Hennadiy
Boholyubov

• Hennadiy Boholyubov (Gennadiy Bogolyubov) was born on January 20, 1962 in Dniprodzerzhynsk (now: Kamianske), Dnipropetrovsk region.

Education: Dnipropetrovsk Institute of Civil Engineering.

• British citizen, renounced Ukrainian citizenship in 2017.
• Since 2010, he is also a citizen of Cyprus. Hennadiy Boholyubov received an EU passport in exchange for investments in this country.
• In 2019, Boholyubov asked the Migration Service to get his Ukrainian passport back. On June 25, 2019, he received a residence permit in Ukraine.

• In 1984-1988, Hennadiy Boholyubov worked as a civil engineer in the Dnipropetrovsk trust "Dneprovskpromstroy".
• In 1991, he started his own business focused on importing equipment. The business partners were Ihor Kolomoisky, Leonid Miloslavsky, and Oleksiy Martynov.
• In 1992, he was one of the founders of Privatbank. Over time, Boholyubov together with his business partners created a large business group with the unofficial name "Privat".
• In 2008, Boholyubov, together with the German retail OBI, began to develop a chain of building materials hypermarkets.
• In 2013, the German company decided to leave Ukraine, sell the goods, and close three stores (in Odesa, Kharkiv, and Mariupol). The investors explained that they could not manage to become noticeable players in the market.

Boholyubov explained to journalists that, unlike his partners, he did not feel comfortable in politics and did not understand anything about it.

• Hennadiy Boholyubov is in the TOP-100 list of the richest Ukrainians. Novoe Vremia magazine and Dragon Capital investment company estimate his fortune at $1.376 billion. Fokus estimates it at $2.2 billion, and Russian Forbes estimates it at $1.2 billion.
• Ukrnafta is the largest oil company in the country.
• NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine owns 50% + 1 share of Ukrnafta, the Kolomoisky and Boholyubov group of companies owns about 42% of the shares.

Hennadiy Boholyubov related people

Wife: Elena Boрolyubova, born June 6, 1963.

During the nationalization of Privatbank, Elena was recognized as a person associated with the former shareholders, and her funds were written off.

Hennadiy Boholyubov assured that he had not lived with his wife for a long time as he had divorced her eleven years ago. In 2017, Elena seized UAH 500 million from Privatbank.

In 2019, the higher court suspended the decision to recover money in favor of Boholyubova as they were waiting for the decision of the Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court.

They considered a similar claim by the brothers Ihor and Hryhoriy Surkis who are business partners of one of the Privatbank's former shareholders, Ihor Kolomoisky.

• They tried to prove that they were not associated with the oligarch. The key meeting passed in June 2020. The court supported Privatbank. Daughter: Kateryna Cherinavskaya, born on September 4, 1984.
• Son-in-law: Dmytro Cherinavsky, born on July 16, 1971.

Dmytro is a lawyer, originally from Donetsk. In 2008, he was mentioned in the media as the acting general director of the NSC Olimpiyskiy in Kyiv.

In 2009, the head of the Ministry of Youth Sports, Yuriy Pavlenko, dismissed Cherinavsky from his work position due to a number of violations, including not paying salary to employees.

Sister: Natalia Bogolyubova, born on February 4, 1973.

Natalia's spouse: Stanislav Sheykhetov, born on February 13, 1970.

• In 2018, Bihus.Info journalists published a scandalous investigation about deputy head of foreign intelligence Sergey Semochko.

Investigating social networks, they found out that the Boholyubov family and Semochko family are neighbors, and Semochko's children post photos from the Boholyubov house in Koncha-Zaspa.

In Kyiv, Kateryna Cherinavskaya used to live in the same house as Semochko.

• The media mention about one more coincidence. In 2018, Semochko headed the SBU of Kyiv city and Kyiv region.

It was at times when a criminal proceeding for a minor crime in Privatbank was opened. The crime allegedly happened in 2011-2015. On the basis of this document, SBU demanded through the court a report of the detective agency Kroll on fraud in Privat.

• In 2019, Boholyubov came back to Ukraine almost simultaneously with Kolomoisky, after Volodymyr Zelensky had won in the presidential elections.

The media suggested that he came back as there was an investigation in the United States. According to the media, the partners are accused "for hundreds of millions of dollars of damages arising in connection with claims for…unjust enrichment, for fraudulent transfer under state laws."

• Since 1999, he is President of the Dnipropetrovsk Jewish Community.
• In 2010, together with Ihor Kolomoisky and Viktor Pinchuk, he accompanied Israeli President Shimon Peres during his visit to Dnipropetrovsk.