Ivan Bakanov
Biography of Ivan Gennadyevich Bakanov
Date of Birth: 02.05.1974
Ivan Gennadyevich Bakanov - Head of the Security Service of Ukraine (2019-2022). Chairman of the political party 'Servant of the People' (2017-2019), head of the campaign headquarters of Volodymyr Zelensky, former director and lawyer of Quarter 95.
Place of Birth. Education. Ivan Gennadyevich Bakanov was born on May 2, 1974, in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Ivan's father is a chemistry and biology teacher.
Childhood friend of President Volodymyr Zelensky. They lived in the same block, attended the same school, and later went to the Kryvyi Rih Economic Institute of KNUTE named after Vadym Hetman; Zelensky studied law, Bakanov studied auditing.
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In 2006, he graduated from the Academy of Labor and Social Relations of the Trade Union Federation of Ukraine, majoring in 'Court, Advocacy, and Prosecutor's Office'.
Career. Since January 25, 2013 - CEO of LLC 'Quarter 95' and since December 27, 2013 - CEO of LLC 'Studio Quarter-95'.
The companies LLC 'Studio Quarter-95' and LLC 'Quarter-95' are registered in the name of Ivan Bakanov. Their founder and ultimate beneficiary is 'Green Family Ltd', registered in Nicosia, Cyprus. Two CEOs are listed there - Oksana Lasarenko (wife of Ivan Bakanov) and Marina Razomova-Georgiu.
Political Career. From December 2, 2017, to May 27, 2019 - Chairman of the party 'Servant of the People'.
In the presidential election campaign of 2019, Ivan Bakanov was the head of the campaign headquarters of presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelensky.
On May 22, 2019, Ivan Bakanov was appointed First Deputy Head of the Security Service of Ukraine and head of the Main Directorate for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime of the Central Administration of the SBU.
At the end of May - early June 2019, Ivan Bakanov received the military rank of lieutenant. This was done to enable Bakanov to be appointed as Deputy Head of the Security Service.
Since May 28, 2019, a member of the RNBO (National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine). Since June 3, 2019, during the vacation of Vasyl Hryzak, Deputy Head of the SBU.
On August 29, 2019, acting SBU Chief Ivan Bakanov was officially appointed Head of the SBU.
On July 17, 2022, President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed Ivan Bakanov from the position of Head of the Security Service of Ukraine.
On July 19, 2022, Parliament relieved Ivan Bakanov from the post of Head of the Security Service of Ukraine.
On June 27, 2023, Ivan Bakanov received a lawyer's license from the Poltava Oblast Bar Association.
Family. Married. Wife - Oksana Lasarenko, citizen of the Russian Federation. The family has two sons: the older one, Artur (a student of KNUTE named after Vadym Hetman from 2014 to 2018), and the younger son, Stepan, a student.
19.12.2023