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
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