Michail Michailjuk
Biography of Michail Michailjuk
Date of Birth: 10.08.1948
Place of Birth. Education. Born in the village of Lypchany in the Mohyliw-Podilskyj district, Vinnytsia region. In 1967, he graduated from the Odessa Medical School. In 1975, he completed his studies at the Kharkiv Law Institute.
Career. After finishing medical school and military service, he worked for two years as an assistant to the epidemiologist at the Barna district sanitary institution in the Vinnytsia region.
While studying at the law faculty, he worked as a feldsher in one of the polyclinics in Kharkiv.
1975-1978 - People's Judge at the Barna District Court, Vinnytsia region.
1978-1981 - Legal advisor at PMK and lawyer of the Barna Legal Consultation.
1982-1994 - Senior assistant to the district attorney of Barna, and then attorney of the Chmelnytskyi district prosecutor's office. Also lectured at a university in Chmelnytskyi during this time.
1995-1996 - Chairman of the Browary District Court, Kyiv region.
Since 1999 - Judge at the Supreme Commercial Court of Ukraine (Kyiv).
Political Experiments. In 1998, he ran for deputy of the Ukrainian parliament - simultaneously in the Browary electoral district and on the list No. 50 of the SDPU (o). He did not make it into parliament.
Awards. Honored Lawyer of Ukraine (2007), Honorary Worker of the Judiciary of Ukraine. Awarded with a certificate of honor from the Ukrainian Parliament and an honorary award from the High Council of Justice.
Marital Status. Married (wife - economist). Raised two children - son Oleg (trained lawyer and economist) and daughter Alla (trained economist).
Hobbies. Playing button accordion, chess, billiards, skiing.
Death. On January 20, 2009, a burned car 'Nissan' with significant fire damage and the body of a man inside was discovered in a forest clearing near Kyiv. Law enforcement quickly established that the foreign car was registered in the name of Michail Michailjuk and suspected that the body of the owner was inside.
On January 30, the newspaper 'Sogodni,' citing employees of the Interior Ministry headquarters, reported that the burned body belonged to the judge of the VGH Michail Michailjuk. According to an official representative of the police press service, experts found that Michail Michailjuk was still alive when the car was on fire. No injuries were found on the body. Investigations are underway to determine whether the judge was poisoned, or exposed to drugs or psychotropic substances before his death.
'Most colleagues tend to believe that Michail Michailjuk was attacked by one of his countrymen who was prosecuted in Browary and took revenge on him after being released from prison. There is also a rumor: allegedly, judges were offered a large (literally in several million dollars) amount for a decision, but then they could not come to an agreement with the briber (either refused or agreed but no decision was made),' the newspaper wrote. It was noted that the Prosecutor General's Office has not yet confirmed this rumor.
In this context, Interior Minister Yuri Lutsenko put forward his hypothesis: the death occurred due to self-ignition. He stated that the doors and windows in the car were closed, the driver was belted in, and surveillance cameras at one of the gas stations recorded that a person entered the cabin with a canister.
If it turns out that Michail Michailjuk was murdered, this violent death will automatically belong to the particularly sensational cases: in the entire recent history of Ukraine, no such high-ranking judge has ever been murdered.
30.01.2009