US government agencies may have slow walked approval of steel company sale in 2017, helping to sink 20% of the $1 billion that Ihor Kolomoisky and his partner Hennadiy Boholyubov had invested in the US,

US government agencies may have slow walked approval of steel company sale in 2017, helping to sink 20% of the $1 billion that Ihor Kolomoisky and his partner Hennadiy Boholyubov had invested in the US, according to a report by RFE/RL. “Ukrainian Tycoons Lost Their Expansive U.S. Steel Business To Bankruptcy. What Role Did Washington Play?” headlines the 2,100-word piece by Washington-based reporter Todd Prince. Coming nine months after the nationalization of PrivatBank in December 2016, the failed sale may have been part of increased US government scrutiny of Kolomoisky. On Tuesday, FBI agents raided the US offices of the two Ukrainians.