1. Kostyantyn Valentynovych Zhevago is a Ukrainian businessman, philanthropist and politician.
21 Facts About Kostyantyn Zhevago
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Kostyantyn Zhevago was a member of the Verkhovna Rada continuously for 21 years from 1998 until 2019.
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Kostyantyn Zhevago was born in the family of a mining engineer in the village of Iultin, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Magadan Oblast, in the former Soviet Union, and spent his childhood in the city of Dniprorudne, Zaporizhia Oblast in Ukraine.
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Kostyantyn Zhevago has been a citizen of Ukraine since 1991.
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In 1991, Zhevago entered the Kyiv National Economic University, specialising in accounting and analysis of foreign economic activity.
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In 2003, Kostyantyn Zhevago earned a PhD in Economics with a thesis in international investments and effective economic development at Kyiv National Economic University.
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Kostyantyn Zhevago is a member of FTSE250 and FTSE4Good Indices.
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Kostyantyn Zhevago was the largest shareholder of Avtokraz, where he invested significantly in the development of defense equipment, including the chassis for the Neptune missile complex, which played a pivotal role in the destruction of the Russian Black Sea Fleet's flagship Moscow, the wheeled self-propelled howitzer Bogdana, with which it was possible to recapture Zmiiniy Island in the Black Sea, the base for the Verba multiple launch rocket system.
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Kostyantyn Zhevago owns the Ukrainian Premier League football team Vorskla.
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Kostyantyn Zhevago was elected to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine at the age of 24 on 12 May 1998 and until 14 May 2002 and was a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 149th electoral district, located in Poltava Oblast.
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Kostyantyn Zhevago lost to the candidate from the ruling party "Servant of the People".
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In 2022, according to the Ukrainian magazine Forbes, Kostyantyn Zhevago entered the TOP-5 richest people in Ukraine.
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The decision explains that Kostyantyn Zhevago did not want to fulfill his obligations under the surety agreement to repay the bank's refinancing loans.
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The State Bureau of Investigation summoned Kostyantyn Zhevago for questioning on 27 September 2019.
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Kostyantyn Zhevago was unable to appear for questioning because he was abroad, and on 3 December, 2019 Zhevago was declared an international wanted man and permission was granted for his detention.
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On 27 December 2022, Kostyantyn Zhevago was detained in Courchevel, France at the request of Ukraine's State Bureau of Investigation.
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On 29 December 2022, the French court of Chambery ordered the extradition arrest of Kostyantyn Zhevago, he was notified of the suspicion of committing criminal offenses provided for in Part 3 of Art.
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In May 2024, Kostyantyn Zhevago received a new suspicion of withdrawing UAH 519 million from the Finance and Credit bank in collusion with two deputies.
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Kostyantyn Zhevago has been named as the party who allegedly bribed the Chair Person of the Ukraine Supreme Court Vsevolod Kniaziev in 2023.
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Kostyantyn Zhevago himself was in France at the time of the crime and at the beginning of the investigation, and denies any involvement in this case stating that the accusation is politically motivated.
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Kostyantyn Zhevago denies all accusation, as he personally and his companies are on the Russian Federation's sanctions list from October 2018.