Oleksandr Turchynov business is related with economic research, film production, the provision of telecommunications services and data centers. On 1 May 2017, the journalistic investigation of the program "Our money with Denis Bigus" (channel "24") proved the connection between Oleksandr Turchynov and people's deputy Ruslan Lukyanchuk with three large companies ("Absolut Finance", "Magnate" and "Octave Finance") that own 1,200 exchange points of 3,500 legal currency exchange offices in Ukraine. These points exchanged currencies without cash registers, which violates the requirements of the law, since in this case automatic tax reporting is not provided to the State Fiscal Service. All these companies are
Mayor of Kiev mayor of Kiev Leonid Chernovetsky of the office of Head of Kiev City Administration, while still preserving the post of mayor. This led to Chernovetsky being deprived of any official decision-making role and most power in the capital was handed over to the Head of Kiev City Administration. At that time that was Oleksandr Popov who was appointed by President Viktor Yanukovych on 16 November 2010. Before these amendments, the elected mayor of the Kiev City Council was automatically appointed also as head of the Kiev City City Administration. Chernovetsky was not seen in Kiev for several months after Popov's