Tariel Vasadze
Tariel Shakrovych Vasadze () (born October 15, 1947) is a Ukrainian businessman of Georgian descent, chairman and main shareholder of the UkrAVTO JSC and UkrAVTO Group. He was the chief executive of UkrAVTO since 1983, leading this once state-owned company through privatization and restructuring to a role of Ukraine's main automobile manufacturer, servicer and importer. Later Vasadze's business was diversified by entering the insurance market. His wealth was estimated in 2007 at being around US$ 780 million. But because car sales in Ukraine during 2009 fell by 72 percent his wealth was late 2010 estimated at US$230 million. Career Vasadze participates in Ukrainian politics, first as an advisor to Prime Minister Anatoliy Kinakh in 2002. Also in 2002 he was elected a member of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) for For United Ukraine. Then he joined six factions and/or parliamentary groups: including the For United Ukraine faction, Labour Ukraine and Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine. His main and open political goal is to lobby the interests of automotive industry, particularly to protect and harmonize the business conditions for both the local manufacturers and the importers. In 2005 Vasadze became a member of Batkivschyna and thus part of the Yulia