As Kiev burned last month, the upheaval didn’t stop a prominent Ukrainian businessman close to now-deposed President Victor Yanukovych from establishing a new business in Romania.

The Rise Project and bivol.bg, two Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) partners, investigated firms connected to Yanukovych’s former regime, and discovered that Rinat Ahmetov, a prominent billionaire and supporter of Yanukovych, recently opened a company in Bucharest.

Ahmetov owns numerous companies and one of Ukraine’s main football clubs, Shakhtar Donetsk. He was a major backer of the Yanukovich regime and has been seen numerous times in the company of the former president who treated him as a close friend.

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