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
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