Vasiliev Gennady
Gennady Andreevich Vasiliev
Date of Birth: 03.10.1953
Gennady Andreevich Vasiliev - the Attorney General of Ukraine (2003-2004).
Place of Birth. Education. A native of Donetsk. Graduated from Kharkiv Law Institute. Candidate of legal sciences.
Career in the Prosecutor's Office. After graduation, Vasiliev worked in the Prosecutor's Office of the Lenin District of Donetsk. He was the head of the investigative department of the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor's Office. He then headed the same prosecutor's office for six years. His older brother Alexander Vasiliev (born 1951) was at the same time the head of the regional control and revision department, and earlier held the position of head of the tax administration in the Donetsk region.
Mr. Vasiliev was elected a people's deputy of Ukraine several times (in 1994, 1998, 2002, and 2007). In the IV convocation of the Verkhovna Rada, he was in the faction of United Ukraine, formed on the basis of the 'pro-Kuchma' electoral bloc For a United Ukraine!. He was elected as the first vice-speaker of parliament by a pro-presidential majority.
On November 18, 2003, President Leonid Kuchma appointed Vasiliev as the Attorney General of Ukraine. He replaced the dismissed Svyatoslav Piskun, who was removed for 'excessive politicization of the agency as a whole and creating his own political image.' He lost his position on December 9, 2004 - after Piskun sought reinstatement as the head of the GPU in the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv. During his leadership of the Prosecutor's Office before Vasiliev, the opposition repeatedly accused him of catering to the interests of the ruling regime and the 'Donetsk clan.'
In the early parliamentary elections of 2007, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada on the list of the Party of Regions. A member of the parliamentary committee on combating corruption and organized crime.
On April 28, 2010, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Administration of President Viktor Yanukovych. However, he was dismissed on February 2, 2011. As noted by the Deputy Head of the Office, Anna German, it was a personal request from Vasiliev. After leaving the administration, he returned to the Verkhovna Rada.
From December 2012 to November 2014 - a people's deputy of Ukraine of the VII convocation, elected from the Party of Regions (No. 54). A member of the parliamentary committee on legislative support of law enforcement activities. Independent.
Scandals. A few months after his resignation, the prosecutor's office opened a criminal case against its former chief on suspicion of exceeding official powers. In addition, the GPU investigated Vasiliev's degree of involvement in the attempted illegal seizure of 1,700 hectares of land in the Kagarlyk district of Kyiv region, which belonged to the correctional labor colony No. 115 in 2004. For their part, representatives of the Party of Regions stated that Vasiliev was being persecuted for political reasons - for 'speaking out against gross violations of legislation during the Orange Revolution', and later 'publicly and articulately giving a negative assessment of the work of the orange authorities.' Ultimately, none of the criminal cases in which the former Attorney General was involved was brought to court.
Politics. Despite his attempts, Vasiliev could not join the ranks of active players in Ukrainian politics. As the leader of the State party in the parliamentary elections of 2006, he, without reaching an agreement for a joint 'performance' with the Party of Regions and the PSPU of Natalia Vitrenko, created the electoral bloc State - Labor Union together with the All-Ukrainian Labor Party. The bloc received only 0.14% of the voters who came to the elections. However, at the announced unscheduled elections of the Verkhovna Rada in 2007, Vasiliev received an 'ironclad' 17th place on the list of one of the leaders of the race - the Party of Regions. Later, cooperation with the Regions led Vasiliev to the position of Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Sergey Levotskin.
Business. His work in the prosecutor's office did not prevent him from accumulating a considerable fortune. He is believed to be connected to large businesses in the coal industry, metallurgy, and finance. In particular, he is named as one of the owners of the largest coal company in the country, Energo (a company engaged in coking coal mining), with partners such as multimillionaires Viktor Nusenkiс and Leonid Baisarov.
He is among the richest Ukrainians. According to Focus magazine, at the beginning of 2008, the deputy and co-founder of Energo had a fortune of $575 million. A few months later, the publication Korrespondent counted even more - $1.66 billion, placing Vasiliev junior in 16th place on the list of the fifty leading domestic wealthy individuals.
Earlier, in 2006, Korrespondent reported that the Vasiliev brothers, holding high positions in the executive branch, 'were a valuable resource for Energo.' Thanks to their support, large financial and industrial groups were afraid to conflict with the company. And those who decided to try could face serious problems. The magazine provides an example of how a Pakistani investor Metallsrussia once set his sights on the pearl of Energo - the Donetsk Metallurgical Plant (DMZ). As a result, he had to complain about pressure from local authorities.