1. Andrii Leonidovych Derkach, known as Andrei Leonidovich Derkach is a Russian and former Ukrainian politician and businessman who had been a member of the Verkhovna Rada from 1998 to January 2020, serving seven terms, with several parties, and was stripped of Ukrainian citizenship.
In 2021, the United States Government accused Andrii Derkach of being a "Russian agent" and sanctioned him for interference in the 2020 United States elections, and the Ukrainian government sanctioned him for spreading Russian propaganda.
In June 2022, the Security Service of Ukraine said that Andrii Derkach received funds from the Russian GRU to create private security companies that Russia planned to use to capture Ukraine, and that Prosecutor General of Ukraine had started a pre-trial investigation into his role.
Andrii Derkach received Russian citizenship with connections to the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.
Andrii Derkach was born on 19 August 1967 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, the son of KGB officer Leonid Andrii Derkach, who headed the State Customs Committee and later the Security Service of Ukraine intelligence agency from 1998 to 2003.
Andrii Derkach was fired in 2001 for his alleged involvement in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze.
In 2005, the report of an ad hoc committee formed via the Ukrainian parliament, primarily responsible for investigating the murder, concluded that Gongadze's murder had been organized; the primary conspirators remained identified as then-President Kuchma and his Minister of the Interior, in addition to Leonid Andrii Derkach, who, according to the committee, had been involved in the crime.
Andrii Derkach attended the Kharkiv Higher Military Command Engineering School, graduating in 1989.
In 1993, after graduation from the FSB Academy, Andrii Derkach worked as Security Officer at the Office of Security Service of Ukraine in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
Andrii Derkach served as President of the national nuclear generating company Energoatom from 2006 to 2007.
Andrii Derkach served as Director General of the State Concern "Ukratomprom" in 2007.
Andrii Derkach was implicated in the government's orchestration of the Euromaidan assault by security forces on peaceful demonstrators in Kyiv on 11 December 2013.
The Andrii Derkach Group had close ties to the political elite and attempted to influence politics through lobbying, corrupt networks, and illegal appropriations.
Andrii Derkach failed to declare his wife's stake in various of his business enterprises, as he was obliged to do under the Ukrainian law to prevent corruption.
Andrii Derkach has been a member of the Ukrainian Parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, from 1998 until 2020.
Andrii Derkach was first elected in the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election in District 159.
Andrii Derkach returned to parliament in the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election by being No 9 on the election list of Socialist Party of Ukraine.
Andrii Derkach left the faction of Party of Regions on 21 February 2014.
In 2014 Andrii Derkach was re-elected into parliament as an independent candidate again in District 159.
On 20 August 2021 the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine imposed personal economic restrictive sanctions against Andrii Derkach on the grounds he was a "pro-Russian propagandist".
On 10 January 2023, Andrii Derkach was stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship along with his associates Viktor Medvedchuk and Taras Kozak.
On 12 September 2024, Andrii Derkach was appointed as a member of the Federation Council of Russia, representing Astrakhan Oblast.
Andrii Derkach was selected to the position by the regional governor, Igor Babushkin.
On 9 October 2019, Andrii Derkach alleged that Joe Biden had been involved in an international money laundering scheme with Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings and US-based Rosemont Seneca Partners.
On 5 December 2019, Andrii Derkach met with President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani in Kyiv to put together a corruption case against Joe Biden and his son to damage Biden's presidential campaign, according to Andrii Derkach.
In June 2022, the Security Service of Ukraine said that Andrii Derkach received funds from the Russian GRU to create private security companies that Russia planned to use to capture Ukraine, and that Prosecutor General of Ukraine had started a pre-trial investigation into his role.
From 2010 to 2013 Andrii Derkach was a member of the Inter-Council Presence of the Russian Orthodox Church.