Swjatoslaw Piskun

Date of Birth:03.08.1959

Place of Birth. Education. Born in Berdychi, Zhytomyr Oblast. In 1984, he graduated from Ivan Franko Lviv National University with a degree in law (qualification - lawyer).

Career. From 1976 to 1977, he worked as a locksmith-repairman at the Komsomolets factory in Berdychi.

After military service and four years of study, he worked as a senior investigator at the Prosecutor's Office in Irpin, Kyiv Oblast from 1984 to 1988.

1988-1990 - instructor of the organizational department of the regional committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine in Irpin.

1990-1997 - Prosecutor of the General Prosecutor's Office of Kyiv Oblast, criminal prosecutor of the General Prosecutor's Office of Kyiv Oblast, deputy prosecutor of Kyiv-Sviatoshyn district, deputy prosecutor of Irpin, head of the investigation department of organized crime of the General Prosecutor's Office of Kyiv Oblast.

1997-2002 - Head of the investigation department, deputy head of the tax police - head of the investigation department of the Tax Police of Ukraine, deputy chairman of the State Tax Administration of Ukraine under Mykola Azarov.

In 2002, he was appointed the first Prosecutor General of Ukraine at the suggestion of President Leonid Kuchma. After his dismissal in 2003 due to 'excessive politicization of the agency in general and the creation of his own political image', Piskun was replaced as head of the GPU by Hennadiy Vasylyev.

In 2004, Piskun was the deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine under Vladimir Radchenko. In December of the same year, he returned to his position as Prosecutor General upon the order of the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv. In October 2005, President Viktor Yushchenko initiated his resignation due to dissatisfaction with Piskun's work. Oleksandr Medvedko took over as head of the GPU.

On April 26, 2007, Yushchenko reinstated Piskun, who was in conflict with the Party of Regions and its leader Viktor Yanukovych, to his former position. A month later, on May 24, he was dismissed again. The official reason for Piskun's rapid dismissal was that he had not resigned his deputy mandate within 20 days, i.e., he worked simultaneously in the executive and legislative branches. According to observers, however, the sudden resignation followed because the old-new Prosecutor General did not meet the expectations of the head of state in his fight against the ruling coalition.

In 2006 and 2007, Piskun was elected twice as a deputy to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Both times on the list of the Party of Regions, he remained however non-partisan. Member of the parliamentary committee for legislative measures in the field of law enforcement.

In the autumn of 2012, he ran as an independent in district No. 63 in Zhytomyr Oblast for the Verkhovna Rada of the VII Congress, but lost to Angelika Labunska.

On July 30, 2020, he was appointed as an advisor to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Iryna Venediktova and was dismissed from his position on August 25.

Public Activities. Since 2001, he has been the deputy chairman of the Bar Association of Ukraine.

In May 2016, Piskun was elected chairman of this organization at the congress of the Bar Association of Ukraine, one of his deputy chairmen became the former Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada for Human Rights Nina Karpachova.

Family. His wife Svitlana Sevastyanovna was born in 1962 in Manevychi, Volyn Oblast. As mentioned in the politician's biography on the website of the Party of Regions, she is a housewife. The couple has two children - a daughter, Tatyana (1983), and a son, Swjatoslaw (2000).

07.03.2022