She was appointed Prime Minister in 2005 and lost a second round bid to become elected President in 2010 to Yanukovich, in what all observers at the time agreed was a free and fair election. The first and last time that's happened in deadbeat Ukraine's short history as an independent nation.
While Prime Minister she stole from the treasury with both hands, became a suspect in the murder of a rival, and remains an unindicted co-consprator in a massive criminal fraud case brought by the United States in which her business partner and former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko was convicted.
A hilarious story. He was tried in San Francisco. Against his lawyer's advice he took the stand in his own defense. He said we have to understand that at the time Ukraine was like America during the time of the robber barons. The San Francisco jury took him at his word and gave him ten years.