Yuriy Lutsenko
Date of Birth: 14.12.1964
Yuriy Vitaliyovych Lutsenko - Attorney General of Ukraine (2016-2019), People's Deputy of Ukraine of the IV., VI., VII., VIII. convocation, twice Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (2005-2006, 2007-2010).
Place of Birth & Education. Born in Rivne. In 1989, he graduated from the Lviv Polytechnic Institute with a degree in electronic engineering. During his studies (1984-1986), he served in the military.
Career. From 1989 to 1996, Lutsenko worked as an engineer-technologist, workshop manager, head of the technical office of the department at the plant named after the 60th anniversary of October, chief designer of the Gasotron plant in Rivne, deputy chairman of the Rivne Oblast Council, chairman of the economic committee of the Rivne Oblast Regional Administration.
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1997-1998 - Deputy Minister of Science and Technology.
From September 1998 to April 1999 - Assistant to the Prime Minister of Ukraine, Valeriy Pustovoitenko.
Then Lutsenko worked for three years as an assistant and advisor to a people's deputy, the leader of the Socialist Party of Ukraine, Alexander Moroz, in the Secretariat of the Verkhovna Rada. Political advisor of the SPU from 1996 to 1998. He was a people's deputy of Ukraine of the IV. convocation.
From the late 90s until Viktor Yushchenko's victory in the presidential elections of 2004, Lutsenko actively fought against the regime of Leonid Kuchma. In 2001, he was one of the leaders of the protest action 'Ukraine without Kuchma', which was accompanied by serious clashes between demonstrators and security forces. In the autumn of 2004, he was one of the immediate organizers and leaders of the act of civil disobedience in Kyiv and often spoke to the people on Maidan. On February 4, 2005, he was appointed Minister of Internal Affairs on the wave of the Orange Revolution. Lutsenko was the first civilian head of this power body in the history of Ukraine. He held this position in three consecutive governments - Yulia Tymoshenko, Yuriy Yekhanurov, and Viktor Yanukovych.
On December 1, 2006, he was dismissed as Minister of Internal Affairs. His former party colleague, a member of the Anti-Crisis Coalition, Vasyl Tsushko, replaced him.
After his resignation, Lutsenko announced the establishment of the opposition public movement Narodna Samooborona, which was joined by former Nashe Ukrayintsi Nikolay Katerinchuk and Davyd Zhvania, advisor to President Taras Stetskiv. Subsequently, there was a search organized by the Attorney General of the opposition leader's apartment and a demand to sign a loyalty promise on suspicion of unlawful and unjustified issuance of service pistols.
After leaving his ministerial position, Lutsenko called for early parliamentary elections and effectively began the campaign of Narodna Samooborona. It was not a coincidence that he supported the president's initiative for the premature dissolution of the Verkhovna Rada of the V. convocation. When unexpected elections became a reality, a party list was formed, led by Nashe Ukrayina - Narodna Samooborona (NU-NS). The list was led by the former Minister of Internal Affairs.
On December 18, 2007, shortly after the formation of the coalition between BYuT and NU-NS, he was appointed Minister of Internal Affairs in Tymoshenko's second government. On January 28, 2010, on the eve of the second round of the presidential elections, in which Prime Minister Tymoshenko and party leader Yanukovych participated, Lutsenko was sent into retirement from the Verkhovna Rada at the initiative of the PR faction. Tymoshenko convened an extraordinary cabinet meeting, where Lutsenko was appointed as the first deputy minister of internal affairs with the transfer of the functions of the minister of internal affairs. After the Kyiv District Administrative Court suspended the government's decision, the government replaced him with Mykola Klyuev. In March 2010, he was dismissed after the appointment of a new leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
On February 27, 2012, he was sentenced to four years in prison with confiscation of his property, deprivation of the right to hold positions exercising organizational and management functions or administrative and economic duties for up to three years from the date of his first rank as a government official. The judges of the Pechersk District Court in Kyiv found him guilty of abuse of office and misuse of state funds, allocating an apartment to his driver and recognizing civil service time as security service time. He was ordered to compensate the state for damages of 643,000 UAH. The latter was achieved through the confiscation of the former official's property. His car and apartment in Kyiv were described.
On July 3, 2012, the European Court of Human Rights recognized Lutsenko's arrest as unlawful and politically motivated.
On April 7, 2013, he was released from further imprisonment under a presidential decree.
On March 20, 2014, the Pechersk District Court in Kyiv annulled all court decisions against Yuriy Lutsenko and declared him a political prisoner.
On June 17, 2014, he was appointed as an extraordinary advisor to the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko by the decree of the head of state.
On August 27, 2014, Lutsenko was elected chairman of this political force at the Solidarity party congress. On that day, the delegates of the congress also approved a new name for the party - Petro Poroshenko Bloc.
In the early elections in the fall of 2014, he was elected as No. 2 on the list of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc to the parliament. He headed the BPP faction in parliament.
On May 12, 2016, the parliament supported the decision submitted by the president to appoint Lutsenko as the Attorney General of Ukraine. Poroshenko immediately signed the decree on the appointment of the new Attorney General in the plenary hall.
August 29, 2019 Yuriy Lutsenko