{"id":1319297,"date":"2025-11-12T09:12:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-mafia-clan-privat-has-not-been-defeated-who-became-the-new-boss\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T00:53:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:53:46","slug":"the-mafia-clan-privat-has-not-been-defeated-who-became-the-new-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-mafia-clan-privat-has-not-been-defeated-who-became-the-new-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"“Privat\u201d Mafia Strikes Back: Meet the New Power Broker Behind Ukraine\u2019s Most Notorious Clan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Author’s Facebook<\/a> page<\/em><\/p>\n

When Kolomoy was taken into custody, it became clear that the Dnipro mafia clan wasn\u2019t gone \u2014 only regrouping. The old boss had fallen, but a new, younger, and bolder one was ready to take his place.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The only real question was: who would take over as the new mafia boss?<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s revelations \u2014 that the president\u2019s long-time friend and co-founder of Kvartal 95<\/em> allegedly oversaw a criminal scheme worth billions \u2014 make the answer painfully clear:<\/p>\n

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has become the new mafia boss.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, Zelenskyy stands at the apex of a corruption empire worth billions. He is no longer just another corrupt official or a typical Eastern European bureaucrat with sticky fingers in state contracts.<\/p>\n

Under him operates a tightly-knit criminal network \u2014 seasoned fixers, grifters, foremen, and foot soldiers \u2014 all playing their parts. They wear the masks of businessmen, volunteers, former activists, journalists, MPs, and civil servants. In reality, they\u2019re gang members with assigned roles \u2014 men and women who carry cash-stuffed bags and vanish into the woods the moment the skies start to darken.<\/p>\n\t\t