The Korespondent Journal created this richest Ukrainian list. I cannot find an on-line link to this story. I got this information via The Action Ukraine Report.

Continuing the list... Here is the 8th richest Ukrainian.

8. Dmytro Firtash

Korespondent estimates his assets at USD 1.4 billion.

He is 40 years old and owns a Kiev basketball club.

Firtash is in a very interesting position. He is in the middle of a very shady deal.

Firtash has ties with Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko. A rumor is that President Yushchenko gave a billion dollar energy contract away to his friends. This pissed many folks off (true or untrue) because President Yushchenko is suppose to be battling corrupting not giving it a helping hand.

RosUkrEnergo finally revealed its beneficial owners in a move aimed at countering mounting international concern about its ownership.

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The Swiss-registered trading company, which won billion-dollar contracts to supply gas to Ukraine and other European countries earlier this year, named Dmytro Firtash and Ivan Fursin, two Ukrainian businessmen, as the owners of a 50 per cent stake. The other 50 per cent is held by Gazprom, the Russian energy group, whose shareholding was publicly known.

From: RosUkrEnergo reveals its owners

There is another view... President Yushchenko is just stupid. Or maybe he is corrupt and stupid.

a hastily agreed-to gas [between Russia and Ukraine] contract on January 4 [2006] stipulated the use of Rosukrenergo as an intermediary. Not only were those who were sent to negotiate in Moscow incompetent in their prosecution of their duties, they were completely ignorant of the fact that the EU, the United States and entire Western media were on Ukraine's side at that point.

In other words, it should have been Russia capitulating to Ukraine - not Ukraine to Russia. Sending the head of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists (i.e. head of Naftohaz Ukrainy) to Moscow, with an interpreter, to negotiate through the gas crisis was surreal.

From: Revived Orange Coalition Needs to Reinvigorate Ukraine's Reforms

I also find it very interesting that Ivan Fursin [the other RosUkrEnergo owner] isn't on the richest Ukrainian list.

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Dmytro Firtash is connected to an international criminal named Semyon Mogilevich. Mogilevich is wanted by the FBI and his picture is to the right.

Firtash is director of the Cyprus-based investment company Highrock Holdings, as well as board chairman of Estonian fertilizer factory Nitrofert, according to anti-corruption watchdog Global Witness.

Fursin [the other RosUkrEnergo owner] owns an Odessa bank and a movie theater, and is also president of a branch of Highrock Holdings, according to Izvestia.

Izvestia said Highrock was owned by Semyon Mogilevich, a Ukrainian-born businessman wanted by the FBI and reputed to be a major figure in organized crime.

From: Ukraine’s Gas Traders Revealed

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