A court in Vienna has decided against extraditing Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash from Austria to Spain, saying Madrid had not provided enough proof linking Firtash to alleged crimes, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Ukraine's manufacturer of mineral fertilizers Cherkasy-based PJSC Azot, which is part of the Ostchem holding owned by businessman Dmytro Firtash, has resumed the production of ammonia and carbamide after overhauls, according to Ostchem's press service.
Billionaire Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash is at "great risk" of being brought from Austria to face justice in a Chicago courtroom "within weeks," his lawyer told a federal judge Monday, Chicago Tribune wrote.
Ukraine has not supplied electricity to annexed Crimea since the end of December 2015, and power lines that tied mainland Ukraine with the peninsula are disconnected, according to Vsevolod Kovalchuk, CEO of the country's united energy grid, Ukrenergo.
The Vienna Regional Court on Tuesday rejected the request of the Spanish judiciary to extradite a Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash, according to Austria's Kurier.
While U.S. President Donald Trump is doing his best to undermine an investigation of his campaign's alleged ties to the Russian government, his Department of Justice is not backing off its pursuit of a Kremlin-backed Ukrainian oligarch, according to The Chicago Tribune.
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (ACU) recognized the fact of abuse of the monopoly position in the mineral fertilizers market in 2014-2015 by the companies owned by Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash's Ostchem Holding: Azot, Sievierodonetsk Azot Association, Rivneazot, as well as NF Trading Ukraine, according to the ACU's investigation materials presented by the All-Ukrainian Agrarian Council.
The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine has opened criminal proceedings regarding a Cabinet decision to transfer the state-owned distribution gas networks to management by regional gas distribution companies 70% of which are controlled by Ukrainian tycoon Dmytro Firtash and his partners, according to liga.net.
Ukraine’s key creditors, the IMF and EBRD, have confirmed their forecasts of GDP growth for Ukraine in 2017, while the Cabinet saves Odesa Portside Chemical plant from bankruptcy and extends emergency measures in the energy sector - these are the main economic news of the past week.