Some old digs
Had seen the name Optima in relation to Ukraine Companies while digging telecoms/illegal activity/trollfarms from companies owned by Ukrainian Oligarchs, which led into China ties.
Rough notes but context is there.
There are a bunch of companies under the "Optima" name, connected to Igor Kolomoisky.
This deals with Optima Telecom in Ukraine.
System capital Management acquired Optima Telecom in 2005
In 2005 Ukraine's leading financial and industrial group System Capital Management has acquired Farlep-Invest Holding and Optima Telecom, and consolidated these assets into Farlep-Optima group. From 2005 to 2008 SCM has acquired and successfully merged a number of assets, including companies CSS, IP Telecom, Matrix, Vilcom, and over 30 others.
http://www.chamber.ua/en/Membership/MembersListPage/8841note
Farlep is actually the operational management arm of Vega Telecommunicatioins
Vega Telecommunications Group is among the leading players of the Ukrainian market of fixed telephony, broadband Internet access and data transfer.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_Telecommunications_Group
RINAT AKHMETOV/ SYSTEM CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
System Capital Management is A major Ukrainian financial and industrial holding company Controlled by Rinat Akhmetov.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCM_Holdings
Rinat Akhmetov is a Ukranian Billionaire businessman and oligarch. Accusations of ties to organized crime have never stuck. He is a practicing Sunni Muslim.
Released in a WikiLeaks diplomatic cable, Volodymyr Horbulin, one of Ukraine's most respected policy strategists and former presidential advisor, told the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine in 2006 that the Party of Regions, which "enjoyed deep pockets, being largely financed by billionaire Donetsk boss Rinat Akhmetov" is partly composed of "pure criminals" and "criminal and anti-democracy figures".[37] In a U.S. diplomatic cable dated 3 February 2006, then U.S. Ambassador John Herbst referred to Akhmetov's Party of Regions as "long a haven for Donetsk-based mobsters and oligarchs" and called Akhmetov the "godfather" of the Donetsk clan
. The largest company in the SCM Group is Metinvest, which is a mining and steel business and is generally agreed to be Ukraine's largest private business and is one of the larger steel businesses in Europe.
Following the Orange Revolution, Akhmetov was pivotal in arranging a lasting relationship between his employee and close friend Paul Manafort and defeated presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovich.[79] Also, Akhmetov ensured proper translation services for Manafort through Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russia Army trained linguist and known Russian intelligence operative that operates Manafort's office in Kiev.[80] Kilimnik has been central to collecting fees owed to Manafort's company by the Russia-friendly political party called Opposition Bloc.[80]
Manafort asked Kilimnik to pass the data to Ukrainians Serhiy Lyovochkin and Rinat Akhmetov.
Rinat Akhmetov and Viktor Pinchuk purchased a steel factory, Kryorizhstal, in 2004.
In 2004 Pinchuk and Rinat Akhmetov, two of Ukraine's richest men, acquired the Kryvorizhstal steel factory for about $800 million.[5] Later, the first Tymoshenko Government reversed this sale, and held a nationally-televised repeat auction that netted $4.8 Billion.
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