Court postpones preparatory hearing in Kolomoiskyi case

This was reported by an Ukrinform correspondent.

During the hearing, both defendants in the case, Serhii Volkov and Kolomoisky himself, stated that they were requesting a panel consideration of the case.

As Judge Liudmyla Kazmyrenko noted, this motion will be forwarded to the court registry so that the appropriate automated case allocation can take place.

The date and time of the next hearing in this case will be announced later.

After the hearing began, the court granted a motion by the defense attorneys and allowed Kolomoisky to sit next to his lawyers, releasing him from the glass enclosure.

As previously reported, on September 7, 2023, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) notified Ihor Kolomoisky, the former ultimate beneficial owner of PrivatBank, and five members of an organized group he allegedly formed, of suspicion in the embezzlement of bank funds totaling more than UAH 9.2 billion.

On September 23, 2025, prosecutors from the Office of the Prosecutor General submitted an indictment to the court against Kolomoisky, a former shareholder of PrivatBank, as well as the former head of the bank’s Kyiv branch. Materials concerning five other members of the group were separated into individual criminal proceedings.

In addition, on September 2, 2023, the Bureau of Economic Security and the Security Service of Ukraine served Kolomoisky with additional notices of suspicion under two articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine: Article 190 (fraud) and Article 209 (legalization [laundering] of property obtained through criminal means).

The BES and the SSU accuse Kolomoisky of laundering more than half a billion hryvnias between 2013 and 2020 by transferring the funds abroad using the infrastructure of banking institutions under his control.