Oleksandr Yanukovych a company named "Management Assets Company" (MAKO). MAKO owns construction companies that built business centres and shopping malls in Donetsk, a hotel in Balaklava (Crimea) and some banks. Various Ukrainian press have suggested people close to Oleksandr have landed some of Ukraine's most important positions including top government positions. His father Viktor Yanukovych, through his press service, has denied that he appoints individuals to top government positions based on their personal loyalty and closeness to his family rather than qualifications. Also Yanukovych's organization is alleged of performing over 70 so called "raid seizures" - when with a help of corrupt
Yuriy Ilyin Yuriy Ilyin Yuriy Ivanovych Ilyin (born 21 August 1962) is a Ukrainian Admiral and former Commander of the Ukrainian Navy. He was elevated to the position of Chief of the General Staff by President Viktor Yanukovych on 19 February 2014 after the existing chief, Colonel General Volodymyr Zamana, was dismissed by the President during the February 2014 Euromaidan riots. After an admission to hospital following a heart attack on 27 February 2014, Ilyin was dismissed from the post of Chief of the General Staff by interim President Alexander Turchynov on 28 February 2014. Ilyin was born in Rogachev City, now