Yuriy Lutsenko. "Terminator" of Ukrainian politics

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The leader of the BPP faction, the former chief police officer of the country, an active participant in two revolutions, a socialist, involved in a number of scandals, was in prison - we can talk about Yuriy Lutsenko for a long time

Yuriy Lutsenko reluctantly, but still became the Prosecutor General of Ukraine. To do this, it was necessary to write a special law for him, negotiate with parliamentary groups of former regionals for support, and create another split and squabbles in the Rada. However, the result is obvious - Yuri Vitalievich became the third prosecutor general of Petro Poroshenko. The first two, Vitaly Yarema and Viktor Shokin, left with a scandal and a lot of criticism addressed to them. Lutsenko begins his activities with the same thing.

Engineer from Rivne

Yuri Vitalievich Lutsenko was born in 1964 in the city of Rivne. He studied at the Lviv Polytechnic Institute, at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, graduating in 1989 with a degree in electronic engineering. He served in the army during a break between studies, in 1984-1986.

After graduating from the institute, he returned to his native Rivne and went to work at the local Gazotron plant, where he held the position of head of the technical bureau of the workshop, then he was promoted to chief designer. He worked at the company until 1994.

Reluctant Socialist

Already while working at the plant, Yuriy Lutsenko was involved in politics. All thanks to Father Lutsenko Vitaly Ivanovich, who, holding various leadership positions, was repeatedly elected as a deputy of the Rivne city and regional councils, from November 1990 to September 1991 was the first secretary of the Rivne regional committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, and in 1993, after the resumption of the activities of the Communist Party of Ukraine, again headed the regional committee and became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

In 1991, Yuriy Lutsenko became a member of the Socialist Party of Ukraine. Why in SPU? Yes, because after Ukraine gained independence, the activities of the Communist Party, which Yuri Vitalievich would probably have joined, were banned, and his father was forced to live in the SPU for the first two years of independence.

In March 1994, Yuri Lutsenko's father was elected as a people's deputy of Ukraine. From that moment on, the active growth of his son’s political career began.

In 1994, Yuri Vitalievich held the post of chairman of the Rivne Regional Council of People's Deputies. Since 1996, he has already been the head of the economics committee of the Rivne regional administration.

Revolutionary

His father’s connections allowed 32-year-old Lutsenko to become secretary of the political council of the Socialist Party of Ukraine in 1996. In 1997, the rising politician was taken into the Cabinet of Ministers Valery Pustovoitenko as Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Vladimir Seminozhenko. In the summer, Semynozhenko became deputy prime minister, and Lutsenko worked with the new minister Stanislav Dovgy for less than a month and became an assistant to Prime Minister Valery Pustovoitenko. Later in his memoirs, Pustovoitenko recognizes Lutsenko as the best Minister of Internal Affairs in the history of the country. But this will happen after the revolution, and at the end of the 90s Yuri Vitalievich leaves the government to focus on party work.

The fact is that since the late 90s, Lutsenko began to take part in the fight against the Kuchma regime. Doing this under the banner of the popular SPU at that time was promising. By 1999, Yuriy Lutsenko gained great weight in the SPU, becoming an assistant-consultant to the party leader Alexander Moroz, a former people's deputy.

It is believed that Lutsenko led the “right wing” of the Socialist Party, advocating cooperation with the non-communist opposition to Kuchma, as opposed to Joseph Vinsky, who advocated support for the Communist Party of Ukraine. Alexander Moroz was enrolled in the moderate left wing of the socialists.

At the end of 2000, the disparate Ukrainian opposition found time to unite in the “Ukraine without Kuchma” campaign. At that time, Lutsenko was considered one of the leaders of the opposition, actively worked “in the fields,” held rallies and even took part in clashes with the police.

In 2002, a prominent revolutionary was elected as a people's deputy, joined the SPU faction, became secretary of the political council, and a member of the political executive committee of the SPU. Once, as a deputy, Yuriy Lutsenko, right in the session hall, gave Leonid Kuchma a symbol of imprisonment - straw bast shoes - after which Kuchma stopped attending meetings of the Rada. It is even more interesting that 10 years later, in 2013, Kuchma and Lutsenko met in Yalta at the YES conference, organized by Kuchma’s son-in-law Viktor Pinchuk, shook hands, and Alexander Moroz captured this moment in a photo, signing the photo: “Friends have met!” By that time, Moroz and Lutsenko hated each other.

From the street to the Ministry of Internal Affairs

During " orange revolution“Lutsenko and Moroz supported Viktor Yushchenko. He organized actions of civil disobedience in Kyiv; Yuri Vitalievich could be seen on the stage of the Maidan, surrounded by “any friends” of Yushchenko. After the change of power, the SPU in the Verkhovna Rada received unprecedented privileges, playing between Yushchenko and Tymoshchenko. For example, the Socialist Party, for supporting Yulia Vladimirovna’s candidacy for the post of prime minister, received the post of head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in her government. In February 2005, it was taken over by Yuriy Lutsenko.

Lutsenko became the first civilian head of this security agency in the history of Ukraine, and was able to hold out in the chair under three prime ministers. Immediately after his appointment, Lutsenko said that the Ministry of Internal Affairs was expecting personnel purges, with the help of which he hoped to clear his department of “Kuchma’s people.” Lutsenko also introduced the passing of physical training standards by the senior command staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as the practice of publicly “inviting” witnesses and suspects for a “conversation.” Under policeman Lutsenko, General of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Alexey Pukach fled abroad, and (according to the official version of the investigation) former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Yuriy Kravchenko and Minister of Transport and Communications of Ukraine Georgy Kirpa shot themselves. Later, Lutsenko admitted that the practice of public invitations should be stopped, although it gave the desired result.

The investigation into the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko was never completed. Lutsenko referred to the ineffectiveness and direct sabotage of the investigation of “high-profile” criminal cases by the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine. And the prosecutor general in 2005 was the odious Svyatoslav Piskun. Lutsenko’s relationship with him did not work out so well that Yuri Vitalievich even warned Yushchenko that Piskun was dangerous in the position of Prosecutor General of Ukraine.

In the spring of 2005, Lutsenko authorized the arrest of the former head of the Donetsk region, one of the leaders of the Party of Regions, Boris Kolesnikov. He was accused of extortion, but after three months in the pre-trial detention center he was released.

In the summer of 2005, Lutsenko tried to summon Donetsk oligarch Rinat Akhmetov to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in connection with an investigation into the latter’s criminal past. However, the businessman did not appear for questioning and got away written explanations their lawyers. In September of the same year, the Ministry of Internal Affairs officially recognized that Akhmetov was clean before the law.

In 2006, during the parliamentary election campaign, Lutsenko initiated the reopening of the case to clear the criminal record of the leader of the Party of Regions, Yanukovych. However, fate played a cruel joke on Lutsenko, and in the second half of the year Yuri Vitalievich worked under the leadership of... Yanukovych.

