“They want to keep PrivatBank?”

“They want to keep PrivatBank?” Kolomoisky asked Economichna Pravda magazine in an interview. “Let them. I don’t need PrivatBank. But there was $2 billion in the capital there. Let them return it to me and there will be no problems.” Speaking from self-exile in Israel, Kolomoisky said the IMF “instigated” the bank seizure, adding: “They said that they would not give Ukraine money until the bank was taken.” Only under a new president, Kolomoisky said, would he get a “fair court and fair legal assessment” of Privatbank nationalization.