Oleksandr Yanukovych
Olexandr Wiktorowytsch Yanukovych (Ukrainian Олександр Вікторович Янукович; born July 1, 1973 in Jenakijewo in the Donetsk Oblast ) is a Ukrainian businessman. He is the eldest son of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
Olexandr Yanukovych studied dentistry at the National University of Donetsk. Since 2006 he was the owner of the company management Assets Company ( MAKO ), which was built in eastern Ukraine office buildings and hotels. He also acquired the majority of shares of the portfolio of the All-Ukrainian Development Bank. The he also owned company MAKO Trading AG was registered since 2011 in Geneva and specialized in the sale of anthracite coal from Ukraine. The Swiss journalist Martine Brocard had an article in the Sunday newspaper noted in January 2013 that the president's son a privileged access to coal mining in Ukraine have since there numerous mines belong to the state.
2012, the assets of Olexandr Yanukovych was estimated at 99 million U.S. dollars. He takes in guidance issued by the Forbes magazine list of the richest people of Ukraine # 98, in which he stated repeatedly that the commercial success of his company is not owed to the office of his father. In this context, since 2012 was in repeated media reports of a growing influence Olexandr Yanukovych and his circle of acquaintances on the Ukrainian political speech.
After the dismissal of Viktor Yanukovych on February 22, 2014 the Ukrainian parliament, locked, the Swiss government on 28 February 2014 series of accounts of his followers, including that of Olexandr. At the same time, the Geneva prosecutor's office opened a criminal case against him on suspicion of money laundering. In the course of the investigation, the spaces of MAKO Trading were searched in Geneva. According to media reports, the assets of Olexandr Yanukovych was estimated at this time at half a billion dollars.
On 6 March 2014, the Council of the European Union in Brussels has imposed by Regulation 208/2014 restrictive measures against Olexandr Yanukovych. This is justified by the prosecution of Yanukovych for the investigation of criminal offenses in connection with the embezzlement of public funds of Ukraine and illegal transfer of funds abroad.