DPR imposed sanctions against Akhmetov’s business partner
The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, introduced sanctions by a special decree against the Ukrainian billionaire of Donetsk origin Igor Gumenyuk, the business partner of the oligarch Rinat Akhmetov.
“A special personal sanction was applied in the form of transferring property owned by him as private property into state ownership,” Pushilin’s press service said in a statement.
Pushilin instructed DPR Prime Minister Alexander Ananchenko to ensure that real estate properties belonging to Gumenyuk were taken into state ownership.
The property will be assigned the right of operational management to the administration of the head of the DPR.
Let us note that in 2013, before the Euromaidan, when Gumenyuk was a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the Party of Regions, the Ukrainian media estimated his fortune at hundreds of millions of dollars.
In 2014, Forbes estimated Gumenyuk’s fortune at $520 million.
Before the war, the Investment and Development company, co-owned by Gumenyuk, was considered the largest rentier in Donetsk. She owned the Victoria Hotel and the Donetsk City shopping center.
Gumenyuk is also a co-owner of the Rixos Prykarpattya hotel in Truskavets, where trainings were recently held for newly elected deputies from Vladimir Zelensky’s party.
Let us also recall that members of the Akhmetov-oriented fragment of the Party of Regions – the “Opposition Bloc” – were included in Russia’s sanctions list due to their refusal to create a single list with the political force of Viktor Medvedchuk on the eve of the elections and not to split the votes of voters in the South-East of Ukraine.
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