Leonid Derkach
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Leonid Vasyliovych Derkach was a Soviet and Ukrainian politician, intelligence officer, and general who was Head of the Security Service of Ukraine from 22 April 1998 to 10 February 2001. Called the "
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Dnipropetrovsk Mafia
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The Dnipropetrovsk mafia, also known as the Dnipropetrovsk clan or simply Dnipropetrovtsi, is a group of Ukrainian oligarchs, politicians, and organised crime figures, and formerly Soviet politicians.
Leonid Derkach
…of Ukraine from 22 April 1998 to 10 February 2001. Called the "Ukrainian Sorge" (Russian: "Украинский Зорге"), he headed one of the five groups in the Dnipropetrovsk Mafia. The Derkach family maintains very close relationships with Oleg Deripaska, Mikhail Fridman's Moscow-based Alfa Group and Petr Aven's Alfa-Bank. Both…
Dnipro (formerly Dnipropetrovsk) in 2015
Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Dnipropetrovsk Mafia and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1964–1982)
Leonid Kuchma, originally leader of the Dnipropetrovsk Mafia, later President of Ukraine
Yulia Tymoshenko (pictured here in 2010), a close follower of Lazarenko, became one of the leaders of the Dnipropetrovsk Mafia after the latter's flight from Ukraine.