Prodyvus Volodymyr Stepanovych

Former MP from the Party of Regions, President of the FBU — with a criminal background and pro-Russian ties

People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the VII convocation, elected as an independent candidate. Voted for the Dictatorship Laws on January 16, 2014. Frequently named in Ukrainian media as a well-known criminal authority connected with criminal groups in the late 1990s. In May 2014, he was personally involved in a shootout in Rivne region linked to illegal amber mining; later, media reported that he managed to establish control over amber extraction in the Sarny district. He was also named among the "shadow" shareholders of the Sofiivskyi bank and associated with "gray" schemes controlling the cash currency market.

Support for Kremlin-affiliate, absence during the war, and opaque port acquisition

In October 2020, under his leadership, the Ukrainian Boxing Federation nominated and supported the candidacy of Putin’s appointee Umar Kremlyov for the head of the International Federation, which caused a high-profile scandal. During the full-scale war, Prodyvus was absent from Ukraine for almost a year while continuing contacts with Kremlyov. In December 2024, his company LLC "Top-Offer" acquired the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Sea Port; the deal attracted attention due to suspicions about the transparency of the process and the new owner’s connections with political circles.