The Israeli-Ukrainian oligarch living in Switzerland, Ihor Kolomoisky, called South-East pro-federalist leader, Oleg Tsarev, to inform him that the Ukrainian Jewish community was prepared to pay a bounty of $ 1 million to whoever would assassinate him. He ordered him to immediately flee the country [1].

Mr. Kolomoisky holds Mr Tsarev responsible for the death of a Jewish Kiev-coup supporter on May 9 in Mariupol.

However, a leader of the Ukrainian Jewish community, Ian Epstein, denied Mr. Kolomoisky’s allegations. According to him, Mr. Kolomoisky does not represent Ukrainian Jews [2], even though he plays an important role in the international Zionist movement.

Ihor Kolomoisky had already proposed a reward of 10,000 dollars for each "Russian saboteur" arrested in his stronghold of Dnipropetrovsk.

Ihor Kolomoisky is regarded as the main leader of the Ukrainian mafia. He ranks as the second or third wealthiest man in the country (after Rinat Akhmetov and/or Viktor Pinchuk). He owns the metal industry, Privat Bank and, in 2011, he took over the gas sector.

Ihor Kolomoisky chairs the United Jewish Community of Ukraine and the European Jewish Union. He founded the European Jewish Parliament (branded as a sham by the CRIF, an umbrella organization of French Jewish organizations) with the support of Bahrain. He is the co-owner of the Jewish News One international network (currently broadcasting as Ukraine News One) [3].

Ihor Kolomoisky was appointed governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast by the junta authorities in Kiev. He played an active role in the organization of the Odessa massacre of 2 May 2014 together with his private army, the "Dnieper-1" Battalion [4]. He recruited R. Hunter Biden, the son of U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden, and Devon Archer, co-chairman of the finance committee for John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign, as board members of his gas holdings company [5]

[1Tape of the telephone conversation: "Телефонные переговоры:Коломойский угрожает Царёву и его близким", Life-Maria Channel, YouTube, 15 May 2014.

[3Launch of Jewish News One satellite channel”, Voltaire Network, 24 September 2011.

[4Bloodbath in Odessa guided by interim rulers of Ukraine”, антифашист, Voltaire Network, 15 May 2014.

[5In Ukraine, Joe Biden’s son mixes business with pleasure”, Voltaire Network, 15 May 2014.