Tariel Vasadze

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Tariel Shakrovych Vasadze (Ukrainian: Таріел Шакрович Васадзе) is a Ukrainian businessman of Georgian descent, chairman and main shareholder of the UkrAVTO JSC and UkrAVTO Group. He was the chief executive of UkrAVTO since 1983, leading this once state-owned company through privatization and restructuring to a role of Ukraine's main automobile manufacturer, servicer and importer. Later Vasadze's business was diversified by entering the insurance market.

Vasadze participates in Ukrainian politics, being a member of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) of 2002 and 2006 (incumbent) convocations. His main and open political goal is to lobby the interests of automotive industry, particularly to protect and harmonize the business conditions for both the local manufacturers and the importers. Tariel Vasadze is now a member of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc.

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