Evgeny Kornijtschuk

Date of Birth: 18.10.1966

Evgeny Vladimirovich Kornijtschuk - extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of Ukraine to Israel since (2020), member of the Ukrainian Parliament in the V and VI convocations, first deputy minister of justice of Ukraine (from November 2007 to March 2010). Former chairman of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party.

Place of Birth. Education. Born in Vinnytsia. In 1987 he graduated from the Military Political School in Minsk. In 1996 he graduated from the Law Institute of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, and in 1998 from the Southwestern University School of Law in Texas, USA. Master of International Law.

Career. From 1987 to 1992, Kornijtschuk served in the army in various officer positions.

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From 1992 to 2000, he worked at the Ministry of Justice, was consul at the Ukrainian Consulate General in New York, and headed the international treaties department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

Since 2000, he was a senior professor at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Before his election to the Ukrainian Parliament, he also led the financial practices of the renowned law firm Magister & Partner (he was a senior partner, now - honorary advisor). Specialized in finance and banking law, regulation of securities transactions, energy law, oil and gas legislation. He also has experience in the field of international commercial arbitration.

From April 2005, he headed the Kyiv city organization of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party. In the 2006 elections, he was elected to Parliament as number 113 on the list of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. In November 2006, he was elected leader of the USDP at the party congress, after the party leader, Kornijtschuk's colleague in the Tymoshenko faction and at the same time his father-in-law, Vasily Onopenko (who entered the VR under No. 4 on the Tymoshenko list), was appointed president of the Supreme Court of Ukraine. In Parliament, Kornijtschuk received the position of first deputy chairman of the Legal Committee, and later became acting chairman of this committee.

In the early parliamentary elections of 2007, Kornijtschuk received an honorable 10th place on the electoral list of the bloc as chairman of one of the three Tymoshenko parties and a member of its Political Council. Incidentally, a colleague and partner of Kornijtschuk in the legal business, the well-known lawyer Sergey Vlassenko, was at number 170 on the list. He gained wide public attention by representing the interests of presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko (in the Supreme Court after the second round of voting in 2004), prominent businessmen Viktor Pinchuk and Rinat Akhmetov (during the reprivatization of Krivorozhstal), and again Pinchuk in his fight for the Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant.

From December 2007 to March 2010, Kornijtschuk was the first deputy minister of justice of Ukraine Nikolai Onishchuk. According to the minister's decree, he was responsible for the ministry's cooperation with the Verkhovna Rada, the cabinet of ministers, and the presidential secretariat, led the main administration for the execution of punishments, represented the interests of the state in the courts of Ukraine and abroad, and controlled the activities of several structural divisions of the Ministry of Justice.

In December 2010, Kornijtschuk was arrested for abuse of office in the execution of government contracts. He was in pre-trial detention and left the Lukyanivka prison on February 15, 2011, when he could review the case materials. According to the indictment under Art. 3 part 365 (exceeding powers and authorities that have serious consequences) and part 3 of the Criminal Code 366 (abuse of office that has serious consequences) he faced a prison sentence of up to ten years.

In December 2011, the case of the former first deputy minister of justice was closed in connection with the application of the amnesty law. Kornijtschuk described the court's decision as 'the best he could get'. According to media reports, the criminal investigation was terminated in exchange for withdrawing his mother-in-law, the former chairwoman of the Supreme Court Onopenko, to run again for this position.

He then withdrew from politics and handed over his party USDP (later renamed Ukraine-Front!) to Natalia Korolevskaya.

In December 2012, he ran on the list of Ukraine-Front! (under No. 31) for the seventh convocation parliament, but the party did not overcome the 5% threshold.

On May 11, 2016, the Supreme Specialized Court of Ukraine acquitted Kornijtschuk. The judges' chamber of the Supreme Court rejected the appeal against the ruling of the Pechersk District Court.

In January 2018, the European Court of Human Rights upheld the legality of the arrest of Yevgeny Kornijtschuk in December 2010, as it was carried out without a court order.