In July 2006, during the protracted political crisis in Ukraine, Lutsenko left the ranks of the SPU due to Moroz’s decision to defect to the coalition of the Party of Regions and the Communist Party of Ukraine. Lutsenko publicly stated that he would not work in the cabinet headed by Yanukovych. "I can't allow my work book an entry appeared: a member of Yanukovych’s cabinet. I don’t have hatred for him personally, but there is a lack of perception of the political and moral values that this team carries,” said the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. However, two weeks later the Rada approved the composition of the new government headed by the leader of the Party of Regions, and Lutsenko entered the cabinet in his previous position - as head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

Further more. In October 2006, several Ukrainian ministers who entered the government under the quota of Yushchenko's Our Ukraine party announced their intention to resign. Party leader Roman Bessmertny said that Lutsenko would also resign. However, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs denied his words, adding that he was not going to support the “orange” ministers.

But on December 1, 2006, Lutsenko was dismissed from his post. He was replaced by former party member Vasily Tsushko. Lutsenko himself was sheltered by Viktor Yushchenko, appointing him as an adviser.

Corrupt?

Having achieved the dismissal of the hated minister, Yanukovych’s entourage launched a counterattack. Back on November 2, 2006, a temporary investigative commission was created in the Verkhovna Rada to verify facts of corruption and abuse of official position in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. On November 20, 2006, the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv, having examined two protocols presented by the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine, recognized the presence of corruption in the actions of Yuriy Lutsenko, while at the same time stating the absence of selfish motives.

On February 23, 2007, Tsushko accused Lutsenko of misusing budget funds (500 million hryvnia) during his time as minister. In March, the Prosecutor General's Office opened a criminal case, accusing Lutsenko of abuse of office: Lutsenko was accused of illegally issuing 51 firearms. On March 20, 2007, a search was carried out in the office that Lutsenko rented, during which the police found three bags with explosives and weapons. The next day it became known that the Podolsk District Court of Kyiv suspended the GPU investigation into the case against Lutsenko.

In July 2007, media reports that Lutsenko, as head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, lobbied for the interests of the Ukrainian New Telecommunications enterprise, became the reason for the launch of an internal audit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to some reports, this is an intermediary company in which Lutsenko’s wife worked financial director, was supposed to become a service provider of the mobile operator UMC for all employees of the internal affairs bodies of Ukraine. The former minister and representatives of the Ukrainian New Telecommunications company denied reports of lobbying for the company's interests.

However, under President Yushchenko, opponents were unable to reach Lutsenko; in the wake of many scandals, he still could not drown.

Person involved in drunken brawl

In 2007, Yuri Vitalievich actively developed his new political project. He left the SPU with a scandal; Our Ukraine was rapidly losing its ratings. The ex-minister created the People's Self-Defense movement, which made it its main goal dissolution of parliament and resignation of the government. In the spring of 2007, Lutsenko planned to organize a large-scale action throughout the country - the “March of Justice” to Kyiv. He initially considered the pro-presidential People's Union “Our Ukraine” and the “Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc” to be his allies.

Yushchenko dissolved the Verkhovna Rada, the “democrats” won early elections, and Lutsenko returned to the post of Minister of Internal Affairs in Tymoshenko’s government, “to clean up what he didn’t finish, to crush those who he didn’t crush.” In reality, it turned out differently, even more scandalous than during the first run.

On January 18, 2008, after a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council, a scuffle occurred between Lutsenko and the mayor of Kyiv Leonid Chernovetsky, during which, according to Lutsenko, he slapped Chernovetsky in the face with an open palm after he hit him in the shin with his toe. Chernovetsky, in turn, accused Lutsenko of causing him bodily harm without cause.

In May 2009, Lutsenko and his 19-year-old son became involved in another scandal. It was reported that they were detained by police at Frankfurt am Main airport after causing trouble while trying to board a plane while intoxicated.

That same month, Lutsenko resigned as Ukraine's Minister of Internal Affairs, asking the Verkhovna Rada to consider the issue in his absence. He was suspended from office while an internal investigation was conducted. However, a few days later, Lutsenko resumed his duties - the Cabinet of Ministers did not find documentary evidence of the minister’s misconduct.

In prison

After Yanukovych’s victory in the presidential elections and the reformatting of the coalition in the Verkhovna Rada, Lutsenko’s further stay in the Ministry of Internal Affairs was out of the question. He was fired, but this was not the worst that awaited the ex-minister. The coalition of the so-called carcasses was ready even before the elections. In January, she fired Lutsenko because the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs “violated Ukrainian election legislation by interfering in the electoral process during the past presidential elections.” Tymoshenko’s attempt to leave Lutsenko in the Ministry of Internal Affairs as a deputy minister was the last gasp, and Yanukovych soon stopped all this.

On November 9, 2010, the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine opened a criminal case against the former Minister of Internal Affairs and ordered him not to leave. Lutsenko was suspected of appropriating state property on an especially large scale through abuse of official position by prior conspiracy by a group of persons, as well as abuse of official powers.

In December 2010, Lutsenko was detained by SBU officers on suspicion of delaying familiarization with the materials of the criminal case, failure to appear for interrogations, and also preparing to escape abroad. The next day, the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv sentenced him to arrest for a period of two months. Lutsenko was placed in the Lukyanovka pre-trial detention center. Later, the Kyiv Court of Appeal extended the arrest period to 5 months. After this decision, Lutsenko went on a hunger strike.

On February 27, 2012, by decision of the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv, Lutsenko received 4 years in prison with confiscation of all personal property. On July 3, 2012, the European Court of Human Rights declared Lutsenko’s arrest illegal at the trial stage, and also recognized his arrest as directly politically motivated.

Lutsenko stayed in the Menskaya colony until April 2013. Under pressure from the West and against the background of the preparation of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU, Yanukovych pardoned the ex-minister.

Revolutionary again

Lutsenko left prison on time. In the fall of 2013, a second revolution broke out in the country, and Yuri Vitalievich became an active participant. In prison, he read a lot and was released with the image of an intellectual. The former enthusiasm and fiery speeches gave way to measured reasoning, quotes from great people, and careful maneuvering between the opposition troika of Yatsenyuk, Klitschko and Tyagnibok. At Euromaidan, Lutsenko tried to position himself not as a politician, but as a civil activist. Although it was not without his usual scandals. Thus, in January 2014, Berkut beat Lutsenko near the Svyatoshinsky District Department of Internal Affairs.

After his release, Lutsenko founded the Third Ukrainian Republic movement. However, at the height of the 2014 presidential campaign, he actively campaigned for Petro Poroshenko. “All Ukrainians must unite, as they did on Maidan, and vote for Petro Poroshenko on May 25. This is a man of word and deed, this is a man who can unite all of Ukraine around the idea of living in a new way,” said Lutsenko.

As a result, Poroshenko won the elections, became president, and Lutsenko instructed to prepare a new party for parliamentary elections. In the fall of 2014, the BPP, led by Yuri Vitalievich, formed the largest faction in parliament, around which a new coalition was built. Lutsenko himself headed the parliamentary faction of the BPP. He has remained in this position until now, although at one time he almost resigned from his position after a scandal at a faction meeting.

