Nikolai Martynenko
Date of Birth: 12.01.1961
Nikolai Vladimirovich Martynenko - Member of the Ukrainian Parliament during the III-VIII convocations. Member of the People's Front party since September 2014. Previously, he was a member of the Communist Party, the NDP, Our Ukraine, Front for Change, and Fatherland.
Place of Birth. Education. Born in Svetlovodsk, Kirovograd Region. Graduated from Kharkiv Aviation Institute Zhukovsky in 1984 with a degree as a mechanical engineer (specialization - aircraft construction).
Career. After the institute, Martynenko worked for two years as an engineer at the Kyiv Mechanical Plant. In 1986, he was the deputy secretary and Komsomol of the plant, and secretary of the Kyiv regional Komsomol council. Then he started running a business.
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From 1991 to 1998, he was the chairman of the board and president of the JSC 'Trade House', chairman of the board of the CJSC 'Interport-Kovel'.
Political Career. After the elections in 1998, Nikolai Martynenko joined the NDP faction and worked in the committee for fuel and energy, nuclear energy, and nuclear safety of the Ukrainian parliament.
In 2002, Martynenko became a member of the Our Ukraine faction in the IV session committee of the Verkhovna Rada and became the deputy chairman of the energy committee. Later, he headed the deputy group Razom, whose deputies supported the financing of the Our Ukraine bloc and the election campaign of Viktor Yushchenko.
In the presidential elections of 2004, Martynenko was the deputy head of Yushchenko's campaign team and was in his inner circle. In March 2005, he took over the leadership of the 'Our Ukraine' faction (after the departure of chairman Roman Bessmertny to work in Yulia Tymoshenko's government) and remained its head until the end of the session council.
In the 2006 elections, Martynenko was a member of the presidium of the pro-Ukrainian party 'Our Ukraine' (NSNU), chairman of the Kyiv party organization - he was elected to parliament under number 21 on the Our Ukraine bloc list. He took over the leadership of the energy committee. The position of the faction leader (and party chairman) was then taken by Vyacheslav Kirilenko.
From 2007 to 2012, he was a People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VI Congress of Our Ukraine - National Self-Defense (NUNS), and for the second time, he chaired the energy policy committee of the Verkhovna Rada. In January 2009, he took over the leadership of the NUNS faction.
From December 2012 to November 2014, he was a People's Deputy of Ukraine for the Batkivshchyna party (No. 17 on the ballot). Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada committee for fuel and energy, nuclear energy, and nuclear safety.
In the fall of 2014, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in the early elections on the lists of the People's Front (under No. 14). Deputy Leader of the People's Front faction. Head of the energy committee of the Verkhovna Rada and the committee for nuclear energy and nuclear safety.
On December 1, 2015, Martynenko made a statement in the apparatus of the Verkhovna Rada about resigning his deputy mandate, which was justified by the fact that a 'powerful discrediting campaign' was being waged against him. The statement followed after the deputy of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, Sergey Leshchenko, received an official letter from Swiss law enforcement authorities on October 22 about the initiation of a criminal case against Martynenko. Martynenko himself has repeatedly denied all allegations.
On December 22, 2015, the parliament voted for the third time to deprive Martynenko of his deputy mandate.
On April 20, 2017, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine announced that Martynenko was suspected of embezzling funds from the state enterprise Eastern Mining and Processing Plant (Yellow Water, Dnipropetrovsk Region).On the same day, NABU detectives arrested Martynenko.
On April 22, the Sulejów District Court in Kyiv released Nikolai Martynenko from custody under conditions granted by three ministers and 18 people's deputies of the People's Front faction.
On December 19, 2019, the case against Nikolai Martynenko was transferred to a Swiss court.
In June 2020, the Swiss first-instance court found Martynenko guilty of money laundering of 2.8 million euros and sentenced him to 12 months in prison and 16 months of probation.
On July 28, 2022, Nikolai Martynenko received a second charge of bribery. Martynenko is accused under Articles 368 and 209 of the Criminal Code. According to investigators, the former deputy received 311,600 euros from the management of the Czech company Skoda JS, which is engaged in the construction and operation of nuclear power plants, for lobbying interests in Ukraine in July 2014.
Public Activities. Martynenko is the chairman of the board of a well-known expert organization, 'Razumkov Center.'
Family. Married, has four daughters and one son.
29.12.2023