The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has appointed his adviser billionaire Yuri Kosyuk, which is the owner of the agricultural holding "MHP" , informs ITAR-TASS.

"Signed a decree on dismissal of Yuri Kosyuk with the post of first Deputy head of the presidential administration of Ukraine and appointed his adviser", - wrote Poroshenko in his microblog on Twitter.

Yuriy Kosyuk was born in 1968, graduated from the Kiev Institute of food technologies. In 1998 he founded the holding company Myronivsky Hliboproduct, which by now has become one of the largest in Ukraine. MHP has assets in Donetsk region, where poultry mining Nova, producing 54 million eggs a year (share in the authorized capital of the company - 5 230 345 UAH), as well as meat processing plant "Ukrainian bacon" with production capacity of 23 tons of specialty items per year (share in bldg 1 500 000 UAH). Also in the Donetsk region is one of the grain companies Dobrovolsky CCP.The Kosyuk were assets in the Crimea (land assets and livestock farm JLLC "Friendship" poultry farm "Druzhba Narodiv Nova" meat "Friendship of peoples", "Crimean fruit company"), and poultry in the Dnipropetrovsk region and a feed mill in the Kherson region.

Kosyuk became the first Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine this summer. According to the latest ranking of Forbes, Kosyuk is one of the ten richest people of Ukraine, its state is $ 1.3 billion.