Dmytro Firtash
| Dmytro Firtash Дмитро́ Фі́рташ |
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Dmytro Vasylovych Firtash 2 May 1965 ukr, Ukraine, Soviet Union |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Website | dmitryfirtash |
Dmytro Vasylovych Firtash (Ukrainian: Дмитро́ Васи́льович Фі́рташ; born 2 May 1965) is a Ukrainian businessman, investor and philanthropist. He is head of the board of directors of Group DF. He was highly influential during the Yuschenko administration, he was President of the Federation of Employers of Ukraine (FEU), He was Chairman of the National Tripartite Social and Economic Council (NTSEC), He was Co-Chairman of Domestic and Foreign Investors Advisory Council under the Ministry of Education, Science, Youth and Sports of Ukraine, and was a member of the Committee for Economic Reforms under the President of Ukraine.
Firtash has not yet returned to Ukraine since the Maidan revolution of 2014. The current status of many of his various offices and titles within Ukraine are not clear; specifically those not directly related to his own business holdings. To date, he has retained ownership of his assets within Ukraine, including those areas presently under Russian control. Firtash was arrested by Austrian authorities in March 2014. In February 2017, the Vienna Court of Appeals ordered that Firtash be extradited to the United States, to face charges that he had secured a titanium extraction permit in India through $18.5 million in bribes.
Firtash was born on 2 May 1965 in Bohdanivka (in the Zalishchiky Raion of Ternopil oblast), of the former Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union; now Synkiv, Ukraine.
Firtash started in business almost immediately after completing his military service. He founded his own trading company first in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, eventually moving to Moscow in the early 1990s.
In 2007, a private international group of companies, Group DF ("the Firtash group of companies") was formed to consolidate Firtash's business assets in different sectors. Presently, Group DF incorporates assets in the chemical industry, energy sector and real estate, and this consolidation effort is still underway.
In 2008, Firtash was involved with a firm owned by Paul Manafort in a $895 million project to redevelop the Drake Hotel in New York City into a spa and luxury mall to be called Bulgari Tower. According to court records, Firtash's firm had planned to invest $100 million in the project. The deal was never finalized.
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