Yuriy Dmytrulin, a former Dynamo Kyiv player, recalled to Sport.ua that in the last round of the 2001 Ukrainian championship opponents were financially incentivized to produce a specific result. Dmytrulin said Dnipro players told him they had been promised very large bonuses—he quoted examples such as BMW cars and apartments—if they drew the match, a result that would have handed the title to Shakhtar Donetsk.
Dynamo trailed 1–0 until the final stages before scoring twice in the 84th and 85th minutes to win 2–1. Sport.ua attributes the anecdote to Dmytrulin’s interview; the report notes that Shakhtar later won its first championship in the 2001/2002 season. The claims are presented as Dmytrulin’s recollection and have not been independently verified in the Sport.ua piece.