered portions of their criminal proceeds using an array of shell companies\u2019 bank accounts, primarily at PrivatBank\u2019s Cyprus branch, before they transferred the funds to the U.S. where they continued to launder them illegally through an associate operating out of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/johnhelmer.online\/a-good-nights-rest-in-cleveland-ohio-igor-kolomoisky-has-been-secretly-investing-in-midwest-real-estate-and-in-kentucky-texas-florida-too\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">offices in Miami<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40463\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covertactionmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/word-image-40458-3.png?resize=559%2C587&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covertactionmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/word-image-40458-3.png?w=559&amp;ssl=1 559w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covertactionmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/word-image-40458-3.png?resize=286%2C300&amp;ssl=1 286w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covertactionmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/word-image-40458-3.png?resize=150%2C158&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covertactionmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/word-image-40458-3.png?resize=300%2C315&amp;ssl=1 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"587\" data-attachment-id=\"40463\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/covertactionmagazine.com\/2022\/07\/20\/how-corrupt-is-ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelensky\/word-image-40458-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covertactionmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/word-image-40458-3.png?fit=559%2C587&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"559,587\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"word-image-40458-3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covertactionmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/word-image-40458-3.png?fit=286%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covertactionmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/word-image-40458-3.png?fit=559%2C587&amp;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption>[Source:<a href=\"http:\/\/johnhelmer.org\/the-kolomoisky-pyramid-started-with-hillary-clinton-and-victoria-nuland-of-the-state-department-plus-christine-lagarde-of-the-imf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u00a0johnhelmer.org<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Some of the stolen money was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/johnhelmer.org\/the-kolomoisky-pyramid-started-with-hillary-clinton-and-victoria-nuland-of-the-state-department-plus-christine-lagarde-of-the-imf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">from IMF loans granted to the Ukrainian government after the 2014 Maidan coup, which was paid out by the National Bank of Ukraine into Privatbank<\/a>.<sup><a id=\"post-40458-footnote-ref-0\" href=\"https:\/\/covertactionmagazine.com\/2022\/07\/20\/how-corrupt-is-ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelensky\/#post-40458-footnote-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>According to a profile in\u00a0<em>The American Spectator<\/em>, Kholomoisky laundered millions in Cleveland, Ohio, and across the Midwest where, as \u201cone of the [region\u2019s] biggest real-estate landlords,\u201d he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/who-is-ihor-kolomoisky-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201csteered one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in world history.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Making Even Other Oligarchs, No Strangers to Violent Crime, Blanch<\/h2>\n<p>Born in Soviet Ukraine in 1963, Kholomoisky was among those to benefit after the Soviet collapse in the early 1990s from the sale of formerly state-owned enterprises like steel plants and gas wells at fire-sale prices.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<em>The American Spectator<\/em>, Kholomoisky had two advantages over other nascent oligarchs. First, he had a background in metallurgy\u2014in the science of making and molding metals and alloys in demand. Second, Kholomoisky\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/who-is-ihor-kolomoisky-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cdisplayed a ruthlessness that made even other oligarchs, no strangers to violent crime, blanch.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A writer for\u00a0<em>Forbes<\/em>\u00a0magazine reported that, in one instance, he saw \u201chundreds of hired rowdies armed with baseball bats, iron bars, gas and rubber-bullet pistols and chainsaws forcibly [take] over\u201d a steel plant that Kholomoisky eyed.<\/p>\n<p>For the full Bond-villain effect, Kholomoisky put a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/who-is-ihor-kolomoisky-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">shark tank in his office<\/a>. Allegedly, he was not averse to shoving the head of a visitor in it as a reminder never to cross him.<\/p>\n<h2>A Jew Funding Neo-Nazis<\/h2>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/159168-kiev-businessman-massacre-mariupol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Oleg Noginsky, the president of the Suppliers Customs Union, after Ukraine\u2019s February 2014 Euro-Maidan Revolution, Kholomoisky \u201chired the guys who carried out the Odessa massacre\u201d\u2014<\/a>the killing of several dozen supporters of deposed Russian-allied President Viktor Yanukovych who were holed up in a trade union building.