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He's a former business partner of Donald Trump's campaign manager Paul Manafort, and a fugitive from U.S. law enforcement. But will Ukrainian billionaire oligarch Dmytro Firtash ever face justice in a Chicago courtroom? Indicted by a federal grand jury in Chicago in 2014, the 50-year-old Firtash is painted in court papers as a regular Bond villain, accused of masterminding an international titanium-mining racket. With references to Swiss bank accounts, bribes for corrupt Indian politicians and links to Chicago-based airplane manufacturer Boeing, the case reads like a spy thriller.

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