Godfather Poroshenko and Stetsya

Yuriy Lutsenko is the godfather of President Petro Poroshenko and Minister of Information Yuriy Stets. Yuriy Lutsenko and Petro Poroshenko’s wife Marina christened their daughter Stets Eva in 2013. As Stets himself stated, he postponed the sacrament of baptism for his youngest daughter for a year and a half until the future godfather was released from prison. “Viktor Fedorovich actually released Lutsenko for a different reason. I called him and said: “Viktor Fedorovich, you understand, the child is already 1.5 years old, but he has not been baptized. We need to let Yura go so he can baptize Eva.” He says: “Oh, well, I understand, okay.” So, he released me,” said Stets.

Lutsenko is now one of the president’s closest associates. This is evidenced by the lengths to which Poroshenko went to secure the position of Prosecutor General for Lutsenko. Here the president needs the most trusted people.

Poor prosecutor general in a rich family

The Lutsenko family (wife Irina is a people’s deputy from the BPP) is far from poor. Before being elected as a deputy in 2012, Irina was engaged in business. Family for a long time hid which one, but journalists still found out - she was the financial director at the Ukrainian New Telecommunications company. This company was at one time involved in a scandal related to the purchase of communication services by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (from the time of Yuri Lutsenko).

In 2012, Irina Lutsenko declared 22.4 million in income. “I sold my telecommunications company. And she gave two smaller businesses to her son,” Irina Lutsenko explained her millions. The eldest son's income was 5.3 million.

In 2015, the Lutsenko family earned almost 3 million UAH. Yuriy Lutsenko himself declared only UAH 76.4 thousand in income in 2015. The head of the BPP faction owns two apartments with an area of 21.7 and 181 square meters. The Lutsenko family owns a land plot of 0.08 hectares and residential building by 203.9 square meters; marked “rent” are indicated land plot 0.25 hectares and a residential building of 859 square meters. The Lutsenko family also owns two apartments - at 181 and 92.2 square meters and a dacha of 43.44 square meters. The lease includes a garage (35 sq. m.) and “other real estate” (316.8 sq. m.).

In addition, according to the declaration, Lutsenko spent 37 thousand UAH on renting a 2012 Toyota Camry. There are 167.8 thousand UAH in his bank accounts. In addition to last year’s 2014 Mercedes-Benz GL550, the family’s fleet includes a 2014 BMW X5.

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Yuri Vitalievich Lutsenko
8th Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
(during the period December 18, 2007 - January 29, 2010
(acting during the period May 12 - 27, 2009 and from January 28, 2010)
6th Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
February 4, 2005 - December 1, 2006
Birth: December 14, 1964
Rivne, Ukrainian SSR
Father: Vitaly Ivanovich Lutsenko (1937 - 1999)
Mother: Zhuk Vera Mikhailovna (1936),
Spouse: Irina Stepanovna Lutsenko (1966)
Children: Alexander (1989) and Vitaly (1999)

Yuri Vitalievich Lutsenko(Ukrainian Yuri Vitaliyovych Lutsenko, genus. December 14, 1964) - Ukrainian political and statesman. From February 2005 to December 2006 - Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (in the governments of Yulia Tymoshenko, Yuri Yekhanurov and Viktor Yanukovych). From December 19, 2007 to January 29, 2010 - Minister of Internal Affairs in the second government of Yulia Tymoshenko.

On December 26, 2010, he was arrested by the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine on charges of embezzling public funds on an especially large scale. On February 27, 2012, he was found guilty and sentenced to 4 years with confiscation of all property belonging to him. Currently serving his sentence in special regime colony No. 91 (for former employees law enforcement agencies) in the Chernihiv region.
By education, he is an electronics engineer.

Wife - Irina Stepanovna Lutsenko(1966), has two sons Alexander (1989) and Vitaly (1999)
Brother - Sergey Lutsenko

Political activities of Yuriy Lutsenko
The rapid rise in politics of the young engineer (1989-1994 - site foreman, head of the technical bureau of the workshop, chief designer of the Rivne Gazotron plant) is directly related to the political activities of his father - Lutsenko Vitaly Ivanovich, who, holding various leadership positions, was repeatedly elected as a deputy of the Rivne city and regional councils, from November 1990 to September 1991 was the first secretary of the Rivne regional committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, in 1993, after the resumption of the activities of the Communist Party of Ukraine, he again headed the regional committee and became member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. In March 1994 father of Yuri Lutsenko was elected people's deputy of Ukraine. From that moment on, the active growth of his son’s political career began.

In 1991 Yuriy Lutsenko joined the Socialist Party of Ukraine.
Since 1994 Yuriy Lutsenko- Deputy Head of the Rivne Regional Council, since 1996 - Head of the Economics Department of the Rivne Regional State Administration.

Lutsenko was Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, Assistant to the Prime Minister, Secretary of the Political Council of the Socialist Party of Ukraine, and Assistant-Consultant to SPU leader Alexander Moroz.

It is believed that Yuriy Lutsenko headed the “right wing” of the Socialist Party, advocating cooperation with the non-communist opposition to Kuchma, as opposed to Joseph Vinsky, who advocated support for the Communist Party of Ukraine.
Since December 2000 Yuriy Lutsenko- one of the leaders of the Ukrainian opposition.
In 2002 Yuriy Lutsenko was elected to the Verkhovna Rada.

Yuriy Lutsenko- One of the organizers of street protests during the “Ukraine without Kuchma” protests after the “cassette scandal” in 2000, 2002 and the “Orange Revolution” in 2004.
Minister of the Interior (4 February 2005-1 December 2006)

After his appointment to the cabinet of Yulia Tymoshenko in February 2005, he stated: “The task set by the president is the fight against corruption in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. My first steps may be the arrests of those people who have long been known as corrupt officials in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.” However, his first step was to pass the standards for physical training by the senior command staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The next step is an “innovative approach” to conducting the investigation - public “invitations” of witnesses and suspects to a “conversation”, which light hand Lutsenko has taken root in investigative practice. True, after statements on television about an “invitation” for questioning at the prosecutor’s office, General of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Aleksey Pukach fled abroad, and (according to the official version of the investigation) former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Yuriy Kravchenko and Minister of Transport and Communications of Ukraine Georgy Kirpa shot themselves. Later Yuriy Lutsenko admitted that the practice of public invitations should be stopped, although it gave the desired result.

Lutsenko also promised to complete the investigation into the circumstances of the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko: “It is already known who smuggled the poison across the border, which deputy accompanied it, which official brought it to the scene of the crime and who mixed it into the food.” These promises remained unfulfilled. Explaining this, Lutsenko referred to the ineffectiveness and direct sabotage of the investigation of “high-profile” criminal cases by the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, which, according to the law, carries out investigations in cases of most serious crimes, while the Ministry of Internal Affairs is entrusted only with the function of conducting an inquiry ( primary collection of evidence).

