after ukraine's orange revolution of late 2004, in an attempt to fight corruption, several prominent businessmen who were also party of regions members came under criminal investigation; in 2011, hennadiy moskal, who in 2005 acted as deputy minister of internal affairs of ukraine, gave an interview to ukrainian magazine профиль (profil-ua), where he claimed to have been under presidential orders in 2005 to investigate and audit akhmetov for his alleged role in organized crime. concrete evidence was never officially revealed against him, nor his company. according to moskal, the mvs investigated all incidents related to missing people in 1990s in donetsk region, who had any property left, and its current owners, but no connections with rinat akhmetov and his entourage were found. looking back, moskal concluded that "we had nothing on akhmetov in 2005". according to political journal's "post-soviet affairs", and "the nation", akhmetov was investigated on murder charges and for his alleged role in organized crime in the donetsk region. to avoid prosecution he was prompted to flee the country to monaco. in june 2005, serhiy kornich, then head of the interior ministry's economic crimes department, stated publicly that akhmetov was "the head of [an] organized crime group." that year, borys kolesnikov, a friend and associate who had been tied to akhmetov since the 1980s, was arrested on charges of extortion and conspiracy to assassinate a rival donetsk businessman. charges against akhmetov and kolesnikov were dropped in 2006 amid a significant rise in political power by the former, and the cooperation of the yuschenko government, ending akhmetov's exile.