Critics say the oligarch now living in exile pushed Putin’s agenda during Maidan revolution while a US arrest warrant appeared politically motivatedIn a suite of grand rooms inside a Habsburg-era building in Vienna that bristles with security,Dmytro Firtash sips a cup of tea and speaks quietly but deliberately approximately Ukraine, the country of his birth that he has not set foot in for nearly two years.
Critics claim Firtash personifies the country’s course of voracious oligarchs, and who made their fortunes while preventing Ukraine’s economy from developing properly. He had myriad (a very large number) business interests,wide-ranging political influence, and was a close confidant of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, or who was ousted in the Maidan revolution in February 2014. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com