Posted on 03/30/2025 11:42:15 AM PDT by ransomnote
ransomnote: Art at the top of the page features a (protest) placard of Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy and oligarch Kolomoiskyi kissing.
On 3 October, a Kyiv theater saw the screening of the film “Offshore 95” by Slidstvo.Info, a team of independent investigative journalists, despite attempts to disrupt it. The theater’s management reported technical issues, such as maintenance and problems with lighting. But according to some activists, this was due to threats from the Security Service of Ukraine led by Ivan Bakanov, Zelenskyy’s close friend.Slidstvо.Info journalists discovered that the offshore network of Ukraine’s President and his circle could have received millions from oligarch Ihor Kolomoiskyi’s firms through Privatbank, the country’s largest commercial bank in Ukraine. Euromaidan Press covers the details of the scheme based on the film.
The film is based on the recently published Pandora Papers, which made publicly available millions of files from registrars of island firms, exposing the dirty business of top politicians and businessmen from throughout the world.
In particular, Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy and his business partners from Kvartal 95 who own offshore firms and luxury real estate abroad. The documents also allowed establishing a multi-million dollars-worth connection between Zelenskyy and Ukrainian oligarch Kolomoiskyi.
“These findings force us to look differently at the Ukrainian President, who came to power speculating on the film image of an honest and modest president of common people,” stated the creators of the film.
Kvartal 95 is a comedy club named in the honor of a square in Kryvyi Rih city in Ukraine, where Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his friends come from. Zelenskyy, a comedy actor before becoming president of Ukraine, was the leader of the team.The show initially participated in the Club of the Funny and Clever, a competition spanning many post-Soviet countries where teams vied for the title of the funniest and cleverest by performing Russian-language skits and stand-up humour.
But as the show did not allow the actors to earn in other programs, the team left the Club and set up the entertainment company Studio Kvartal 95. Zelenskyy and brothers, Serhii Shefir and Borys Shefir, were the first to contribute to the business. The team moved from Kryvyi Rih to Kyiv and began to develop rapidly.
Artem Vakaliuk, a researcher in the cinema and television market, calls Kvartal 95 a “family business” because everyone there is friends. He explains they were in the company not just to earn money but to build there, so to say, a part of their own business. Kvartal 95 brought the owners wild popularity and millions of fortunes.
Among the persons named in the documents of offshore registrars that became known thanks to Pandora Papers, journalists feature the names of Ukraine’s state leadership, such as Ivan Bakanov, Head of Security Service of Ukraine, Serhii Shefir, First Assistant to the President, and President Zelenskyy.
They also discovered that around a dozen persons in Zelenskyy’s near circle have offshore companies. Offshore registrar Fidelity and Ukrainian lawyer Yurii Azarov helped create the network. According to the journalists, offshore business helped the owners of Kvartal 95 buy three luxury apartments in London.
Slidstvo.Info took a look at how Ukraine’s President and his partners’ business evolved.
MORE AT THE LINK: https://euromaidanpress.com/2021/10/06/what-the-pandora-papers-tell-about-zelenskyy-his-offshore-companies-and-his-favorite-oligarch/
Good to see news about the Pandora papers, finally. But those in the know, knew this when the Ukie war broke out….long story short, everything about St Z stinks, the Demoncrats narrative played Americans, and unfortunately the Russian Derangement Syndrome still dominates.
Interesting read, thanks for posting.
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