Secrets: Ukraine's Zelensky Will Be Thrown Under the Bus As His Oligarch Patron Gets Squeezed (Deutsche Bank and dirty money)

President Zelensky was not the optimal winner for the U.S. and Britain in the 2019 Ukraine election. The West was very happy with their guy, Petro Poroshenko, installed after the 2014 Maidan coup. Zelensky's sugar-daddy, Ihor Kolomoyskyi made a big bet on Zelensky and the result was a blow-out 73 - 25 victory for Zelensky. However....

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has made something of a cottage industry digging into Kolomoyskyi's doings. Here's the latest, February 20, 2022:

PG INVESTIGATION | Shadowy money built steel empire — with bank's help 

Deutsche was warned about highly suspicious money — but moved it anyway

Months after Ukraine oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky and his partners abandoned an Ohio steel plant and left scores of workers without jobs, financial crime experts at Deutsche Bank shot up a troubling alert.

Millions of dollars were flowing into its U.S. headquarters for a business owned by the oligarch, but something wasn’t right.

Detecting signs of suspicious money — large round numbers from high-risk jurisdictions — the bank could have refused the transfers or even dropped the client.

But it didn’t do either.

Despite warnings from its own workers, Deutsche allowed the money to keep pouring into its coffers six years ago while the oligarch and his partners secretly amassed a steel fortune in the United States.

The Justice Department has been investigating Mr. Kolomoisky and others in what prosecutors allege was a vast scheme to steal millions of dollars from Ukraine’s largest bank and move the money into the U.S. to buy steel mills and skyscrapers.

But recently unsealed federal court records show U.S. banks moved far more money than what was reported by the U.S. government — billions of dollars — for companies under the control of the power broker in patterns that went unchecked for nearly a decade.

Between 2006 and 2015, more than $4.45 billion was transferred without any apparent effort by the banks or the government to stem the movement of dollars as the oligarch and his partners acquired an enormous real estate portfolio....

....MUCH MORE, they go deep. 

Previously (2021):

 

Will We Ever Find The Looted Billions The IMF Sent To Ukraine? Ihor Kolomoisky's Adventures In America

We've been trying to figure out who Kolomoisky tainted and it appear to include everyone from Victora Nuland who just became the highest ranking careerist in the State Department to Donald Trump to the Biden's.
But then a $5 billion cash honeypot is apt to draw....um, people.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has done an astoundingly thorough job of turning up facts and figures on one part of the story of a very, very bad person.

From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 16:....