18 Facts About Andriy Kostin

Andriy Yevhenovych Kostin is a Ukrainian lawyer and politician.

Civil society organisations Transparency International Ukraine, Automaidan, Anti-Corruption Action Center and Dejure stated that Andriy Kostin did not satisfy the integrity criteria of the competition.

Andriy Kostin was the Head of the Verkhovna Rada Legal Policy Committee for two years, from 2020 to 2022.

On 27 July 2022, Andriy Kostin was voted by the Verkhovna Rada as the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.

Andriy Kostin tended in his resignation on 22 October 2024, this resignation was approved by the Verkhovna Rada on 29 October.

Andriy Kostin studied law from 1990 to 1995 at Odesa University.

Andriy Kostin became deputy director and then Director of Pravo, a legal firm, starting in 1998.

Andriy Kostin has held several roles in lawyers' organisations in Odesa and internationally.

Andriy Kostin was a member of the International Bar Association Council from 2013 to 2015.

Andriy Kostin served as a member of Verkhovna Rada from the Servant of the People party from 2019 to 2022.

The Open Register of National Public Actors of Ukraine stated that Andriy Kostin's wife was an assistant consultant for fellow Servant of the People parliamentarian and committee member Maksym Dyrdin, whose own wife was an assistant consultant to Andriy Kostin.

Andriy Kostin was among the 37 candidates who qualified for an interview, which was scheduled for 4 June 2021.

Olena Shcherban, a lawyer of the Anti-Corruption Action Center, stated that Andriy Kostin should have been ineligible under the criteria for political neutrality, since he was a member of the Servant of the People party and was the head of the Verkhovna Rada legal policy committee.

In July 2021, while legislation for creating the Ukrainian Ethics Council was being debated, Andriy Kostin proposed an amendment to reduce the mandate of international members of the Council from six years, as proposed by the Venice Commission, to three years.

In November 2021, as deputy chair of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine negotiating the Minsk agreements that aimed to resolve the War in Donbas, Andriy Kostin stated that the Russian delegation "didn't want to continue" negotiations on a draft law for local self-government in Donbas.

On 27 July 2022, Andriy Kostin was voted by the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, as the new Prosecutor General of Ukraine, in replacement of Iryna Venediktova.

Andriy Kostin tended in his resignation as prosecutor-general on 22 October 2024.

Andriy Kostin did so while taken responsibility for a national draft-dodging scandal.