A controversial Ukrainian powerbroker’s rehabilitation campaign is hitting unexpected snags.
Dmytro Firtash, the exiled oligarch who wants to make a comeback at home, was forced to cancel plans to return to Kiev this week after a government minister said the businessman would be arrested if he set foot in Ukraine.
Firtash called the warnings “political persecution.”
“I deeply regret that the current Ukrainian government has taken unprecedented steps and done everything possible to prevent my return to Ukraine,” he said in a statement released Tuesday by the Federation of Employers of Ukraine, whose annual congress he was supposed to preside over in Kiev …read more
Source: European Voice
