Oleksandr Turchynov belonged to JSC "Financial holding "L-Holding"", the largest shareholder of which was JSC "Centre of Financial Technologies". Oleksandr Turchinov owned 26.2% of the shares of this company. On April 23, 2008, the Kiev District Administrative Court ruled that Oleksandr Turchinov had no personal relationship with the construction of the Landscape Valley. In 2005, Oleksandr Turchinov ordered to organize an illegal wiretapping of the journalist of "Segodnya" newspaper Oleksandr Korchinsky. This fact was made public at a press conference by Viktor Shokin, former Prosecutor General of Ukraine. The telephone of the journalist was tapped from June 25 to July 12, 2005.
History of Crimea in the aftermath of the Euromaidan revolution. On 21 February, President Viktor Yanukovych agreed to a three-party memorandum that would have kept him in office until the end of the year. Within 24 hours the agreement was broken by the Maidan-activists and the president was forced to flee. He was dismissed the following day by a rump Verkhovna Rada, the legislature elected in 2012, and the Government he dismissed was replaced by a non-elected, illegal "Government", contrary to the Constitution. In the absence of a president, the newly appointed Speaker of the legislature, Oleksandr Turchynov, became acting President with limited