Firtash
Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash and top managers of his companies have been served with notices of suspicion – the Economic Security Bureau and the Security Service of Ukraine and the Security Service of Ukraine. On May 15, the Economic Security Bureau and the Security Service of Ukraine reported about the uncovering of “a large-scale scheme of stealing gas from Ukraine’s gas transmission […]
Zaporizhzhia Titanium and Magnesium Plant was returned to state ownership. Previously it was owned by Ukraine oligarch Dmytro Firtash. The Commercial Court of Zaporizhzhia region upheld the claim of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office in the interests of the state against Tolexis Trading Limited (Firtash’s Cyprus offshore company) and LLC Zaporizhzhia Titanium and Magnesium Plant to return the plant to […]
Accident at Rivneazot: brown smoke rose over the plant. According to the official report, a pipeline was depressurized in the nitric acid production section of the plant, which resulted in a single emission of nitrous gases. Photos and videos of brown smoke rising over the plant were posted on social media. Dmytro Melnyk, Spokesman for the Rivne Region State Emergency […]
Ex-Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Shokin, also involved in the scandal surrounding the impeachment of US President Donald Trump and US Vice President Joe Biden, testified in an Austrian court. Shokin testified under oath that US Vice President Joe Biden had pressured the administration of former President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko to not only dismiss him from the Prosecutor General’s […]
The federal court in Chicago confirmed the validity of the allegations of titanium conspiracy against Firtash, a Ukrainian oligarch and former Trump presidential campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s associate. This is reported by the Politico. U.S. prosecutors indicted Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash accusing him of leading a scheme to pay bribes to Indian officials in connection with a titanium mining project […]
Over 26 years of its Independence, Ukraine failed to overcome the dramatic economic backwardness of its successful neighbors.