Kuzmin Renat
Date of Birth: 12.07.1967
Place of Birth. Education. Resident of Donetsk. In 1991, he graduated from the Ukrainian Law Academy in Kharkiv.
Career. From 1984 to 1986, he worked as an inspector of the General Prosecutor's Office for the Donetsk region. He then served two years in the army.
From 1988 to 1991, he worked as a legal advisor at the Donbass Production and Trade Knitting Plant in Donetsk. He completed another year of internship at the Environmental District Prosecutor's Office of Donetsk and the Prosecutor's Office of the Lenin District of the mining capital, after having been deputy prosecutor of the same Lenin district for a month, he became deputy head of his supervisor (in May 1992). Subsequently, Kuzmin held the position of Deputy Prosecutor of the Voroshilov District of Donetsk, headed the Environmental District Prosecutor's Office of the Donetsk region, was the prosecutor of the Kirov District of Donetsk, head of the department for monitoring compliance with laws by the bodies conducting operational investigative activities, investigations, and the preliminary investigation of the prosecutor's office of the Donetsk region.
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From 1999 to January 2003, he headed the city prosecutor's office of Makeevka. In the next 10 months, he was Deputy Prosecutor of the Donetsk region.
In November 2003, Kuzmin became Prosecutor of Kyiv. After the Orange Revolution, in February 2005, he was demoted - to Deputy Prosecutor of Kyiv region. But already in September 2006, after the formation of a government coalition consisting of the Party of Regions, the Communist Party of Ukraine and the Communist Party, a resident of Donetsk became Deputy Attorney General of Ukraine.
On November 4, 2010, he was appointed first deputy attorney general of Ukraine Viktor Pshonka. He was responsible for the work of the department investigating particularly important cases, compliance with laws in transportation and defense enterprises.
On May 12, 2010, he was appointed a member of the Supreme Judicial Council by order of President Viktor Yanukovych.
On October 4, 2013, he was appointed Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
On March 5, 2014, he was dismissed from this position by order of acting President of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov.
In the parliamentary elections of 2019, he was elected as a deputy of the Ukrainian parliament, the Supreme Council IX. term, from the party Opposition Platform - For Life. Number 35 on the list.
On October 5, 2022, the State Bureau of Investigation and the Office of the Prosecutor General issued a suspicion of state treason against Renat Kuzmin. The actions of the suspect were qualified under Art. 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, which provides for imprisonment for up to 15 years with confiscation of property. According to the investigators' version, Kuzmin has been spreading anti-European propaganda since March 2021. Kuzmin himself was hiding at the time of the suspicion from the investigation.
On January 10, 2023, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky stated that he stripped Renat Kuzmin of his Ukrainian citizenship. On January 13, 2023, the parliament voted for the revocation of the mandate of Renat Kuzmin.
In the media. The name of the new deputy chief of the prosecutor general's office became known to the public, in which the then Minister of Internal Affairs, Yuriy Lutsenko, played a significant role. From his mouth, open distrust regarding the leadership of the prosecutor's office and personally Kuzmin sounded several times regarding the fact that there was no place for the most resonant criminal cases related to corruption allegations and abuse of power. Later, Lutsenko allegedly accused Kuzmin that neither the removal of the head of the people's defense from his position as the Minister of Internal Affairs in December 2006 nor the initiation of a criminal case due to the distribution of award pistols and the search of his apartment in March 2007 took place without him.
In addition, complaints about Kuzmin were made by political opposition politicians, stating that he carried out orders of the Party of Regions and 'subjugated' the prosecutor general Oleksandr Medvedko. The Deputy Head of the Prosecutor General's Office denies all allegations of political interference, representing the interests of the PR in his office and of his bad influence on his boss.
Regalia. Kuzmin - State Counselor of Justice of the 3rd class, member of the Board of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine.
Family ties. Married.
01.13.2023.