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
Mayor of Kiev mayor of Kiev Leonid Chernovetsky of the office of Head of Kiev City Administration, while still preserving the post of mayor. This led to Chernovetsky being deprived of any official decision-making role and most power in the capital was handed over to the Head of Kiev City Administration. At that time that was Oleksandr Popov who was appointed by President Viktor Yanukovych on 16 November 2010. Before these amendments, the elected mayor of the Kiev City Council was automatically appointed also as head of the Kiev City City Administration. Chernovetsky was not seen in Kiev for several months after Popov's