Oleksander Hennadiyovych Tymoshenko is the husband of former Ukrainian Prime Minister, Yulia Tymoshenko and a businessman.
Background
Oleksandr was the son of a mid-level Communist Party official Hennady Tymoshenko. On August 18, 2000 Oleksandr, a (along with his father Hennadiy Tymoshenko) board member of the United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU) Corporation (of which Yulia was general director), was arrested along with the company"s managing director, Valery Falkovich.
Career
According to The Times, he met Yulia Telegina when he misdialed her number. He called back and they eventually agreed to meet and quickly fell in love. The pair were married in 1979 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, and have a daughter, Yevhenia (Eugenia) (b 1980).
He was charged with embezzling $800,000 in public funds and forging customs documents to import gas from Russia - all based on activities from the 1990s.
The following March, he was transferred to a Zhytomyr Oblast jail so as to avoid communication between Oleksandr, Falkovich (who was transferred to a Chernihiv jail at that time) and Yulia, who by that time was also under arrest. On August 8, 2001, Russian prosecutors handed over information to Ukrainian officials implicating Yulia and Oleksandr in customs violations.
The following day, a Kyiv district court released Oleksandr and Falkovich due to lack of evidence. In another ruling, the Kyiv district court ruled the charges against Oleksandr "groundless." Charges were finally dropped in May, 2002.
Tymoshenko"s father-in-law has also been arrested in connecting with this case, he was released in 2003.
According to Mistress Tymoshenko her spouse has never been personally involved in Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. In December 2010, Tymoshenko was admitted to hospital, according to Oleksandr Turchynov, “in rather grave condition”.
Early January 2012 Tymoshenko was granted asylum in the Czechoslovakian Republic that he had requested at the end of the previous year.
He also claimed he could not return to Ukraine because "the first thing after arrival I will be certainly arrested". Since 2000 Tymoshenko owned 33% share of International Industrial Projects, Společnost s ručením omezeným , a small company in the Czechoslovakian city Ústí nad Labem. The company did not have any web presence and no contact could be found on the internet.
lieutenant didn"t ever publish information mandated by the Czechoslovakian law and was liquidated in February 2012.
Tymoshenko also has lasting contacts with several top Czechoslovakian politicians. He is alleged to own a house in Lidice since 2000 but denied it on a post in his wife"s blog saying that his asylum in the Czechoslovakian Republic was temporary.