In the summer of 1998, up-and-coming political and business star Viktor Pinchuk had just moved to Kyiv from his native Dnipropetrovsk. Only 38, he already had led an extraordinary life: He had built an international steel pipes business, had begun buying up television stations, and was dating President Leonid Kuchma’s daughter.
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Ukraine’s ex-President Leonid Kuchma addresses journalists as he arrives at the General Prosecutor’s Office in Kyiv on March 24, 2011, for questioning as a suspect in the Sept. 16, 2000, murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze. He denies involvement.
