The Antimonopoly Committee has allowed 20 companies to create a voluntary association of enterprises and organizations - the "Bohdana" corporation (Kyiv). This was reported by the AMCU press service.\n\nAccording to the report, the corporation was created with the purpose of providing consultative, legal, material and technical assistance to enterprises in organizing the process of production, sale and servicing of vehicles.\n\nThe founders of the corporation are: Lutsk Automobile Plant (Volyn region), the "Cherkasy Bus" plant, the companies "Vinnytsia-Aleko" and "Luhansk-Aleko", "Transport Enterprise "Bohdana" (Kyiv), the companies "Avtorenesans", "Akva-Motors", "Automobile Group "Bohdana", "Bohdan-Leasing" (all Kyiv), the company "Bohdana SpetsAvtomatyka" (Cherkasy), the companies "Vantazhni Avtomobili", "Isuzu Ukraine", "Mega-Motors" (all - Kyiv region), the companies "KIA Motors Ukraine" (Kyiv), "National Automobile Company" (Kyiv region), "Engineering and Construction Company "Design, Construction, Service" (Kyiv), "Ukrainian Bus" (Kyiv region), "Ukrainian Automobile Holding" (Kyiv), "Hyundai Motors Ukraine" (Kyiv) and "Ukrainian Company "Foton" (Cherkasy).\n\nAs reported, in September 2003 the Ukrainian industrial-investment concern "Ukrprominvest" created the industrial-investment holding "Bohdana" (since 2005 - "Automobile Group "Bohdana") to manage the concern's automotive sector.\n\nIn April, a number of companies affiliated with the closed joint-stock company "Ukrprominvest", controlled by the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, Viktor Yushchenko's godfather Petro Poroshenko, created the "Ukrprominvest Group" corporation; "Cherkasy Bus", LuAZ, and "Automobile Group "Bohdana" also joined this corporation.