Since March 2014 Serhiy Kurchenko has been on the international wanted list, and his property and other assets have been arrested.
22 Facts About Serhiy Kurchenko
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Until the end of 2012 information about Serhiy Kurchenko was scarce and it surfaced with a scandal around the sale of FC Metalist Kharkiv.
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In October 2017, a Ukrainian court confiscated Metalist Kharkiv from Serhiy Kurchenko and placed it under state property.
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Serhiy Kurchenko was born 21 September 1985 into a low-income family in Kharkiv, Saltivka residential neighborhood.
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Serhiy Kurchenko graduated with a Bachelor in Accounting and Auditing, followed by studies in "Intellectual Property" from 2006 to 2008 resulting in a master's degree.
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Serhiy Kurchenko started working as a courier for Naftogaz, Ukraine's national oil and gas company, when he was 16.
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Serhiy Kurchenko left Ekspogaz and started his own business in 2005 at the age of 19 years.
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In 2009, Serhiy Kurchenko founded a group of companies named "Gas Ukraine 2009".
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Per the FC Metalist press-office Serhiy Kurchenko met with head coach Myron Markevich, General Director Sergei Volik and Sport Director Eugene Krasnikov on 30 December 2012, in the office of Gas Ukraine 2009 in Kyiv.
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Ivan Savvidis, the controlling shareholder of Greek FC PAOK, suggested that Serhiy Kurchenko was not the owner of FC Metalist.
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Early October 2017, a Ukrainian court confiscated Metalist Kharkiv from Serhiy Kurchenko and placed it under state property.
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On 23 August 2013, Serhiy Kurchenko met with the editors of Ukrainian Media Holding and presented a new structure named VETEK Media.
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Serhiy Kurchenko gives no interviews, no live comments, and makes no appearances on open business forums, releasing only prepared press releases.
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Since the same month Serhiy Kurchenko has been on the international wanted list.
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Serhiy Kurchenko was put on the US and EU sanctions list.
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Serhiy Kurchenko is accused of buying liquefied gas at specialized auctions at a discounted price.
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Serhiy Kurchenko moved to luxurious are of Rublyovka, near Moscow, where he has a mansion worth of 2.1 billion rubles.
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In 2017, Serhiy Kurchenko had already an active business life in Moscow visited and periodically visited the presidential administration and the Russian government, the offices of Rosneft, Lukoil, Gazprombank, VTB, the First Czech-Russian Bank, Roscosmos.
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Serhiy Kurchenko took active participation in "Committee for the Rescue of Ukraine" and met regularly former pro-Russian deputies of the Verkhovna Rada Elena Bondarenko and Vladimir Saldo, who in 2022 became the civilian leader of Russian-occupied Kherson Oblast.
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The Insider told in October 2023 that Serhiy Kurchenko is the mainly sponsor of FSB General Vladimir Petrovsky, who serves as the First Deputy Head of the FSB's Fifth Service Operational Information Department and leads Ninth Directorate.
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Serhiy Kurchenko gained exclusive access to Ukrainian assets in the occupied territories with his ties with the FSB.
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Serhiy Kurchenko was sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War.