An oligarch close to Yatsenyuk died in Ukraine
In the Zhytomyr region, on the 215th kilometer of the Kyiv-Chop highway, a Ukrainian businessman, founder of the Aval bank and ex-Verkhovna Rada deputy Fedor Shpig, who was regularly included in the lists of the richest Ukrainians, died.
This was reported by the Espresso TV channel, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“The accident happened on the Kyiv-Chop highway. According to preliminary data, the car in which the banker was driving flew into a ditch and caught fire. Fedor Shpits and his driver died on the spot, another passenger was taken to the hospital in serious condition,” the report says.
Fyodor Shpig was a partner of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who in the early 2000s began his career at Aval Bank, and businessman Alexander Derkach, considered the “dairy king” of Ukraine.
It is interesting that Shpiga’s son, Andrei, is the nominal owner of the IMAX cinema chain, although Yatsenyuk was named as their real owner in the media. Together with Derkach, Shpig in recent years specialized in lending to agricultural businesses and owned a number of agricultural enterprises. It is noteworthy that his death occurred the day after the Rada adopted the land market law.
An oligarch close to Yatsenyuk has died in Ukraine.