In an interview with the newspaper Izvestia-Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko stated: “I have been appointed as a political terminator, I am not familiar with the mentality and specific aspects of the work of the police. I hope that my human and political qualities will be enough to bring me closer to the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. I dream of speaking in the Verkhovna Rada in a year and reporting to the deputies and the president: “The police are with the people.” This will be the best result of my work."
Already February 9, 2005 Yuriy Lutsenko dismissed the commander of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Sergei Popkov. It was on his orders that on November 28, 2004, several thousand special forces were alerted, who, according to the leaders of the “Orange Revolution,” were supposed to be sent to suppress the protesters.
After the resignation of Yulia Tymoshenko from the post of prime minister in September 2005 Yuriy Lutsenko retained his post. January 20, 2006 Yuriy Lutsenko accused Russian authorities is that they systematically grant Russian citizenship to former high-ranking Ukrainian officials put on the international wanted list by Ukraine after the Orange Revolution. According to him, Russian citizenship is for Lately received by the former mayor of Odessa Ruslan Bodelan, the former Minister of Internal Affairs Nikolai Bilokon and the former manager of the affairs of President Kuchma Igor Bakai. Granting Russian citizenship actually means refusing to extradite them to Ukraine, since, according to Russian legislation, Russia does not extradite its citizens to foreign countries.

In July 2006, in protest against the entry of the leader of the SPU, Alexander Moroz, into the “anti-crisis coalition” with the Party of Regions and the Communist Party of Ukraine, he left the SPU because, according to him, it had betrayed its history and ideology by uniting with “figures of Kuchmism” - “this is already This is not democratic socialism, this is oligarchic Sicilism.”

However, already in August, when Lutsenko was again appointed to the post of Minister of Internal Affairs, he promised to work in the Yanukovych government with the same energy with which he worked in Yekhanurov’s office: “Sneaking, hiding, playing it safe - I never had such a habit and I will not have any more.” Yuriy Lutsenko stressed that he intends to complete the cleansing of society from criminal elements.

Lutsenko was the only member of the new cabinet who, before his appointment, repeatedly publicly announced that he did not intend to work in the “Yanukovych team”: “I cannot allow an entry to appear in my work book: a member of Yanukovych’s cabinet. I don’t have hatred for him personally, but I have a lack of perception of the political and moral values that this team carries.” Lutsenko did not even come to the government voting procedure in the Verkhovna Rada on the night of August 5, citing a hypertensive crisis
On November 2, 2006, a temporary investigative commission was created in the Verkhovna Rada to verify facts of corruption and abuse of official position in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The commission recommended that the government remove Lutsenko from carrying out official duties minister for two months.

On November 20, 2006, the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv, having examined two protocols presented by the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine, recognized the presence of corruption in the actions of Yuriy Lutsenko, while at the same time stating the absence of selfish motives.

Activities after dismissal from the post of minister
On December 1, 2006, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine sent Yuriy Lutsenko resigns. On December 4, Viktor Yushchenko appointed Yuriy Lutsenko as an adviser to the President of Ukraine by decree. Lutsenko's place in the government was taken by SPU member Vasily Tsushko.
February 23, 2007 Vasily Tsushko accused Yuri Lutsenko in the misuse of budget funds (500 million hryvnia) during his time as minister.

On March 2, 2007, the Prosecutor General's Office opened a criminal case, accusing Lutsenko of abuse of office: Lutsenko was accused of illegally issuing 51 firearms. On March 27, 2007, the Podolsky District Court of Kyiv overturned the decision of the Prosecutor General's Office to initiate a criminal case.
March 13, 2007 Yuriy Lutsenko was relieved of his post as presidential adviser and devoted himself entirely to creating a new social movement, “People's Self-Defense,” which set as its main goal the dissolution of parliament and the resignation of the government of Ukraine. Lutsenko spoke about the “cynical” non-compliance by parliamentary parties and blocs with slogans and programs promulgated during the election campaign, about the “revenge of Kuchmism in the central executive authorities” and about the “usurpation of power by an anti-people government and an anti-crisis coalition.” In the spring of 2007, Lutsenko planned to organize a large-scale action throughout the country - the “March of Justice” to Kyiv.

He initially considered the pro-presidential People's Union “Our Ukraine” and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc as his allies. On March 20, 2007, a search was carried out at Lutsenko’s apartment, during which representatives of the Prosecutor General’s Office confiscated all documents from him, except for his internal passport. The search was carried out as part of criminal case #492018, initiated under Part 3 of Art. 364 and part 1 of Art. 263 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Among the documents, a copy of a certificate from the Israeli consulate was found stating that Yuriy Lutsenko is not a citizen of this country (publications that Lutsenko is a citizen of Israel had previously periodically appeared in the Ukrainian media, which were negatively disposed towards him). Lutsenko himself, from whom, after interrogation at the Prosecutor General's Office, a written undertaking not to leave the place was taken, stated that the purpose of these actions is to make it impossible for him to move around Ukraine and to suppress the activities of the People's Self-Defense organization he heads.
Chief Rabbi of Ukraine Yakov Dov Bleich denied rumors about Jewish origin Yuri Lutsenko. On April 15, 2007, the party “Forward, Ukraine!” and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) signed an agreement to create the electoral bloc “People's Self-Defense of Yuriy Lutsenko” on the eve of early elections to the Verkhovna Rada. In July 2007, Yuriy Lutsenko headed a single “mega-bloc” of the national democratic forces of Ukraine (the Our Ukraine party - the People’s Self-Defense bloc - the Rukh - Ukrainian Rightist bloc). Lutsenko attributes the initiative to create the bloc to himself. Already on June 28, Lutsenko and the leader of “Our Ukraine” Vyacheslav Kirilenko signed a declaration, where prerequisite The entry of other national democratic forces into the mega-bloc was their agreement to unite into one party after the parliamentary elections. July 5, 2007, in the presence of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko, representatives of 10 political forces (Our Ukraine, Forward, Ukraine!, People's Movement of Ukraine, Christian Democratic Union, Ukrainian Republican Party "Cathedral", Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists, European Party of Ukraine, Ukrainian People's Party, The Fatherland Defenders Party and the Civil Party "It's Time") signed the "Declaration on the Unification of Democratic Forces", the text of which was identical to the bilateral agreement signed on June 28 by Yuriy Lutsenko and Vyacheslav Kirilenko - an agreement on the creation of a bloc of parties called "Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense" (NUNS). The declaration, in particular, provides for the unification of the bloc members into a single party after the parliamentary elections in October-November 2007.

In December 2007, he was again appointed to the post of Minister of Internal Affairs - as part of the second cabinet of Ministers of Yulia Tymoshenko.

He named his main tasks (literal translation from Ukrainian):
restoring order on roads;
strengthening the fight against illegal migration;
resolving the issue of bringing the initiated cases to completion by the prosecutor's office and preventing impunity;
efficient use special police units and Internal Troops to ensure law and order;
preventing confrontation between the police and the Internal Troops, who are integral part internal affairs bodies.

December 22, 2007 Yuriy Lutsenko dismissed from his position the head of the State Traffic Inspectorate Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Alexey Kalinsky.

In the summer of 2007, a scandal between BYuT and Lutsenko: the latter stated that among the candidates for deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea, 45 people had been identified who had problems with the law, seven of them were going to parliament on the BYuT lists, to which BYuT leader Tymoshenko announced her intention to sue him , and the head of the BYuT central election headquarters, Turchynov, called his statement a lie and a provocation.

On January 28, 2010, he was dismissed by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the post of Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. 231 people's deputies out of 226 required voted for this. However, within a few hours, by a unanimous decision of an extraordinary meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, he was appointed First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and, thus, became acting Minister of Internal Affairs for 7 days - until February 4, when he was finally relieved of his post by court decision.

