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
Oleksandr Turchynov political figure from Dnipropetrovsk. They used to have a common business in Dnipropetrovsk. In December 1993, Turchynov co-founded and became Vice President of Ukrainian Union of Industrialist and Entrepreneurs. In 1994 he created the political party Hromada together with Pavlo Lazarenko, a business ally of Tymoshenko. Turchynov was also director of the Economic Reforms Institute from January 1994 to March 1998 and was head of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences' Laboratory of Shadow Economy Research. In 1998, he was elected to parliament as a member of Hromada but after the scandal around Lazarenko, he left the faction and party