Oleksandr Yanukovych government officials - a certain organization seizes a property (usually a small business) under a fabricated justification. Yanukovych's MAKO Group of companies (majority shareholder, Oleksandr Yanukovych) was assessed by the auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers as having $212 million in assets in 2011, grossing $663,000 from sales. In March 2012 Yanukovych's net worth was estimated to be at least $130 million by Kyiv Post. In 2011, MAKO consisted of 16 enterprises located in Ukraine, Switzerland and the Netherlands, and employed 700 people. MAKO Group is primarily involved in property development and construction, banking, and the export of high-grade coal. MAKO started to grow
Viktor Yanukovych the transitional government went to representatives of the right-wing extremist nationalist group Svoboda, condemned by the EU in 2012 (see Svoboda Party). Unlike his 28 February press conference, Yanukovych did not take questions from reporters. On 28 March 2014, Yanukovych asked the Party of Regions to exclude him. He was excluded on 29 March during a party congress along with several senior figures of his régime. On 13 April, Yanukovych again gave a press conference in Rostov-on-Don, this time accompanied by former Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka and former interior minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko. On 13 June 2014, Yanukovych released a video