Dmytro Firtash
Dmytro Firtash (b. 1965) is a Ukrainian businessman who heads the board of directors of Group DF (the Firtash Group). Firtash, a one-time business partner of Paul Manafort, was investigated by corrupt FBI attorney Lisa Page.
In March 2015 Firtash established the Agency for Modernization of Ukraine in Vienna.[1]
On December 2, 2015 Firtash announced his intention to return to Ukraine to address the General Assembly of the Federation of Employers (FEU). Joe Biden, President Poroshenko, and Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov took steps to prevent Firtash's return.[2] The next day Politico reported the Obama/Biden administration want their Ukrainian allies who came to power in an anti-democratic coup to arrest Firtash. The article stated:
"Ukraine's Internal Affairs Minister Arsen Avakov announced on Sunday that, after consulting with U.S. officials, he instructed Ukrainian police to detain Firtash should he attempt to enter Ukraine."[3]
Photos of an armed neo-Nazi paramilitary groups were posted on Avakov's Facebook page. Politico reported the "commander of Ukraine’s nationalist Azov Battalion, said that his volunteer fighters would arrest Firtash themselves if government forces failed to do so. He later posted a Facebook photo of his armed men waiting at Kiev's Borispol airport."
References
- ↑ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23745118.2016.1154646
- ↑ Affidavit of Viktor Shokin on Biden shakedown, September 4, 2019.
- ↑ A Ukrainian oligarch’s foiled homecoming, By LINDA KINSTLEr, Politico,, 12/3/15.