[8][9][10][11] He was charged with embezzling $800,000 in public funds and forging customs documents to import gas from Russia – all based on activities from the 1990s.
On 8 August 2001, Russian prosecutors handed over information to Ukrainian officials implicating Yulia and Oleksandr in customs violations.
[12][13] The prosecutor's office, however, appealed the ruling and continued the case against Oleksandr, leading him to spend two years in hiding to avoid prosecution on charges he and his wife say are trumped up.
[17] Early January 2012 Tymoshenko was granted asylum in the Czech Republic that he had requested at the end of the previous year.
[22] Since 2000 Tymoshenko owned 33% share of International Industrial Projects, s.r.o., a small company in Ústí nad Labem.
[26] It was alleged that he had owned a house in Lidice since 2000,[27] but he denied this accusation in a post in his wife's blog,[28] stating that his asylum in the Czech Republic was temporary.