Gennadiy Korban is the "grey eminence" of Ukrainian politics

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:47

Everyone knows that modern politics and its figures are in some way a separate universe with its own laws and rules. There are no friends for life here, and enemies can sometimes situationally become partners. Fortunately or unfortunately, a simple layman is not allowed to know all the details of the relationship between members of political parties and forces. Sometimes we don't even know all the actors. But there are such odious personalities that are worth talking about separately. And one of these people is Gennady Korban.

Biography

One of the richest people in Ukraine today was born on May 24, 1970 in the city of Dnepropetrovsk. Gennady Korban was born into a family of engineers working at the plant. According to his ethnic origin, the politician is a Jew. In the late 1980s, his relatives emigrated to Israel and received citizenship there, but after a while they returned to Dnepropetrovsk.

Gennady Korban spent all his childhood in this city and graduated from high school there. After graduation, he applied to the Faculty of Philosophy of Rostov University, but in the end was not enrolled indue to the absence of communists in the family. Gennady was forced to return to his homeland and begin his studies at the metallurgical institute, from which he left a little later and was drafted into the army. Having retired from the reserve, the young man entered the Moscow Literary Institute in 1990, but he had to quit his student life due to the beginning of active work in a cooperative.

In the period 1994-1997, he was an external student at the Dnepropetrovsk Mining Academy.

Beginning of a career

Working in 1990-1991 at the Moscow Exchange, Gennady Korban gained invaluable experience in making money. Having saved up a small start-up capital (in the amount of 200 thousand dollars), he returns to Dnepropetrovsk and creates a brokerage office called "Ukraine", and he himself heads it.

In 1994, the businessman became the head of the Supervisory Board of Slavutich Capital OJSC. And since 2001, he has been in charge of monitoring the Southern Mining and Processing Plant OJSC.

Since 2005, he has been a member of the Supervisory Board of Ukrnafta.

Political activities

Korban Gennady Olegovich, whose biography is full of events of various nature, in March 2014 was appointed to the post of chief of staff of the Dnepropetrovsk regional administration. At that time, Igor Kolomoisky was the governor of the region. After staying in this position for a year, Korban leaves for a new project called the Ukrainian Association of Patriots. It was UKROP who nominated Gennady as a candidate for elections inVerkhovna Rada, which he eventually lost to the representative of Petro Poroshenko. The entire election campaign was accompanied by a lot of scandals and intrigues.

In September 2015, Gennady Korban, whose photo is shown below, was nominated by UKROP for the post of mayor of Kyiv. However, he did not succeed here either.

On the verge of death

Korban Gennady Olegovich (his biography is quite interesting for many) has repeatedly experienced attempts on his life. So, in 2006, his car was fired upon in Dnepropetrovsk. The politician was lucky that he was not in the car at that moment. The perpetrators and organizer of the crime were eventually convicted, but the customer was never found.

The second assassination attempt took place in 2010. As a result, Korban was injured. His colleague, Gennady Axelrod, was also injured.

Financial opportunities

Gennady Korban, whose biography shows how smart and active he is, according to Forbes-Ukraine publishing house experts, has a fortune of $55 million. This indicator allowed him to take 84th position in the ranking of 130 richest people in the Ukrainian state.

Prosecution

On October 31, 2015, Korban was detained at his home by the SBU and the General Prosecutor's Office. He was charged immediately under four articles. On the same day, he was taken to the detention center in the city of Chernihiv. Thorough searches were carried out in his apartment.

November 6, 2015, a house arrest order was issued for Gennady Olegovich. But after three it was appealed by the prosecutor's office. On December 24, the politician was taken to Kyiv and conducted a forensic medical examination at the Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery. Ultimately, on December 28, Korbana was chosen as a measure of restraint in custody.