Brawl Lutsenko-Chernovetsky in the premises of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

On January 18, 2008, after a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council, a brawl occurred between Lutsenko and the mayor of Kyiv, Leonid Chernovetsky, during which, according to Lutsenko, he slapped Chernovetsky in the face with an open palm after he hit him in the shin with his toe. Chernovetsky, in turn, accused Lutsenko of causing him bodily harm without cause. The governor of the Kharkov region, Arsen Avakov, who was a direct witness to the incident and commented on it publicly, basically adheres to Lutsenko’s version.

Lutsenko himself considers himself right in this situation: “I will remain Lutsenko and am not going to apologize to the scoundrels and thieves. I acted like a man, like a citizen.” The assessments of others are contradictory, from complete understanding to absolute rejection:

People's Deputy from the Party of Regions faction Yuriy Miroshnichenko believes that the actions of the Minister of Internal Affairs Yuriy Lutsenko should be condemned not only by his fellow party members, but also by the entire society. In his opinion, as long as there are people like Yu. Lutsenko in our politics, “Ukraine will never be a member of the European community.”

Lutsenko was accused of discrediting the entire Ukraine - Comments - LIGA.news

Incident at Frankfurt am Main airport

On May 4, 2009, Yuriy Lutsenko, together with his 19-year-old son Alexander, was detained by police at Frankfurt am Main airport, according to the German tabloid “Bild” in a state of alcohol intoxication. The event received wide resonance in Ukrainian society. The circumstances of this incident remain controversial. Yuriy Lutsenko reported that this was a “domestic conflict”; in relation to his son, who was flying to Korea for a medical examination at his father’s expense, force was unlawfully used at the airport - he was grabbed by his recently operated neck. He, like a father, intervened.
They were detained. At his request, the Ukrainian consul and the police leadership arrived at the airport, who after the conversation formally apologized for the conflict. However, this statement was officially denied by the German police. “The vice-president of the state police department, Günter Gäfner, did not apologize to Lutsenko,” Michael Bußer, a spokesman for the Hesse Ministry of the Interior, told the Deutsche Welle newspaper. There were no grounds for the apology, according to the press secretary. However, on May 12, Yuri Vitalievich submitted his resignation, expressing his opposition to his political persecution, which is based on publications in the yellow press.

On May 27, Yulia Tymoshenko did not accept Lutsenko’s resignation from the post of minister.
Spreading slander by Yuriy Lutsenko

In June 2009, the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv made a decision that obliged Yuriy Lutsenko to refute the untrue information he disseminated after the victory of the “Orange Revolution” in 2005 regarding MP from the Party of Regions Boris Kolesnikov (about extortion). Yuriy Lutsenko officially referred to a business trip abroad, due to which he would not be able to comply with this court decision.
Dismissal

On January 28, 2010, an extraordinary session of the Verkhovna Rada was convened on the issue of the resignation of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Yu. Lutsenko, since the seizure of the printing plant “Ukraine”, which printed ballots, was carried out by force, according to deputies, by employees of the Shevchenko district office and the special unit “Berkut” of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. As a result, on January 28, Lutsenko was released by the Verkhovna Rada from the post of Minister of Internal Affairs with the wording “for systematic violation current legislation about the elections, repeated attempts to interfere with the process electoral process" An hour later, Prime Minister and presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko, in violation of current legislation, reinstated him as an “acting minister.”

Political persecution
On November 9, 2010, the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine opened a criminal case against former Minister of Internal Affairs Yuriy Lutsenko and ordered him not to leave. Lutsenko is suspected of committing a crime under Art. Criminal Code Article 191, Part 5 (seizure of state property on an especially large scale through abuse of official position by prior conspiracy by a group of persons), and Part 3, Article 365 (exceeding official powers, resulting in grave consequences).

On December 13, 2010, the end of the preliminary pre-trial investigation was announced to Lutsenko. However, from that moment on, he never came to the investigator to familiarize himself with the materials of the criminal case.

On December 26, 2010, at approximately 13:00, Lutsenko was detained by SBU officers on suspicion of delaying familiarization with the materials of the criminal case, failure to appear for interrogations, and also preparing to escape abroad. The next day, the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv sentenced him to arrest for a period of two months. Lutsenko was placed in the Lukyanovsky pre-trial detention center.

Later, the Kyiv Court of Appeal extended the arrest period to 5 months. After this decision, Lutsenko went on a hunger strike.
The European Court of Human Rights accepted the case of Lutsenko's arrest out of turn. Hearings are scheduled for April 2012.
January 27, 2011. “All three cases were combined into one proceeding. The pre-trial investigation has been completed,” Yuri Lutsenko’s lawyer Igor Fomin told the Interfax-Ukraine agency.
On May 23, 2011, after the completion of the pre-trial investigation and familiarization with the case materials, the trial of Yuri began Lutsenko.
On May 27, 2011, the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv began consideration Lutsenko's case essentially.
During the trial, Yuriy Lutsenko and his lawyers repeatedly filed petitions to disqualify judges, change the preventive measure, demand a jury trial, and summon a number of high-ranking officials to the trial as witnesses.
During court hearings, almost all witnesses Lutsenko case categorically refused their testimony given during the pre-trial investigation. Moreover, the victims in the case no longer consider themselves as such. The Prosecutor General's Office checked the facts of pressure on witnesses by the defense.

On February 27, 2012, by decision of the Pechersky District Court of Kiev, he was sentenced to 4 years in prison with confiscation of all personal property.
On July 3, 2012, the European Court of Human Rights declared Lutsenko’s arrest illegal and also recognized it as politically motivated

Statements by Yuriy Lutsenko
Statement regarding the actions of the Prosecutor General's Office in February 2010
February 12, 2010 Lutsenko at a press conference he accused the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office of ignoring fraud during the elections: “Yanukovych’s main achievement during the second round of the presidential elections is the inactivity of the Prosecutor General’s Office, controlled by the Party of Regions, which did not take the slightest action to punish the falsifiers.”

The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine issued a statement saying that “not a single word [Lutsenko] says is true... It should be recalled b. Mr. Minister about the criminal liability that is entailed by a knowingly false report of the commission of a crime, provided for in Article 383 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. His statements, which are of a purely political nature, indicate calls for the exercise of powers that are not inherent in the internal affairs bodies, entrusted to them by the Law of Ukraine “On the Police.” According to the statement of the Prosecutor General's Office, in fact, the prosecutor's office received 866 applications and reports of crimes related to the conduct of the presidential elections in Ukraine. Based on the results of their consideration, 561 decisions were made to refuse to initiate criminal proceedings, 83 applications were sent according to their affiliation to the internal affairs bodies, 18 applications were added to the materials of inspections and cases, inspections of 162 applications are ongoing and 42 criminal cases were initiated.

Statement regarding the actions of Party of Regions faction deputy Andrei Pinchuk.

