akhmetov founded system capital management group (jsc "scm") in 2000, and has been its sole proprietor since 2009. during his career scm has grown to be one of ukraine's leading financial and industrial firms with assets including over 100 businesses in metals and mining, power generation, banking and insurance, telecommunications, media and real estate; and revenues of around $12.8 billion and has assets worth over $22.7 billion. the largest company in the scm group is metinvest, which is a mining and steel business and is generally agreed to be ukraine's largest private business and is one of the larger steel businesses in europe.