<\/p>\n<p>As Governor of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dnipropetrovsk_Oblast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dnipropetrovsk Oblast<\/a>\u00a0from 2014 until\u00a02016, Kholomoisky bankrolled anti-Russian units operating with the Ukrainian army in Donetsk and Luhansk\u2014which voted to secede after the post-Maidan government tried to impose the Ukrainian language on them.<\/p>\n<p>These units included the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/3\/1\/who-are-the-azov-regiment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">neo-Nazi Azov Battalion<\/a>\u00a0which terrorized the people of eastern Ukraine, along with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/3\/1\/who-are-the-azov-regiment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the Dnipro and Aidar battalions<\/a>, which were sometimes deployed as personal thug squads to protect Kholomoisky\u2019s financial interests.<\/p>\n<h2>Burisma and the CIA<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/03\/06\/businessmen-accused-of-ukraine-money-laundering-gave-millions-to-ny-charities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The<em>\u00a0New York Post<\/em>\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0that Kholomoisky had a \u201ccontrolling interest\u201d in Burisma Holdings\u2014the Ukrainian energy company which employed Hunter Biden as a board member for $50,000 per month. Russian media, quoted in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsgac.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/Report%20documents.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">State Department emails<\/a>, referred to Burisma as \u201cpart of Kholomoisky\u2019s financial empire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Six months after Hunter Biden departed,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cofer_Black\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Burisma appointed Cofer Black to its board<\/a>\u2014a position that he maintains. Black was a career CIA officer who served as director of the CIA\u2019s Counterterrorism Center following the September 11 attacks.<\/p>\n<p>This appointment raises questions as to whether Burisma served as a CIA-front operation that was designed to help finance the anti-Russia militias in eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40467\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covertactionmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/trumps-biden-ukraine-natural-gas-conspiracy-theor.jpeg?resize=696%2C529&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covertactionmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/trumps-biden-ukraine-natural-gas-conspiracy-theor.jpeg?w=891&amp;ssl=1 891w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covertactionmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/trumps-biden-ukraine-natural-gas-conspiracy-theor.jpeg?resize=300%2C228&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covertactionmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/trumps-biden-ukraine-natural-gas-conspiracy-theor.jpeg?resize=768%2C584&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covertactionmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/trumps-biden-ukraine-natural-gas-conspiracy-theor.jpeg?resize=150%2C114&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covertactionmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/trumps-biden-ukraine-natural-gas-conspiracy-theor.jpeg?resize=696%2C529&amp;ssl=1 696w\" alt=\"Trump's Biden-Ukraine natural gas conspiracy theory: False, but alive\" width=\"696\" height=\"529\" data-attachment-id=\"40467\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/covertactionmagazine.com\/2022\/07\/20\/how-corrupt-is-ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelensky\/trumps-biden-ukraine-natural-gas-conspiracy-theor\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covertactionmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/trumps-biden-ukraine-natural-gas-conspiracy-theor.jpeg?fit=891%2C677&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"891,677\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"trumps-biden-ukraine-natural-gas-conspiracy-theor\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covertactionmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/trumps-biden-ukraine-natural-gas-conspiracy-theor.jpeg?fit=300%2C228&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covertactionmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/trumps-biden-ukraine-natural-gas-conspiracy-theor.jpeg?fit=696%2C529&amp;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption>[Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/in-depth\/news\/world\/2019\/10\/10\/trumps-biden-ukraine-natural-gas-conspiracy-theory-false-but-alive\/3851728002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">usatoday.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Ihor and Volodymyr Sitting in a Tree\u2026<\/h2>\n<p>Kholomoisky\u2019s relationship with Zelensky goes back to around 2012, when Zelensky and his partners in a television production company, Kvartal 95, began making regular content for TV stations owned by Kholomoisky.