Governor of Dnipropetrovska oblast Kolomoysky cursed at Radio Liberty journalist

The head of Dnipropetrovska oblast state administration, oligarch Ihor Kolomoysky cursed at the Radio Liberty journalist Serhiy Anrushko, Radio Liberty reports.

The incident happened on March 19 around midnight near the office of the company «Ukrtransnafta» in Kyiv, where the conflict in connection to the replacement of the company management was unfoling.

In the evening of March 19, Ihor Kolomoysky accompanied by armed men came to the office of «Ukrtransnafta» after it became known that the supervisory board of this state-owned enterprise removed Oleksander Lazorko from the position of the chairman of the etnerprise’s management board. 

After spending six houts in the office, Kolomoysky left the building, and the journalist asked him what the head of Dnipropetrovska Dnipropetrovska oblast state administration was doing at night in an office of a state company. Ihor Kolomoysky responded in vile curses and asked why the journalist is not interested how Russian subverters made it to the company.  Kolomoysky continued to intimidate and humiliate the journalist.

Earlier, the journalists of Radio Liberty and the First National TV Channel exposed that in the last eight month, the state-owned «Ukrtransnafta» paid around UAH 305 mln for storage of crude oil in reservoirs of the plants, whose controlling interest is held by Kolomoysky’s companies.