Ihor Kolomoyskyy
REAL TIME NET WORTH — as of 5/13/17
$1.09 B
Ihor Kolomoysky and Henadiy Boholyubov founded PrivatBank with $1 million in capital in the early 1990s. Over the years it grew to be a key bank in Ukraine, handling more than a third of private deposits and serving approximately half of the country’s entire population. Then in 2016, Ukraine’s government nationalized the bank. Their Privat Group still has other assets including gas stations and oil refiner, among others. He was forced to step down as governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region in March 2015. The partners also settled a lawsuit with billionaire Viktor Pinchuk who had sued them for damages for unfulfilled pledges on mining investments. He is a generous donor to jewish causes.
Source:forbes