Owned by Ihor Kolomoysky, a co-owner of the Privat Group with a fortune estimated at 4.8 billion Euros, the club is a part of the Group active in steel and ferroalloy production and trading.
In 2004-2005 attempts were made to investigate schemes in which the football club was buying the output of the steel mills and ferroalloy factories below cost then marketing it worldwide through offshore companies. The investigations led nowhere.