Valeriy Horoshkovsky
Biography of Valeriy Horoshkovsky
Date of Birth: 01.01.1969
Valeriy Ivanovich Horoshkovsky - First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine (2012), Minister of Finance of Ukraine (2012), Head of the Security Service of Ukraine (2010-2012), Head of the State Customs Service of Ukraine (2007-2009). Doctor of Economics (2003), Army General (2011).
Place of Birth. Education. Born in Kyiv. In 1994, Valeriy Horoshkovsky graduated from the Faculty of Law of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
Career. He began his career in 1986 as a machine operator in a factory in Kyiv, where he worked as a lathe apprentice. The next step was a driver in the Kyiv Zoo.
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From 1987 to 1989 - military service.
From 1994 to 1997, after graduation, he was the director of a small company Veneda Ltd, president of the company BOVI, Merks International Corporation.
In 1996, Valeriy Horoshkovsky became a member of the People's Democratic Party of Valeriy Pustovoytenko and joined the council and the political bureau of the NDP. In 1998, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and worked in the budget committee of parliament.
In the 2002 parliamentary elections, he ran in first place of the new political project 'Team of the Winter Generation' (one of the faces of the party was Inna Bogoslovskaya, who later chaired the Veche). The project finished 9th in the elections, receiving 2.02% of the vote.
June - August 2002 - Deputy Head - Head of the Main Department for Domestic Policy.
August - December 2002 - First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine.
In November 2002, Valeriy Horoshkovsky was appointed Minister of Economy and Minister for European Integration in the government of Viktor Yanukovych.
In December 2006, President Viktor Yushchenko appointed Valeriy Horoshkovsky as the First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, before being replaced by Vitaliy Hayduk, the co-founder of the Industrial Union of Donbas Corporation. On May 15, 2007, three days after the resignation of the head of the National Security Council, Vitaliy Hayduk, Valeriy Horoshkovsky resigned.
From December 24, 2007, to January 28, 2009 - Head of the State Customs Service of Ukraine.
From January 2009 to March 2010 - First Deputy Chairman and from March 11, 2010, to January 18, 2012 - Head of the Security Service of Ukraine.
From May 31, 2010, to December 16, 2010 - a member of the Higher Council of Justice.
On August 12, 2011, Valeriy Horoshkovsky was awarded the rank of Army General of Ukraine.
On January 18, 2012, he was appointed Minister of Finance of Ukraine by order of President Viktor Yanukovych, replacing Fedor Yaroshenko in this position.
On February 22, 2012, he was appointed First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine. He was dismissed by a presidential decree on December 24, 2012.
After the early parliamentary elections in October 2014, the Strong Ukraine party, which Valeriy Horoshkovsky ran for (2nd place), did not enter parliament, receiving 3.11% against the required 5% in the majority elections.
Wealth. In the spring of 2006, experts from the investment company Dragon Capital estimated the fortune of the former owner of UkrSocBank, the former president of the Russian metallurgical holding Evraz Group, and the main shareholder and chairman of the board of the Inter TV channel at $930 million. By this measure, Valeriy Horoshkovsky ranked 10th on the list of the 30 richest Ukrainians published by the Correspondent magazine. Two years later, the same publication counted the head of the customs service at $1.6 billion, this time ranking him 18th.
The largest domestic media group U.A. Inter Media Group owned a number of assets. It indirectly owned 61% of the shares of JSC 'Ukrainian Independent TV Corporation' (TV channel Inter), 90% of LLC 'Kino-TV' (TV channel Enter Film), 90% of LLC 'Music TV' (TV channel Enter Music), 60% of LLC 'TV News Service' (TV network NTN), 100% of TV channels K1, K2, 'Megasport' as well as other media assets in Ukraine and abroad. In early February 2008, this portfolio was supplemented by the news agency Ukrainian News (100% of the authorized capital).
In February 2013, Valeriy Horoshkovsky sold the media company Group DF. Market participants named the announced deal price of $2.5 billion (his share was estimated at $800 million to $1.5 billion) significantly overvalued. Later it became known that 20% of the shares of GDF Media Limited, which became the owner of U.A. Inter Media Group, belonged to Sergey Levochkin. The head of the media group was Anna Bezlyudnaya.
In April 2013, one of Horoshkovsky's affiliated commercial structures acquired the TV channel TVi for $350 million.
Family. Valeriy Horoshkovsky is married. The wife of the politician and businessman is Elena Horoshkovskaya. Shortly after his appointment as the head of the State Customs Service, 'U.A. Inter Media Group Limited' announced,