Oleg Bakhmatyuk is a Ukrainian entrepreneur, former billionaire, and politician.
13 Facts About Oleg Bakhmatyuk
Oleg Bakhmatyuk is the owner of the agricultural vertical integrated company UkrLandFarming, and one of the largest egg producers in both Europe and Asia.
Oleg Bakhmatyuk was sold in 2010 to pay off debts to the competitor company Pakko-Holding.
Oleg Bakhmatyuk was later appointed as the Advisor to the Head of Naftogaz.
Oleg Bakhmatyuk later sold his controlling stake to the RosUkrEnergo AG company, owned by Dmytro Firtash, in 2007.
On January 17,2007, Oleg Bakhmatyuk was dismissed from his held position at Naftogaz, as well as from the public service.
In November 2019, Oleg Bakhmatyuk was put on the national wanted list on suspicions of embezzling nearly $50 million before VAB Bank's license was revoked in 2015.
Oleg Bakhmatyuk is the only one of their ex-owners of liquidated banks who proposed to cover the bank's debts to the Deposit Guarantee Fund and the NBU.
In 2003, Oleg Bakhmatyuk bought the Avangard poultry factory and created a company with the same name.
In 2010, Oleg Bakhmatyuk bought the assets of the United States chicken processing company Townsends Inc.
In 2011, Oleg Bakhmatyuk founded UkrLandFarming, a major vertically integrated agricultural holding of Ukraine, which is the largest agricultural lands lessee, producing grain and breeding cattle.
Oleg Bakhmatyuk won the 2009 award in the national program Person of the Year, for the Agrarian of the Year category.
Oleg Bakhmatyuk is married and has three daughters and one son.