{"id":"dmytro-firtash","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/dmytro-firtash","language":"en","name":"Dmytro Firtash","name_en":"Dmytro Firtash","name_ne":null,"description":"Ukrainian businessman, oligarch","headline":"Ukrainian businessman, oligarch","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Dmytro Vasylovych Firtash (Ukrainian: Дмитро Васильович Фірташ; born 2 May 1965) is a Ukrainian businessman who heads the board of directors of Group DF.  He was highly influential during the Yushchenko administration and the Yanukovych administration. As a middleman for the Russian natural gas giant Gazprom and with connections to the Kremlin, Firtash funneled money into the campaigns of pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine. Firtash obtained his position with the agreement of Russian president Vladimir Putin and, according to Firtash, Russian organized crime boss Semion Mogilevich.","summary_more":["His many roles during the Yushchenko administration included: presidency of the Federation of Employers of Ukraine (FEU), an interest association of industrial enterprises that he chairs; chairmanship of the National Tripartite Social and Economic Council (NTSEC); co-chairmanship of Domestic and Foreign Investors Advisory Council under the Ministry of Education, Science, Youth and Sports of Ukraine; and membership in the Committee for Economic Reforms under the President of Ukraine.","The United States Justice Department has characterized Firtash as an \"upper-echelon [associate] of Russian organized crime.\" He was arrested by Austrian authorities in March 2014 and has since been in Vienna fighting extradition to the United States, where he is under federal indictment for an alleged bribery scheme. American attorneys Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing, associates of then-US president Donald Trump and his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, were hired by Firtash in July 2019 to fight his extradition, as Giuliani sought information in Ukraine to damage Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"2 May 1965","date":"1965-05-02"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q906898#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Synkiv","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4420523"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q906898#P19"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Ukraine","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q906898#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"businessperson","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43845"},{"text":"firefighter","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107711"},{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q906898#P106"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"National Academy of Internal Affairs of Ukraine","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4314794"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q906898#P69"}},{"key":"website","label":"Official website","values":[{"text":"dmitryfirtash.com","url":"http://dmitryfirtash.com/"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q906898#P856"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Order of the Badge of Honour","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q960966"},{"text":"Order of St. Seraphim of Sarov","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4336016"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q906898#P166"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmytro_Firtash","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q906898","http://dmitryfirtash.com/"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Dmytro Firtash born?","a":"Dmytro Firtash was born on 2 May 1965 in Synkiv."},{"q":"Where did Dmytro Firtash study?","a":"Dmytro Firtash was educated at National Academy of Internal Affairs of Ukraine."}],"related":[{"name":"Kostyantyn Zhevago","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/kostyantyn-zhevago"},{"name":"Petro Poroshenko","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/petro-poroshenko"},{"name":"Rinat Akhmetov","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/rinat-akhmetov"},{"name":"Vadym Novynskyi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/vadym-novynskyi"},{"name":"Andriy Verevskyi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/andriy-verevskyi"},{"name":"Mykola Zlochevsky","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mykola-zlochevsky"},{"name":"Oleksandr Yaroslavskyi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/oleksandr-yaroslavskyi"},{"name":"Serhiy Tihipko","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/serhiy-tihipko"},{"name":"Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/valeriy-khoroshkovskyi"},{"name":"Vitaliy Khomutynnik","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/vitaliy-khomutynnik"},{"name":"Anatolii Mohyliov","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/anatolii-mohyliov"},{"name":"Denys Shmyhal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/denys-shmyhal"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/dmytro-firtash-189d9866e2.jpg","width":500,"height":348,"license":"CC BY 3.0","credit":"Authorized Ukrainian TV channel « Inter » Youtube stream","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dmytro_Firtash.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Dmytro Firtash","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmytro_Firtash","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q906898","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q906898","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Dmytro Firtash.jpg by Authorized Ukrainian TV channel « Inter » Youtube stream (CC BY 3.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dmytro_Firtash.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Dmytro Firtash, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Dmytro Firtash.jpg — Authorized Ukrainian TV channel « Inter » Youtube stream, CC BY 3.0.","cite":"\"Dmytro Firtash\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/dmytro-firtash. Retrieved 6 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T12:00:53Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-06","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/dmytro-firtash","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/dmytro-firtash","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/dmytro-firtash?lang=ne"}}