According to Yuri Lutsenko, deputy of the Party of Regions faction, chairman of the Union of Youth of the Regions of Ukraine Andrei Pinchuk took the oath of allegiance to serving the people on April 27, 2010, and on the morning of April 28 he became a participant in the following incident. At his house on Irpinskaya Street, 66, he, his assistant and driver, while in a Lexus car with Verkhovna Rada license plates, listened to music loudly.
His 19-year-old neighbor Valentin Semenchuk called the police on the phone, providing the license plate number of the car, but they refused to respond to the call. Then the young man came out to the company and reprimanded them. After that, all three men from the deputy’s company attacked the guy. As a result of the collision, Valentin Semenchuk received a concussion, a broken jaw, and damage to internal organs. Later, at the hospital, doctors also diagnosed him with retinal detachment.

Yuriy Lutsenko reported that a criminal case had been opened regarding the incident in accordance with Part 2 of Article 296 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (hooliganism).
Yuriy Lutsenko stated: “This is the first signal that they are trying to slow down the case. I am sure that this case should be classified as attempted murder under Art. 115 of the Criminal Code. Moreover, this [fight] took place in a state of intoxication by a group of people.”

On April 30, 2010, a statement was published by the Youth Union of Regions of Ukraine that the statement Yuri Lutsenko about the beating of Valentin Semenchuk by People's Deputy from the Party of Regions Andrei Pinchuk is not true. Valentin Semenchuk himself said this when journalists approached him.
As the press service of the Union of Youth of the Regions of Ukraine reported, People's Deputy of Ukraine Andrey Pinchuk cannot personally refute the statement of Yuriy Lutsenko because he is on vacation with his family, although for the period from April 26 to April 30, 2010, People's Deputies of Ukraine are scheduled to work in the districts.
Quotes

On July 12, 2010, in an interview with the publication Glavkom Lutsenko said:
“Now the moment has come in politics when we need to move away from emotions, we need to think about building a state. After all, the alternative to this is its destruction either due to the ethnic nationalism of the century before last, or due to Russophile desovereignization. And, nevertheless, even in such conditions, I am against Yanukovych for the following reasons.
First, his policy is anti-Ukrainian due to the fact that the Party of Regions does not recognize the Ukrainian basis of this state as a separate civilization from Russia. »

In the same interview he explained the difference between Russians and Ukrainians of the 18th century:
“Russians, due to their geography, history, and vastness, consider the state to be the main thing. Even if the roof of a Russian is leaking in his house, his cow is underfed, his goat is dead, his children are underfed, but he knows that Moscow is the Third Rome, and there will never be a fourth. And he is on his knees in front of the icon, praying for Moscow and the Tsar-Father and the state, which is the only one! - can protect him.

Ukraine is a country of runaway slaves. From the king, king, prince, wife and any lawlessness. Here, if a family works well, then regardless of the dependence of the state, it will survive. The main thing is that no one interferes. Therefore, the main value is freedom.

Awards of Yuriy Lutsenko:
Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, V class

Prosecutor General of Ukraine, former head of the BPP faction.

Education:

He graduated from Rivne city gymnasium No. 7 with a gold medal.

In 1989 he graduated from the Faculty of Electronic Engineering of Lviv Polytechnic Institute. By education, he is an electronics engineer. During the break between studies (1984-1986) he served in the army.

Career:

He began his working career as a site foreman at the Rivne Gazotron plant. He was the head of the technical bureau of the workshop and the chief designer.

In 1994, he was appointed deputy chairman of the Rivne Regional Council of People's Deputies. Later, he headed the Economics Committee of the Rivne Regional State Administration.

From September 1998 to April 1999 - Assistant to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Valery Pustovoitenko. Then Yuriy Lutsenko worked for three years as an assistant-consultant to the people's deputy, leader of the Socialist Party of Ukraine, Alexander Moroz, in the secretariat of the Verkhovna Rada. Secretary of the Political Council of the SPU in 1996-1998. He was a people's deputy of Ukraine from the Socialist Party in the parliament of the fourth convocation.

From the late 1990s until Viktor Yushchenko’s victory in the presidential elections in 2004, Yuriy Lutsenko was an active fighter against the regime of Leonid Kuchma. In 2001, he was one of the leaders of the “Ukraine without Kuchma” campaign.

In the 2002 parliamentary elections, he received a deputy mandate from the SPU list.

In the fall of 2004, he was among the direct organizers and leaders of civil disobedience in Kyiv, and often spoke to people on the Maidan. In January 2005, the candidacy of Yuriy Lutsenko was considered for the post of head of the Ministry of Transport. But on the wave of the Orange Revolution, on February 4, 2005, he assumed the post of head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Lutsenko became the first civilian head of this security agency in the history of Ukraine. He held positions in three governments in a row - Yulia Tymoshenko, Yuri Yekhanurov and Viktor Yanukovych.

On December 1, 2006, he was dismissed from the post of Minister of Internal Affairs. He was replaced by former party member, member of the anti-crisis coalition Vasily Tsushko. Soon after his dismissal, he organized and led the public movement “People's Self-Defense”.

On December 18, 2007, shortly after the creation of the coalition between BYuT and NUNS, he was appointed head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the second government of Yulia Tymoshenko.

Until January 2010 - head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. On January 28, at an extraordinary session, the Verkhovna Rada dismissed Lutsenko from the post of Minister of Internal Affairs with 231 votes.

In 2014, he entered parliament on the BPP list.

Until May 2016, he was the leader of the BPP faction

Since May 12, 2016 – Prosecutor General of Ukraine. His place in the party was taken by singer Oksana Bilozir (No. 80 on the BPP list).

About the person:

Income. According to the deputy, 75.6 thousand hryvnias from the amount of his income amounted to wage, 844 UAH – dividends and interest. The Lutsenko family received more than UAH 3 million in income per year.

Lutsenko’s bank accounts accumulated UAH 167.8 thousand.

Yuriy Lutsenko speaks English.

Likes to cook stuffed chicken buckwheat porridge, fish steaks, kebabs.

Lutsenko began his activities in the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2005 with a serious purge of personnel. The first order of the new minister concerned the creation of the Department of Internal Security, to which he subordinated the personnel inspection and the former internal security department, and also transferred (for a while) the special unit Sokol Organized Crime Control Department, which had previously been involved in neutralizing especially dangerous criminals. The new chief of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was confident that without establishing order in his department, it would be impossible to achieve law and order in the country.

Many drivers remember Lutsenko for his reforms in the traffic police. For example, the elimination of checkpoints on the approaches to settlements, attempts to put an end to the use of criminal license plates, personal checks of road posts. The second coming to the post of head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was marked by the purge of the ranks of the traffic police and thousands of driver’s licenses taken away for violations of the Traffic Rules. And also - initiatives to create a National Anti-Corruption Bureau, which would investigate the “exploits” of senior officials, deputies, judges, and to enlarge the Ministry of Internal Affairs at the expense of border and customs services.

In 2006, in the Top 100 most influential people in Ukraine, determined annually by Korrespondent magazine, Yuriy Lutsenko took 18th position.

In 2008, in the TOP 100 most influential Ukrainians, identified by Korrespondent magazine, Yuriy Lutsenko took 12th place.

Family:

Lutsenko's father Vitaly Ivanovich was the secretary of the Rivne regional party committee. Later - people's deputy and secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

His wife Irina is a former chief specialist of the Kyiv regional branch of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine, now she is a people's deputy of Ukraine, a member of the BPP faction. Two sons: Alexander (born in 1989), Vitaly (born in 1999).

