Vadym Rabinovych

Wadym Rabinowytsch (2009)

Wadym Sinowijowytsch Rabinowytsch (in German and English press often Vadim Rabinovich . Or similar. Ukrainian Вадим Зіновійович Рабінович; Russian Вадим Зиновьевич Рабинович ; * 4. August 1953 in Kharkov , Soviet Union ) is a Ukrainian - Israeli oligarch, sports official, politician ( Opposition Platform - For life ), patron and the chairman of the All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress, which is a member of the World Jewish Congress .

Life

As a businessman, he first owned a furniture import business and later exported Ukrainian natural gas. Convicted and expatriated on charges of various crimes, he left the country and became an Israeli citizen because of his Jewish origins. The conviction was later overturned and his Ukrainian citizenship restored.

According to a report by Spiegel , Rabinowytsch and the arms dealer Victor Bout sold between 150 and 200 formerly Soviet T-55 and T-62 tanks to the Taliban in 2002 . Rabinovych denied the statements made in these reports. In the USA, Rabinowytsch is constantly being refused entry because of "alleged involvement in organized crime, money laundering, drug smuggling and the sale of war weapons to North Korea and Iraq , contract killings and other crimes" (translation by the German author of the article).

The journalist Jürgen Roth describes Rabinowytsch as "the most important link between legal and criminal businessmen [sic] in the former Soviet Union". In Roth's book "Der Oligarch" (Hamburg 2001), Rabinowytsch speaks about the criminal interdependencies of the Russian mafia in Europe, according to the report following a request from the former chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Ignatz Bubis , to "cleanse his name", to be a worthy leader of the Jewish community in Ukraine.

Rabinovych is also known for its philanthropic activities. He is the donor of a golden menorah for the square at the Jerusalem Western Wall and donated over 10 million Israeli shekels (approx. € 2 million) for the restoration of the Hurva Synagogue in the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem's old town. In 2011 he founded the television channel Jewish News One together with Ihor Kolomojskyj .

On March 25, 2014, Rabinovych submitted the documents for his candidacy in the presidential election in Ukraine . In these elections on May 25, he achieved an election result of 2.25%.

In the wake of the Ukraine crisis , the OSCE announced in mid-November 2016 that participants in a demonstration organized by its For Life Party had received money.

Private

Since 2007 Rabinowytsch has also been president of the professional football club FK Arsenal Kiev .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ports: All 'Bout a Dealer Named Bout , Village Voice , February 21, 2006.
2. ↑ Betsy Gidwitz, Jewish Life in Ukraine at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century: Part One  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , CIAO Online , April 2001.  
3. ↑ http://www.juergen-roth.com/deroligarch.html Roth, Jürgen, self-promotion for "Der Oligarch" (website, accessed January 10, 2011)
4. ^ Hurva Synagogue restoration nears completion ( April 3, 2008 memento in the Internet Archive ), Jerusalem Post , March 28, 2008.
5. ↑ From ruin to reconstruction, the Hurva Synagogue is completed - again , Jewish Journal , March 9, 2010.
6. ↑ Al-Jazira in Jewish. In: nzz.ch. October 15, 2011, accessed October 14, 2018 . 
7. ↑ President of All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress Rabynovych to register as presidential candidate, Interfax-Ukraine on March 25, 2014
8. ↑ Website of the Ukrainian state news agency nrcu from May 29, 2014 ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ^ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: OSCE: Ukrainian party pays demonstrators . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed on November 17, 2016]).

Web links

• An interview with Vadim Rabinovich, president of the All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress , July 09, 2004 (English).