Yeremeyev, 47, was the owner of Continuum, a group of companies that owns the chain of WOG gas stations. He was elected to Ukraine’s Parliament in 2002, 2012 and 2014. Ukraine’s Focus magazine estimated his net worth to be $95 million in 2015, making him Ukraine’s 68th richest person.
Yeremeyev was married. He leaves two children.
Yeremeyev’s accident occurred in Volyn Oblast in western Ukraine on July 26. He received first aid in a hospital in the regional capital Lutsk, and was then moved to Kyiv. On July 28 his press service announced that he had been medevaced to a clinic in Europe.
During his last term in Parliament, Yeremeyev was best known as the creator and leader of the Volya Narodu (People’s Will) group of 19 lawmakers, most of whom ran for election as independents. The group was dubbed by the Ukrainian media as the Group of Yeremeyev.
Yeremeyev was reported to be giving financial support to Ukrainian volunteer battalions fighting in the country’s east against combined Russian-separatist forces. His fund has donated Hr 40 million to these battalions since 2014, according to the fund’s own figures.
According to media reports, Yeremeyev had been in a coma since the accident.
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