Kolomoysky (whose net worth is estimated at $3-$6 billion) is famous for his corporate-takeover tactic of storming a target-company\u2019s headquarters with his private army and ousting the current management at gunpoint \u2013 and replacing them with his own team. America\u2019s Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, has now informed him, in no uncertain terms, that \u201cthe law of the jungle\u201d must end in Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n Pyatt told Kolomoysky: After the change in control of the Ukrainian Government a year ago (which the head of Stratfor called \u201cthe most blatant coup in history,”<\/span><\/a> and which is shown and discussed in this video<\/span><\/a>), the practices that formerly were accepted in Ukraine are no longer acceptable. Pyatt then spoke to the press, and said: “He understands, like most of the political leaders of Ukraine, that the\u00a0circumstances and the environment in\u00a0Ukraine have changed. And the law of\u00a0the jungle that existed under Yanukovych [who was the coup-overthrown former President] is a recipe for disaster and\u00a0tragedy for\u00a0Ukraine. … It is not suitable for Ukrainian realities.\u201d\u00a0He added that,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0“it is important to resolve such issues solely on the basis of justice\u00a0and the rule of law.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Here<\/a><\/span> is Ambassador Pyatt, as he had been heard 18 days before the coup, taking instructions from Victoria Nuland of the U.S. State Department, regarding whom to get appointed to lead Ukraine after the U.S-run coup would be completed. The selected person did end up receiving that appointment. So: Ambassador Pyatt\u2019s statements are taken very seriously by Ukrainian Government officials.<\/span><\/p>\n However, Kolomoysky is also a politically respected figure in Ukraine: He is a leader, and the top financial backer, of the hard-right bloc in the Ukrainian parliament, which favors a more aggressive pursuit of the civil war against the residents of the Donbass region, who have established two \u201cPeople\u2019s Republics\u201d there. He also finances several armed battalions<\/span><\/a> in that war.<\/span><\/p>\n The latest dust-up with Kolomoysky started when the Administration of Ukraine\u2019s President Petro Poroshenko, who is a political opponent of Kolomoysky (Kolomoysky has even gone so far as to say, “I will never obey Poroshenko” and “My army will finish the separatists\u201d<\/span><\/a>), replaced the Chairman of Ukrtransnafta, the company that has a monopoly on oil-transportation in Ukraine, and in which Kolomoysky is a minority shareholder but has controlled the board until now. The Ukrainian Government is the majority-owner, and on March 19th they replaced Kolomoysky\u2019s Chairman, Aleksandr Lazorko, with President Poroshenko\u2019s choice, Yuri Miroshnik. That evening, this photo was taken and shown on Russian Television, of Kolomoysky\u2019s armed \u2018lawyers\u2019 entering the facility to persuade Poroshenko\u2019s officials not to follow through with this.<\/span><\/p>\n http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/242401-kolomoysky-armed-raid-ukraine\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Vladimir Demchishin, the Energy Minister of Ukraine, was outraged. He said, on Thursday evening, that Kolomoysky\u2019s \u2018lawyers\u2019 who were then occupying the company\u2019s office, would likely spend the night there \u201cburning the financial documents\u201d \u2013 destroying legal evidence.<\/span><\/p>\n One of the reasons why Poroshenko\u2019s team had made this executive change unannounced was that there have been allegations that another Kolomoysky company, an oil-storage concern, has been systematically stealing from Ukrtransnafta some of the oil it stores. According to one account<\/span><\/a>: in May 2014, Ukrtransnafta, on their own initiative, pumped from the main oil pipelines more than 670 thousand tons of technological oil. If there has now been a burning of financial documents (and someone did report<\/span><\/a> the smell of kerosene on the entering \u2018lawyers\u2019), then perhaps even an honest investigation (which would be a rarity in Ukraine) would be inconclusive.<\/span><\/p>\n Sergey Leshchenko, a parliamentarian from the bloc of President Poroshenko, condemned the action by Kolomoysky: \u201cThe Governor [Kolomoysky was appointed as one of the regional governors when Yanukovych was overthrown] should not have crossed that line. An armed seizure of a state-run company in the center of Kiev is a personal challenge to Poroshenko, his legitimacy.\u201d He continued, \u201cI pin my hopes on the West\u201d to see that justice is done in the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n ———-<\/span><\/p>\n Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of\u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>, and\u00a0of\u00a0Feudalism, Fascism, Libertarianism and Economics<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eric Zuesse Ihor Kolomoysky, a\u00a0Ukrainian oligarch and friend of the Obama White House (he is the employer of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden\u2019s son Hunter Biden),\u00a0has now been reprimanded by America\u2019s own Ambassador in Ukraine, after he had used physical force in a corporate dispute. 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