The story
The company, formerly known as the private joint-stock company "Kiev-Donbass", was founded by Mikhail Grinshpon. Grinshpon headed Kyiv-Donbas until around 1997. Viktor Topolov was also one of the co-founders. The company was engaged in the sale of coal and equipment for Ukrainian mines. Leonid Roytman acted as vice-president of Kyiv-Donbas. Later, Oleg Asmakov became one of the company's major shareholders. In 1999, Asmakov was murdered in Kyiv..
The Kyiv-Donbas holding was also one of the founders of Nadra Bank in 1993.
In 2011, Andriy Verevskyi bought 68.2% of the shares in KDD Group.
From Wikipedia’s article on KDD Group, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3