Andriy Slyusarchuk government of Ukraine as an adviser to Oleksandr Turchynov. He has claimed to have set several unverified world records memorizing data and figures (such as pi) while performing complex calculations mentally. Because of this, he is known as "Doctor Pi". Slyusarchuk defrauded two Ukrainian presidents: Viktor Yushchenko and Viktor Yanukovych. In the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian Parliament), his activities were called "the largest-scale fraud in Ukraine's 20 years of independence". On 14 February 2014, the Sykhiv Raion Court sentenced Slyusarchuk to eight years in prison. Slyusarchuk's education began in an institutional school for intellectually-disabled infant orphans in the village of
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