Serhiy Lyovochkin and Rinat Akhmetov, two Ukrainian oligarchs who had paid Paul Manafort for years for his political work in their country, were the intended recipients of the American polling data that Manafort shared with Konstantin Kilimnik during the 2016 presidential campaign, a person familiar with the matter said on Jan. 9.
CNN: Manafort intended for polling data to go to 2 Ukrainian oligarchs who owed him millions
(FILES) A picture taken on March 30, 2006 displays Ukraine richest man Rinat Akhmetov waving before a press conference in Kyiv. Akhmetov is the multi-billionaire owner of System Capital Management, a conglomerate whose interests range from mining and metals, to banking and the media. In the southeastern industrial city of Donetsk, whose region is home to the country's biggest concentration of mining, metal and chemical industry, it's hard to escape the presence of one man -- Rinat Akhmetov.
