Everyone knows that modern politics and its leaders are, in a way, a separate universe with its own laws and rules. There are no friends for life, and enemies can sometimes situationally become partners. Fortunately or unfortunately, a simple layman was not given to know all the details of the relationship between members of political parties and forces. Sometimes we don’t even know all the characters. But there are so odious personalities that we should talk about separately. And one of these people is Gennady Korban.
Curriculum Vitae
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. The politician is Jewish in his ethnic origin. In the late 1980s, his relatives emigrated to Israel and received citizenship there, but after a while returned to Dnepropetrovsk.
Gennady Korban I spent all my childhood in this city and graduated from high school there. After her graduation, he applied to the Faculty of Philosophy of Rostov University, but in the end was not enrolled due to the absence of Communists in the family. Gennady was forced to return to his homeland and begin training at the Metallurgical Institute, from which he later left and was drafted into the army. Having left the reserve, the young man entered the Moscow Literary Institute in 1990 , but he had to give up his student life due to the beginning of active work in the cooperative.
In the period 1994-1997 he underwent external training at the Dnepropetrovsk Mining Academy.
Start of work
Working on the Moscow Exchange in 1990-1991, Gennady Korban gained invaluable experience in making money. Having dug up a small starting capital (in the amount of 200 thousand dollars), he returns to Dnepropetrovsk and creates a brokerage office under the name "Ukraine", and he himself leads it.
In 1994, the businessman became the head of the Supervisory Board of OJSC Slavutich Capital. And since 2001, he has led the monitoring of OAO Southern Mining and Processing Plant.
Since 2005, he has been a member of the Supervisory Board of Ukrnafta.
Political activity
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 Dnipropetrovsk regional administration. At that time, the governor of the region was Igor Kolomoisky. After staying in this position for a year, Korban leaves for a new project called “Ukrainian Association of Patriots”. It was UKROP who nominated Gennady as a candidate for the elections to the Verkhovna Rada, which he eventually lost to the representative of Petro Poroshenko. The entire election campaign was accompanied by a large number of scandals and intrigues.
In September 2015, Gennady Korban, whose photo is shown below, was nominated by UKROP as mayor of Kiev. However, here he did not achieve success.
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 in Dnepropetrovsk his car was fired upon. The politician was lucky that he was absent in the car at that moment. The perpetrators and the organizer of the crime were eventually convicted, but the customer was never found.
The second assassination attempt occurred 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 experts at Forbes-Ukraine Publishing House, 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 home by the Security Service of Ukraine and the General Prosecutor's Office. He was charged immediately on four counts. On the same day he was taken to the remand prison in the city of Chernigov. Thorough searches were carried out in his apartment.
On November 6, 2015, a decision was made on the house arrest of Gennady Olegovich. But after three it was appealed by the prosecutor's office. On December 24, the politician was taken to Kiev and conducted a forensic examination at the Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery. Ultimately, on December 28, Korbana was selected as a preventive measure in custody.