[5] This entity was the first such organization in the post-soviet territory, which served most successful sportsmen from the former Soviet Union and provided legal, consulting and management support, as well as their employment abroad.
[5] From 1996 to 1999, he was president of the law firm "First Legal Club", which represented the majority of the athletes former USSR gaining them employment abroad.
[5][6] In 2001, during a campaign to discredit Omelchenko, Artemenko became a subject of attention by the General Prosecutor's Office because of his close connection to the Mayor.
[5] Although all charges against Artemenko were subsequently dropped in 2007 by Kyiv prosecutor Renat Kuzmin (Russian: Ренат Кузьмин) and the courts of Ukraine confirmed the illegitimacy of the claims, he had spent 2 years 7 months and 21 days in prison.
[5] From 2008 to 2012, his main activities were logistical support of Ukraine and NATO forces[5] in North Africa and the Middle East: Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Afghanistan and other countries of the region.
In 2012, he participated in the implementation of a major innovative project in Qatar, which is associated with induced effects on the environment in order to increase the humidity and precipitation.
Therefore, he responded to the invitation of the leader of the Radical Party, Oleh Lyashko, and agreed to be on the list[8] for early parliamentary elections in October 2014.
The "Solidarity of Right Forces" party set a goal to participate in all upcoming elections: local, parliamentary, and presidential.
Before the Maidan uprising beginning in November 2013 against pro-Russia, pro-Kremlin, pro-Putin policies of Viktor Yanukovych and the Party of Regions, which were supported by Paul Manafort and Rudy Giuliani,[a] Artemenko was in the post-Party of Regions block established by Manafort who, according to sources, was receiving payments from pro-Russia, pro-Kremlin, pro-Putin sources.
[3][10][11][12][13] He was the Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on issues of European integration, Subcommittees on Cooperation of Ukraine and NATO and EU Common Security and Defense Policy.
Some of representative bills are: number 1601 "On Amendments to the administrative-territorial system of Luhansk region, changing and setting boundaries of Popasnjansky and Slavyanoserbsk districts of Luhansk region", number 1310 "On Amendments to Article 41 of the Law of Ukraine" On Joint Stock Companies" (with respect to the quorum of the general meetings of joint stock companies with majority state corporate rights), the bill number 1736 "On the appeal of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to the European Parliament, the Parliament of the Council of Europe and the national parliaments of the EU Member States, the USA, Canada, Japan and Australia on the issue of the mass shooting of people near Volnovakha", the Resolution number 2066 "On holding parliamentary hearings entitled: "Perspectives of introducing a visa-free regime for the citizens of Ukraine by the European Union" (May 21–22, 2015).
[18] According to one of his posts on his Facebook page, Andrii Artemenko was introduced to Michael Cohen and others by the Ukrainian oligarch Alex Oronov.
[19][20][21][22][23][b] During a Ukraine-focus conference at Philadelphia's Manor College in February 2016, Artemenko was involved in the development of a peace plan for Ukraine that he called the Rovt-Weldon plan named after Curt Weldon, who was a former congressman that introduced Artemenko to Dana Rohrabacher and Rob Portman, and Alexander Rovt, who is a New York real estate investor.
[2][19][33] Valeriy Chaly, who was the Ukraine Ambassador to the United States, stated that Artemenko was "not authorized to present any alternative peace proposal on behalf of Ukraine to foreign governments, including the US administration" (Russian: "не уполномочен представлять любое альтернативное мирное предложение от имени Украины иностранным правительствам, включая администрацию США").
[35][36] Artemenko was deprived of Ukrainian citizenship on 29 April 2017,[37][38] was ousted as a member of the Rada on 16 May 2017,[39] and was forced to leave Ukraine together with his family on 15 May 2017.
[3][47] In December 2019, Artemenko appeared on One America News Network with Giuliani and Andrii Telizhenko allegedly to disseminate disinformation.
[2][49] According to Derkach with support from Giuliani, Derkach, who launched a website NabuLeaks, proposed organizing an interparliamentary group called Friends of Ukraine STOP Corruption which included Devin Nunes, Mick Mulvaney, Lindsey Graham, Ron Johnson, Chuck Grassley, and Jim Jordan.
[55][c] Artemenko is under FBI scrutiny for his work alongside Giuliani and suspected Russian agent Andrii Derkach in their efforts to produce dirt on Hunter and Joe Biden.
[47][57] Forensic News also found that a lobbying company controlled by Artemenko Global Management Association, which is a lobbying firm established in December 2018 and has had business with individuals closely tied to Putin's government, disguised a 2019 payment from the Viktor Medvedchuk associated Ukraine television channel 112 Ukraine, which was an alleged Russian proxy, to appear as though it came from an oil company, but Tetiana Shevchuk of the Anti-Corruption Action Centre stated, "This is money laundering.
[7] Through Skyway International, Vadim Trincher, who operated a gambling and money laundering operation in unit 63A in Trump Tower in New York involving Molly Bloom, Alimzhan Tokhtakhunov and others,[61][62][63][64] oversaw Global Assets INC. which is a Florida registered company which lists Artemenko and his wife as owners.
[7][65] Andy Kuchma is currently the co-owner and Executive Chairman of Airtrans LLC that is part of the Erik Prince led Frontier Resource Group.
[2] He is also actively developing (co-owner and President, American Industrial Group Inc.) a manufacturing company in the US that provides sustainable disinfectant and other personal protective equipment in the current COVID-19 pandemic.
His IT company (owner and President, AlphaNet Technologies, Inc.), which previously successfully pioneered the online educational project Eduboard.com, in cooperation with ZAKA is working on implementing the blockchain based COVID-19 immunity passport project (NewNorm) - to enable people to prove their COVID-19 health status to institutions without compromising their privacy.
[2] Andrii Artemenko voluntarily became a citizen of Canada in 2005 and lives permanently in Washington DC with his wife and children.