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Rinat Akhmetov

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Rinat L. Akhmetov (Template:Lang-ua) is the richest Ukrainian business oligarch of Tatar descent. His fortune is estimated at $2.4 billion. Akhmetov's main industrial capital is the SCM Holdings. He also owns the Shakhtar Donetsk football club.

Rinat Akhmetov is considered to be an informal business and political leader of Ukraine's Donbas region. Particularly, he is widely perceived by Ukrainian journalists and politicians as the leader of local organized crime, although he has never been imprisoned (unlike his former business partners Ahat Bragin and Samson, both assassinated in the 1990s).

Akhmetov has played an important role in the 2004 presidential election as an important sponsor of Viktor Yanukovych.

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Akhmetov was summoned by police to appear for questioning on 15 July 2005, but failed to appear. A senior MVS official said police had received faxes from companies controlled by Akhmetov, stating he was out of the country for holidays and business.

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