Omelchenko Grigory

Date of Birth: 04.05.1951

Place of Birth. Education. Born in the village of Novoselitsa in the Mirgorod district of the Poltava region. In 1976, he graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv with a law degree. Doctor of Law.

Career. After school, he worked in a collective agricultural enterprise and served in the army. After graduating, he worked as an investigator in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

Since 1988, he has been a lecturer and professor at the Kyiv Police Academy.

1992-1994 Head of the Department for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime of the Main Directorate of Military Counterintelligence of the SBU.

1992-1998 Co-founder, chairman, and then deputy head of the Union of Officers of Ukraine (SOYUZ).

1994-1996 Member of the Coordinating Committee for the Fight Against Organized Crime.

1997-2000 Member of the Coordinating Council for Judicial and Legal Reforms under the President of Ukraine.

1999-2000 Deputy Head of the UNP Sobor, member of the Presidium of the Central Council.

2002-2005 Head of SOYUZ.

Since 1994, he has been a member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. In the parliaments of the II and III convocations, he was non-partisan and outside the factions. In the IV, V, and VI convocations, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada via the list of Yulia Tymoshenko's Bloc. He was a member of the parliamentary committee investigating the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze. In September 2005, Omelchenko accused the President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma of organizing this murder, and Speaker Volodymyr Litvin of instigating it.

In October 2009, the politician announced his withdrawal from Yulia Tymoshenko's Fatherland party. He explained his decision by stating that 'there are people in the party who have previously been convicted of group rape, theft, and fraud.' This statement arose in the context of a scandal involving the abuse of minors in Crimea. At that time, Omelchenko announced to the press that the names of three long-term deputies were mentioned in the case. The media cited the names of Viktor Ukolov, Sergey Terekhin, and Ruslan Bogdan from Butivtsi. Omelchenko was unanimously expelled from the BYuT faction.

As of January 2010, he is the chairman of the Human Rights Defender party.

In September 2010, Omelchenko was admitted during the IX Congress of the Our Ukraine party. In the fall of 2012, he ran for this political force in the Verkhovna Rada (No. 10 on the list), but the party did not overcome the 5% barrier.

Omelchenko is a master of hand-to-hand combat, lieutenant general.

Awards. Hero of Ukraine.

Family. Married, has two children.

04.05.2022