Compromising evidence and rumors:

Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko lives with his family in luxury house with an area of 859 sq. m. in the village of Stoyanka, Kyiv region, which is registered in the name of the father of the prosecutor general’s wife, according to a message on the Euromaidan Facebook page.

“Yuri Vitalievich and his family live in a house with an area of 859 square meters. m., worth several million dollars, in the village. Parking lot near Kiev, but as Irina Lutsenko stated in 2014, “this is not their home and they are temporarily staying with friends while their home is being renovated.” Later, they liked the house so much that they even decided to rent it,” activists note.

Yuriy Lutsenko became the first prosecutor general in the history of Ukraine without a higher legal education, and who himself spent several years in prison.

Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko does not intend to follow Lee Kuan Yew’s parting words and imprison three of his friends.

On April 7, 2013, on the basis of Presidential Decree “On Pardon” No. 197/2013, he was released from further serving the main sentence.

At one time, Lutsenko was accused of dual citizenship (Ukrainian and Israeli), but this information was denied. “I am probably the only citizen of Ukraine who has two certificates from the state of Israel stating that I am not a citizen,” says Lutsenko.

On February 27, 2012, sentenced to four years in prison with confiscation of property, with deprivation of the right to hold positions related to the performance of organizational, administrative or administrative duties for a period of up to three years; in addition, Yuriy Lutsenko was deprived of the 1st rank of civil servant. Judges of the Kyiv Pechersk District Court found him guilty of exceeding official authority, misuse of public money, allocating an apartment to his driver and crediting him with civil service as a police officer. They were ordered to pay the state UAH 643 thousand in damages. For this purpose, the ex-official's property was confiscated. They described the car and the Kyiv apartment.

On December 26, 2010, employees of the special unit of the Security Service of Ukraine “Alpha” detained Yuriy Lutsenko when he went out to walk his Fila Brasileiro dog. I walked with him along the alley next to my house on the street. Staronavodnitskaya in Pechersk. Yuri Vitalievich was taken to the SBU detention center on Askoldov Lane in Kyiv.

With his return to the post of minister, Lutsenko's relations with the mayor of Kyiv Leonid Chernovetsky worsened. On January 18, a meeting of the National Security Council generally ended in an open brawl between politicians in the presence of many high-ranking officials. According to Chernovetsky, Lutsenko attacked him with fists because the mayor recalled a “criminal” story at a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council. About how at one time the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs extorted a plot of capital land from him and threatened to put the son of the city mayor behind bars. According to the minister, Chernovetsky publicly slandered him, kicked him on his sore knee, for which in response, in front of witnesses, he received a slap in the face and an unflattering description: “A liar and just a bastard.”

On May 4, 2009, Yuriy Lutsenko, along with his 19-year-old son Alexander, was detained by police at Frankfurt am Main airport, according to the German tabloid Bild, while intoxicated. The event received wide resonance in Ukrainian society. The circumstances of this incident remain controversial. Yuriy Lutsenko said that this was a “domestic conflict” concerning his son, who, at his father’s expense, was flying to Korea for a medical examination; force was unlawfully used at the airport - he was grabbed by his recently operated neck. He intervened like a father. They were detained. At his request, the Ukrainian consul and the police leadership arrived at the airport, who after the conversation expressed an official apology for the conflict.

During his one and a half year tenure as Minister of Internal Affairs, the parliament tried to dismiss Yuri Vitalievich 9 times.

In August 2006, the Ukrainian Capital newspaper accused Yuriy Lutsenko of patronizing the activities of Russian businessman and State Duma deputy Alexander Babakov. “Friendship with Lutsenko allowed Babakov’s Ukrainian property to avoid various types of checks; Moreover, it was Lutsenko who publicly sanctioned the public persecution of Maxim Kurochkin, a former partner and later competitor of Babakov in the fight for Ukrainian assets. The last business meeting of Mr. Lutsenko with his Moscow “like-minded person” took place during the April visit of Alexander Babakov to Kyiv,” the publication wrote.

Yuriy Lutsenko denied this information and filed a lawsuit against Ukrainian Capital, demanding a refutation from the newspaper and 1 UAH from the journalist as compensation for moral damage caused.

People's Deputy of Ukraine

Yuriy Lutsenko - Prosecutor General of Ukraine, ex-head of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc party, ex-head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Native of Rivne. In 1989 he graduated from the Lviv Polytechnic Institute with a degree in electronic engineering. During the break between studies (1984-1986) he served in the army.

From 1989 to 1996 Lutsenko is a process engineer, site foreman, head of the technical bureau of the workshop at the 60th Anniversary of October plant, chief designer of the Gazotron plant in Rivne, deputy chairman of the Rivne regional council, chairman of the economics committee of the Rivne regional state administration. In 1997-1998 - Deputy Head of the Ministry of Science and Technology. From September 1998 to April 1999 - Assistant to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Valery Pustovoitenko. Then Lutsenko worked for three years as an assistant-consultant to the people's deputy, leader of the Socialist Party of Ukraine, Alexander Moroz, in the secretariat of the Verkhovna Rada. Secretary of the Political Council of the SPU in 1996-1998. He was a people's deputy of Ukraine from the Socialist Party in the parliament of the fourth convocation.

From the late 1990s until Viktor Yushchenko’s victory in the presidential elections in 2004, Lutsenko was an active fighter against the regime of Leonid Kuchma. In 2001, he was one of the leaders of the high-profile protest “Ukraine without Kuchma,” which was accompanied by serious clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement officers. In the fall of 2004, he was among the direct organizers and leaders of civil disobedience in Kyiv, and often spoke to people on the Maidan. On the wave of the Orange Revolution, on February 4, 2005, he assumed the post of head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Lutsenko became the first civilian head of this security agency in the history of Ukraine. He held positions in three governments in a row - Yulia Tymoshenko, Yuri Yekhanurov and Viktor Yanukovych.

After his resignation, Lutsenko announced the creation of an opposition social movement, People's Self-Defense, which was joined by former Ukrainians Mykola Katerynchuk and David Zhvania, and presidential adviser Taras Stetskiv. And this was followed by a search organized by the Prosecutor General’s Office in the oppositionist’s apartment and taking a written undertaking not to leave the place on suspicion of illegal, unjustified distribution of award pistols.

In 2007, the electoral bloc Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense (NUNS) was created. The list of candidates was headed by the former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

On December 18, 2007, shortly after the creation of the coalition between BYuT and NUNS, he was appointed head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Tymoshenko’s second government. On January 28, 2010, on the eve of the second round of the presidential election, in which Prime Minister Tymoshenko and the leader of the Party of Regions Yanukovych participated, at the initiative of the Party of Regions faction, the Verkhovna Rada dismissed Lutsenko. Tymoshenko convened an extraordinary meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers, at which Lutsenko was appointed First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and was entrusted with the duties of head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. However, after the Kyiv District Administrative Court stopped the government’s decision, the Cabinet of Ministers replaced it with Mikhail Klyuev. Dismissed after the appointment of new leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in March 2010.

