Ukraine and the Clinton-Pinchuk Connection. Reeping the Spoils of Regime Change | Global Research

Ukraine and the Clinton-Pinchuk Connection. Reeping the Spoils of Regime Change | Global Research

 

At the table in Kiev where the formal agreement between the
government, the opposition, the European Union and Russia was
negotiated, there officially sat no representative of the powerful
international oligarchy which – with closer ties to Washington and NATO
than to Brussels and the EU – is pushing Ukraine towards the West. An
emblematic case is Viktor Pinchuk, steel magnate, 54, ranked by Forbes
Magazine among the richest men in the world.

Pinchuk started amassing his fortune in 2002 when he married Elena,
daughter of Leonid Kuchma, the second President of Ukraine (1994-2005).
In 2004 his illustrious father-in-law privatized Kryvorizhstal, the
largest steel plant in Ukraine, by selling it to the Interpipe Group,
co-owned by his son-in-law, for USD 800 million, about one sixth of its
real value. Interpipe thus gained monopoly power over steel pipe
production. In 2007, Pinchuk founded EastOne Group Ltd., an
international investment advisory company, which provides to
multinationals all the tools for penetrating the economies of the East.
At the same time, he became the owner of four TV channels plus a popular
tabloid (Facts and Comments) with a circulation topping one
million copies. Without however neglecting charity, he created the
Viktor Pinchuk Foundation, said to be the largest private Ukrainian «
philanthropic organization. »