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OCCRP
December 18th, 2008

In 2005 the club’s president Volodymyr Paulio, called a “criminal authority” by police, was arrested on nearly 20 charges including gangsterism, terrorist act, mass unrest, murder attempts, and kidnapping, He had quartered scores of armed men at his stadium in 2004 and police arrested 36 and said about 150 escaped. In court, the reason came out that Paulio had gathered them to organize a series of pogroms during the election campaign of 2004 to discredit Viktor Yushchenko He ended up getting 3 years of probation and is no longer with the club.