On November 9, 2010, the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine opened a criminal case against former Minister of Internal Affairs Yuriy Lutsenko and ordered him not to leave. Lutsenko was suspected of committing a crime under Art. Criminal Code Art. 191 part 5 (appropriation of state property on an especially large scale through abuse of official position by prior conspiracy by a group of persons), and part 3 of Art. 365 (exceeding official authority, resulting in grave consequences).

On February 27, 2012, by decision of the Pechersky District Court of Kiev, he was sentenced to 4 years in prison with confiscation of all personal property. On July 3, 2012, the European Court of Human Rights declared Lutsenko’s arrest illegal at the trial stage, and also recognized his arrest as directly politically motivated.

On April 7, 2013, President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych signed Decree No. 197/2013 “On pardoning convicts,” including Lutsenko.

On June 17, 2014, by decree No. 532/2014 of the head of state, he was appointed freelance adviser to the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.

On August 27, 2014, at the Solidarity party congress, Lutsenko was elected head of this political force. On the same day, the congress delegates approved the new name of the party - Petro Poroshenko Bloc. In the fall of 2014, he was elected to the Verzovna Rada from the BPP. Became head of the BPP faction in parliament.

Biography

Born on December 14, 1964 in Rivne. Father, Vitaly Ivanovich, was secretary of the Rivne regional party committee. Later - people's deputy and secretary of the Central Committee.

Yuri Vitalievich studied at Rivne city gymnasium No. 7, from which he graduated with a gold medal.

In 1989 he graduated from the Faculty of Electronic Engineering of the Lviv Polytechnic Institute. By education, he is an electronics engineer. He began his working career as a site foreman at the Rivne Gazotron plant. He was the head of the technical bureau of the workshop and the chief designer.

In 1994, he was appointed deputy chairman of the Rivne Regional Council of People's Deputies. Later, he headed the Economics Committee of the Rivne Regional State Administration.

He was an assistant to Prime Minister Valery Pustovoitenko and an assistant-consultant to People's Deputy Alexander Moroz.

From 1991 to 2006 he stayed in the SPU, for two years he was secretary of the Political Council of the Socialist Party.

Since December 2000, Yuriy Lutsenko has been co-chairman of the “Ukraine without Kuchma” action.

He was the founder of the newspaper "Grani".

In the 2002 parliamentary elections, he received a deputy mandate from the SPU list.

In 2004, he organized the Maidan in support of Viktor Yushchenko.

In January 2005, the candidacy of Yuriy Lutsenko was considered for the post of head of the Ministry of Transport. But fate decreed otherwise - in February he headed the Ministry of Internal Affairs. During the year and a half of Yuri Vitalievich’s tenure in this position, the parliament tried to dismiss him 9 times. In December 2006 another attempt was a success.

In 2006, in the “Top 100” of the most influential people in Ukraine, which are determined annually by the Korrespondent magazine, Yuriy Lutsenko took 18th position.

In December 2006, Yuriy Lutsenko created the public movement “People's Self-Defense”. The financier of the project was David Zhvania.

In 2007, in the “Top 100” of the Korrespondent magazine, Yuriy Lutsenko took 9th position.

In August 2007, he headed the electoral bloc “Our Ukraine – People's Self-Defense”.

In the 2007 elections, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada on the NUNS list (No. 1).

In 2008, in early elections to the Kiev City Council, Yuri Vitalievich headed the NUNS list. But the bloc lost the elections.

In 2008, Yuriy Lutsenko took 12th place in the “TOP 100” of the most influential Ukrainians identified by Korrespondent magazine.

On January 28, 2010, he was dismissed by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the post of Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. 231 people's deputies voted for this. However, just a few hours later, at an extraordinary meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, he was appointed First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and thus became acting Minister of Internal Affairs.

As of April 2, 2011, Yuriy Lutsenko is in the Kiev pre-trial detention center on suspicion of theft of state property and abuse of power as head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Business Empire

Yuri Vitalievich claims that he has never been involved in business. But his brother, Sergei, as some media claim, is related to furniture factory, an auto center, the company "CHIP" (computers and peripherals), "Fortecia" (computers and office equipment), as well as several mid-range restaurants.
Wife's business

In July 2007, the online publication Ukrayinska Pravda accused Yuriy Lutsenko of lobbying the interests of the Ukrainian New Telecommunications company. His wife, Irina, works in this company. According to the publication, the founders of the company are Yuri and Elena Voskoboynikov. Like Lutsenko, they come from the Rivne region, and, according to Ukrayinska Pravda, they are godmothers of the Minister of Internal Affairs.

“Being the chief police officer, Lutsenko lobbied for Ukrainian New Telecommunications so that this company, where his wife works, would have access to the money of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is spent on mobile communications", states Ukrayinska Pravda.

Yuriy Lutsenko denies his involvement in lobbying the business structure where his wife works.
Financial situation

Yuriy Lutsenko's official income for 2007 amounted to 1 thousand 396 UAH.

The total income of his family last year was 484 thousand 260 UAH; dividends, interest, royalties – 28 thousand 712 UAH; insurance compensation – 8 thousand 865 UAH.

Yuriy Lutsenko indicated in his declaration that he owns an apartment (27.5 sq. m.), and his family members own an apartment (55 sq. m.).

His family members own Infiniti, Volkswagen, Skoda Oktavia, Hyundai coupe cars.

Yuriy Lutsenko holds funds in the amount of 1 UAH in bank accounts.

However, in the accounts of his family members in banks and other financial institutions there are 409 thousand 643 UAH.

According to the income statement, in 2006 Yuriy Lutsenko earned 352 thousand UAH, and his family members earned 393 thousand UAH.
Environment

Yuriy Lutsenko is friends with Vyacheslav Kirilenko, Taras Stetskiv, David Zhvania, Oles Doniy, Vladimir Filenko, Gennady Moskal, Vladimir Ariev, Kirill Kulikov.

Family

Yuri Vitalievich met his wife Irina during his student years.

“We met at the institute. Yura was in his second year, I was in my first. The noisiest and most controversial in the entire institute were probably Lutsenko and his company. And I came from the regional center - an excellent student, modest. I was a little afraid of these cheerful guys who lived a very hectic life,” recalls Irina Lutsenko (Zerkalo Nedeli, March 5, 2005).

When asked who is in charge in their family, Irina replies: “I think that Yura is the head, I am the neck. Do you know what I mean?

Now Irina works as a financial director at the Ukrainian New Telecommunications company.

Lutsenko is raising sons Alexander (born 1989) and Vitaly (born 1999).

The eldest son loves to ride a Yamaha motorcycle.
Yuri’s brother is Sergei Lutsenko (born 1959), advisor to the chairman of the board of OJSC Zdolbunovsky Plant of Non-Standard Equipment. In the early parliamentary elections of 2007, he ran on the NUNS list (No. 85). In 1999-2000 lost his business. He says for political reasons. In an interview with journalists, Yuriy Lutsenko said that his brother was engaged in small business - he built a mini-dairy plant.

In July 2006, Sergei Vitalievich publicly burned the SPU party card in protest against the socialists joining the anti-crisis coalition.

During election campaign 2007 headed the Chernigov regional headquarters of the NUNS.

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