<\/p>\n<p>A comedian and actor who had been famous since the 2000s, Zelensky began his political rise a few years after taking on a starring role in the political satire \u201cServant of the People,\u201d which began airing on Kholomoisky\u2019s network in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The show starred Zelensky as a humble history teacher whose anti-corruption rant in class is filmed by a student, goes viral online, and wins him national office.<\/p>\n<p>In a case of life imitating art, Zelensky ended up winning the real-world Ukrainian presidency just three-and-a-half years after the show\u2019s launch, with more than 73% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky capitalized on widespread public anger at corruption, but his 2019 campaign was dogged by doubts over his anti-graft bona fides given his connection to Kholomoisky.<\/p>\n<p>In the heat of the campaign, an ally of incumbent Petro Poroshenko, Volodymyr Ariev, published a chart on Facebook purporting to show that Zelensky and his television production partners were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.occrp.org\/en\/the-pandora-papers\/pandora-papers-reveal-offshore-holdings-of-ukrainian-president-and-his-inner-circle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">beneficiaries of a web of offshore firms, which they had set up beginning in 2012, that allegedly received $41 million in funds from Kholomoisky\u2019s Privatbank<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ariev did not provide smoking-gun evidence, though the Pandora Papers\u201411.9 million leaked documents published by a consortium of investigative journalists in October 2021\u2014show that at least some of the details in this alleged scheme correspond to reality.<\/p>\n<p>In specific, the Pandora Papers reveal information on ten companies in the network that match structures detailed in Ariev\u2019s chart, and show that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.occrp.org\/en\/the-pandora-papers\/pandora-papers-reveal-offshore-holdings-of-ukrainian-president-and-his-inner-circle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Zelensky and his partners used companies based in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), Belize and Cyprus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Forbes\u00a0<\/em>magazine currently places\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mattdurot\/2022\/04\/20\/president-zelensky-is-not-a-billionaire-so-how-much-is-he-worth\/?sh=4232536e5bb0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Zelensky\u2019s net worth at between $20 and $30 million<\/a>\u2014a total he could not have earned simply as a TV performer and comedian.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky allegedly owns lavish properties in central London, Italy and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eprimefeed.com\/latest-news\/zelensky-found-a-billion-dollars-and-a-villa-in-miami\/19891\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Miami Beach<\/a>\u2014to which he could retire if he is forced to flee Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Two of Zelensky\u2019s associates in the offshore network, who were also part of his TV production company, have held powerful positions in his government. Serhiy Shefir is Zelensky\u2019s top presidential aide, while Ivan Bakanov headed until very recently the feared Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), which is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/18\/world\/europe\/zelensky-fires-top-officials-venediktova-bakanov.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Europe\u2019s largest security agency\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/06\/23\/zelenskyy-top-spy-security-failures-00041794\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">nearly the same size as the FBI despite Ukraine being 16 times smaller than the U.S<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>You Scratch My Back, I\u2019ll Scratch Yours<\/h2>\n<p>Besides providing financial support during Ukraine\u2019s 2019 election, Kholomoisky\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2022\/03\/26\/flashback_2019_radio_free_europe_reports_on_zelenskys_oligarch_connection_to_igor_kolomoysky.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">supplied Zelensky with a car<\/a>\u00a0and lent his personal lawyer to him to be campaign adviser and promoted his candidacy on various media outlets that he owned.<\/p>\n<p>The close ties between the two were apparent in 2018 when\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2022\/03\/26\/flashback_2019_radio_free_europe_reports_on_zelenskys_oligarch_connection_to_igor_kolomoysky.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Zelensky traveled to Geneva Switzerland, for Kholomoisky\u2019s birthday<\/a>, and then afterwards\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2022\/03\/26\/flashback_2019_radio_free_europe_reports_on_zelenskys_oligarch_connection_to_igor_kolomoysky.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">back to Geneva another ten times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When Kholomoisky moved to Tel Aviv, Israel, Zelensky\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2022\/03\/26\/flashback_2019_radio_free_europe_reports_on_zelenskys_oligarch_connection_to_igor_kolomoysky.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">traveled there to visit with him three times, according to Radio Free Europe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky claimed that his relationship with Kholomoisky was not political; rather he had gone to visit him because of TV work.