sentences:  The company was affected by a series of financial irregularities leading to criminal charges against the principals and closure of the company in 2009.In 1989, Yulia Tymoshenko founded a family cooperative in Dnipropetrovsk.In 1991, Tymoshenko, her husband, Oleksandr, and Olexandr Gravetsas created the Ukrainian Petrol Company, a vendor of gasoline to farmers in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.