Valeriy Geletey
Date of birth: 28.08.1967
Place of birth. Education. A native of the village of Verkhnij Koropets in the Mukachevo district of the Transcarpathian region. In 1990, he graduated from the Ivano-Frankivsk Specialized Secondary School of Police. In 1994, he graduated from the Ukrainian Academy of Internal Affairs.
Career. After finishing high school, Geletey worked for a year as an auto electrician at Mukachevo ATP-06011. In 1986-1987, he served in the army.
In 1985, he was a junior controller in military unit 2142 of the western border district of the KGB of the USSR.
From March to September 1988, he was a platoon commander of the non-staff security in Mukachevo, Transcarpathian region.
In 1990, he was an operative of the criminal investigation department in Mukachevo.
In 1994, he was an operative at the Ministry of Internal Affairs UBOZ GU MVD Ukraine in Kyiv.
Since 1996, he has been the head of the Minsk district department for combating organized crime of UBOZ GU MVD Ukraine in Kyiv.
From February to June 1997, he was the head of the UBOZ GU MVD Ukraine in Kyiv.
In 1997, he was the deputy head of UBOZ GU MVD Ukraine in Kyiv.
In 1998, he was the first deputy head of UBOZ GU MVD Ukraine in Kyiv.
In 2000, he was the head of the October District Department of the GU MVD Ukraine in Kyiv.
In 2001, he was the head of the criminal investigation department of the GU MVD Ukraine in Kyiv.
In 2003, he was the head of the operational service management of the GU MVD Ukraine in Kyiv.
In 2004, he was the first deputy head of the intelligence and search activity department at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.
From February to March 2005, he was the first deputy head of the GU MVD Ukraine in Kyiv - head of UBOZ.
From March to November 2005, he was the acting head of UBOZ in Kyiv.
From November 2005 to October 2006, he was the head of UBOZ in Kyiv.
Since 2006, he has been the head of the main department for law enforcement activities of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine.
In October 2006, holding the rank of police colonel, he headed the main department for law enforcement activities of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine. Soon after, he was awarded the title of Major General of Police.
On May 24, 2007, by the decree of President Viktor Yushchenko, he was appointed head of the State Protection Administration of Ukraine. This structure is a law enforcement agency of special purpose, whose personnel ensure the security of over 20 state officials and 70 facilities of state power organs of Ukraine, as well as high-ranking officials from other states during their visits to Ukraine.
In June 2007, Yushchenko awarded the new head of the State Protection Administration a military rank of Major General. Two months later, he was promoted to Lieutenant General.
In July 2009, he was dismissed from the position of head of the State Protection Administration. Geletey's resignation was linked to the departure of his ally Viktor Baloga from the post of head of the presidential secretariat.
From 2011 to 2014, he was the vice-president of Avant-bank LLC.
On March 2, 2014, by the decree of Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov, he was reappointed head of the State Protection Administration of Ukraine. In this capacity, Geletey replaced Serhiy Kulik.
On July 3, 2014, the Verkhovna Rada supported the candidacy of General Colonel Valeriy Geletey for the position of Minister of Defense of Ukraine. 260 people's deputies voted for Geletey's appointment. President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko personally came to Parliament to present the candidate for approval.
On October 12, Poroshenko accepted the resignation report from Minister of Defense Valeriy Geletey, and on October 14, 2014, the Verkhovna Rada approved the appointment of Stepan Poltorak as Minister of Defense of Ukraine.
On October 15, 2014, Petro Poroshenko appointed Valeriy Geletey as head of the State Protection Administration of Ukraine.
On October 27, 2014, the president issued decree No. 827/2014, removing Valeriy Geletey from the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
On May 22, 2019, Valeriy Geletey reported that he submitted a resignation letter as head of the State Protection Administration.
On May 29, 2019, President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed the head of the State Protection Administration (UHO) Valeriy Geletey and appointed Oleksiy Otserklevych instead.
Views and assessments. Geletey's name became known to the general public during the height of the acute political conflict between the president and the ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. Geletey in his public speeches followed a tough anti-coalition line of the presidential secretariat, criticizing the actions or inaction of the leaders of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor General's Office controlled by the coalition.
He particularly attracted media attention with two episodes. First - with a sensational (and at the same time poorly and clumsily argued) version voiced at a press conference and later on a popular television program Freedom of Speech about the allegedly planned assassination attempts on opposition leaders and members of Yushchenko's family. As a result, after the facts were made public, there were no arrests of anyone or assassination attempts against politicians. Then Geletey, just taking the post of head of the State Protection Administration, got involved in a scandalous story with the change of the chief of the General Prosecutor's Office - a loyal person to the coalition, Chief of the GPU Svyatoslav Piskun, to a person from the president's team, the newly appointed acting Prosecutor General Viktor Shemchuk. This change, as is known, was accompanied by a violent clash of security service employees with fighters of the special police unit Berkut, personally led by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vasyl Tsushko, and people's deputies from the Party of Regions.
After receiving the rank of lieutenant general in August 2007, regional deputy Volodymyr Sivkovych called Yushchenko's decision blatant overreach and compared the head of state with his predecessor Leonid Kuchma regarding the 'distribution of ranks for personal loyalty'.
Income. According to Geletey's declaration, in 2013 he received 387,600 UAH in total income, of which the salary was 147,600 UAH. The income of family members amounted to 54,000 UAH. In the section 'dividends, interests,' Geletey indicated an amount of 240,000 UAH.
Geletey owns an apartment in Kyiv on Taras Shevchenko Boulevard with an area of 96.7 sq m, which he indicated as his residence. He also has a house on the Kyiv highway with an area of 651.8 sq m and a garden house, also on the Kyiv highway, - 275.9 sq m. Family members own a house in Brovary (Kyiv region) with an area of 240 sq m.
Geletey owns two plots of land - 10 ares in the village of Synyak (Transcarpathian region) and 20 ares in the village of Protsiv (Kyiv region).
The minister owns two cars - a Lexus (2012) and a Range Rover (2013). The latter was purchased last year for 790,000 UAH. Family members own a Toyota RAV-4 (2004).
According to Geletey's declaration, he has 400,000 UAH in bank accounts, and another 400,000 UAH is held in family members' accounts.
26.08.2022.