<\/p>\n<p>However, Zelensky made sure to reward him when he became president. He removed Kholomoisky\u2019s opponents, the Prosecutor General, the Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, and his own prime minister, who tried to regulate Kholomoisky\u2019s control of a state-owned electricity company.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s parliament also passed a measure that prevented Kholomoisky from having to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kenrapoza\/2022\/02\/16\/against-all-odds-has-zelensky-failed-ukraine\/?sh=6199ed867d68\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u00a0pay higher taxes on his mining operations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>No Lion of a Leader<\/h2>\n<p>Zelensky\u2019s long-standing ties to Kholomoisky belie the pristine public image of a man hailed by U.S. politicians as a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/ukraine-president-zelensky-hero-war-russia-putin-united-americans-1683133\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201clion of a leader\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(August Pfluger R-TX) and person of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/ukraine-president-zelensky-hero-war-russia-putin-united-americans-1683133\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">incredible bravery\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(Adam Schiff, D-CA).<\/p>\n<p>A neoliberal who advanced a sweeping privatization initiative, Zelensky has banned eleven opposition parties and carried out a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mronline.org\/2022\/04\/19\/one-less-traitor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">reign of terror against political opponents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The victims include the former leader of the Ukrainian left forces,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/towardfreedom.org\/story\/archives\/europe\/exclusive-ukrainian-refuseniks-on-why-many-wont-fight-for-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Vasily Volga, and the Kononovich brothers, leaders of Ukraine\u2019s Young Communist League<\/a>\u00a0who were accused of being pro-Russian.<\/p>\n<p>Despite campaigning on a peace platform, Zelensky provoked war with Russia by a)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/covertactionmagazine.com\/2022\/03\/01\/repeating-70s-strategy-of-grand-chess-master-zbigniew-brzezinski-biden-administration-appears-to-have-induced-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-to-bankrupt-russias-economy-and-advance-regime-cha\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">enacting a major troop buildup in eastern Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0in February; b)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/covertactionmagazine.com\/2022\/03\/01\/repeating-70s-strategy-of-grand-chess-master-zbigniew-brzezinski-biden-administration-appears-to-have-induced-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-to-bankrupt-russias-economy-and-advance-regime-cha\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">increasing shelling of eastern Ukraine in violation of ceasefire agreements<\/a>; and c) calling for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2021\/03\/20\/ukra-m20.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">retaking from Russia of Crimea and city of Sevastopol<\/a>, which houses the Russian Navy\u2019s Black Sea fleet.<\/p>\n<p>Since the fighting began, Zelensky has eschewed negotiations and instead begged the West for more and more weapons while inviting foreign mercenaries into Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Swiss journalist Guy Mettan has written that Zelensky will ultimately be held responsible for Ukraine\u2019s devastation in the war as he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mronline.org\/2022\/04\/26\/zelenskymania-and-switzerlands-ruined-image\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cpreferred the ruin of his country to a timely compromise.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This assessment is at odds with the current media hagiography of Zelensky, which also obscures his ties to Kholomoisky that the CIA itself has acknowledged.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ol>\n<li>Journalist John Helmer points out that Hillary Clinton, Victoria Nuland and Christine LaGarde, the former IMF directors, ignored the evidence of Kholomoisky\u2019s corruption and the squandering of IMF loan money in a ponzi scheme; probably because of the political imperative underlying the IMF\u2019s policy towards Ukraine after the Maidan coup. John Helmer, \u201cThe Kolomoisky Pyramid Started with Hillary Clinton and Victoria Nuland of the State Department Plus Christine Lagarde of the IMF,\u201d http:\/\/johnhelmer.org\/the-kolomoisky-pyramid-started-with-hillary-clinton-and-victoria-nuland-of-the-state-department-plus-christine-lagarde-of-the-imf\/<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Originally published by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/covertactionmagazine.com\/2022\/07\/20\/how-corrupt-is-ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelensky\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Covertactionmagazine.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the Russian invasion, CIA reports linked him to an oligarch so dirty and so mired in \u201csignificant corruption\u201d that the State Department banned him from entering the U.S. But now CIA propaganda portrays Zelensky as nobler than Winston Churchill and saintlier than Mother Theresa. 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