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...Ukrainian authorities have increased pressure on one of the country’s richest oligarchs in exile, Dmytro Firtash, by expanding a corruption investigation into his energy businesses....
...Even Dmytro Firtash, the exiled gas tycoon wanted on corruption charges in the US and once considered close to the Kremlin, has said he wants to return to Ukraine to help the war effort....
...Ukraine’s economy is still dominated by a group of super-rich businessmen including Dmytro Firtash, Rinat Akhmetov, Victor Pinchuk, Mr Kolomoisky and, yes, Mr Poroshenko....
...His last words were a direct reference to the gas trading and chemical producing conglomerate owned by Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash....
...Mr Kilimnik also played a role in business dealings that Mr Manafort’s team pursued with two of the region’s richest oligarchs, Russia’s Oleg Deripaska and Ukraine’s Dmytro Firtash, former associates said...
...He is an old time business acquaintance of gas lobby leaders Dmytro Firtash and Yanukovich’s chief of staff Serhiy Lyovochkin, who dumped Yanukovich in January 2014 when they saw the writing on the wall....
...Dmytro Firtash, who a Vienna court refused to extradite to the US, had the largest bail in Austrian history – $155m – paid by Vasily Anisimov, “a billionaire who heads the Russian Judo Federation, the governing...
...In last-minute amendments to the law, MPs also imposed fees on companies holding monopolies in regional gas distribution, which they claim are controlled by oligarchs, including Dmytro Firtash, a former...
...Dmytro Firtash, a former partner of Russia’s Gazprom in Ukraine’s lucrative natural gas business, is also under pressure....
...Parliament has demonopolised the gas sector, a stronghold of Dmytro Firtash, an energy tycoon....
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...(BBC) ‘Wanted’ Ukrainian billionaire advises UK When the UK government wanted advice early in the Ukraine crisis, it turned to Dmytro Firtash, a tycoon from the former Soviet republic, who faces bribery...
...Ukraine’s gas lobby, whose leader Dmytro Firtash is on bail in Vienna awaiting extradition to the US on charges of corruption, has influence in the Poroshenko bloc and is providing financing to the Radical...
...The US has brought more criminal proceedings against high-ranking Ukrainians – including former prime minister Pavlo Lazarenko and gas tycoon Dmytro Firtash – than Ukrainian authorities have themselves....
...Dmytro Firtash was arrested in March last year in Austria on suspicion of corruption at the request of US law enforcement agencies: he was later released on bail, but is still in Austria....
...With the main sponsor of Poroshenko’s election campaign being gas tycoon Dmytro Firtash, who is awaiting deportation in Vienna to stand trial in the US, the president’s potential Achilles heel will be his...
...Ms Tymoshenko’s team has portrayed Mr Poroshenko as a throwback to Ukraine’s murky past, highlighting his endorsement by Dmytro Firtash, a controversial, Russian-linked oligarch recently indicted by the...
...Billionaire Dmytro Firtash, chairman of the Confederation of Employers of Ukraine, said in a statement published by local news agencies: “Appeals to separatism . . . worsen an already very difficult situation...
...Later on Sunday, another Ukrainian billionaire, Dmytro Firtash, addressed Russia’s business community through a statement issued by the Kiev-based Federation of Employers, of which he is president....
...Meanwhile, coverage of the political situation on the four major TV channels owned by the major oligarchs (“Ukraina” owned by Rinat Akhmetov; “Inter” under Dmytro Firtash and “ICTV” owned by Viktor Pinchuk...
...Another lever of influence could be pressure from Ukraine’s richest businessmen – notably Rinat Akhmetov and Dmytro Firtash – who influence groups of MPs that form part of the pro-presidential majority in...
...Oligarch Rinat Akhmetov and gas tycoon Dmytro Firtash together with the president’s eldest son Oleksandr received a significant portion of government tenders during Yanukovich’s four-year misrule....
...The WEF event that Yanukovich spoke at certainly included friends in attendance: it was sponsored by Group DF, owned by gas and energy tycoon Dmytro Firtash, who recently sponsored another event to spread...
...] Firtash, or Sergei Kurchenko [of Gaz Ukraina 2009] and other names.”...
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