Iryna Valentynivna Venediktova is a Ukrainian politician, academic, and lawyer, previously a prosecutor general of Ukraine from March 2020 to July 2022.
22 Facts About Iryna Venediktova
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Iryna Venediktova was the first woman to hold the office and was suspended on 17 July 2022 by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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Iryna Venediktova was born on 21 September 1978 in Kharkiv in a family of lawyers.
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Iryna Venediktova's father, Valentyn Semenovych Venediktov, was a major general of the police, Doctor of Law, professor, an honored lawyer of Ukraine, a corresponding member of the Engineering Academy of Ukraine, and a vice-rector of the Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs.
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Iryna Venediktova's mother, Valentyna Mykhailivna Venediktova, was a candidate of juridical science and worked at both Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University and Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs.
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Iryna Venediktova did research and taught at the same time.
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In 2000, Iryna Venediktova graduated with honours from Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs Faculty of Management and Computer Science, majoring in Law and Management.
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From 2000 to 2004, Iryna Venediktova was a lecturer at the Department of Jurisprudence at the Kharkiv Humanitarian Institute of the People's Ukrainian Academy.
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Iryna Venediktova provided training for doctors of philosophy, assisting in passing the defence of one doctor and ten candidates' law theses.
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Iryna Venediktova is the author of more than 100 scientific and scientific-methodical works published in national and foreign publications, among them 8 monographs, 80 scientific, and 4 scientific-methodical publications.
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In 2018, Iryna Venediktova became a legal adviser to Volodymyr Zelensky.
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Iryna Venediktova was a member of the campaign headquarters of the candidate for President of Ukraine Zelensky as an expert on judicial reform.
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On 29 August 2019, Iryna Venediktova took the chair of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Legal Policy.
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On 17 March 2020, Iryna Venediktova was appointed as a prosecutor general.
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Iryna Venediktova began her work as the prosecutor general with joint coordination meetings with the government law enforcement agencies, where they discussed the problems of investigating corruption crimes, as well as damage compensation to the state.
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Iryna Venediktova took personalharge of high-profile criminal cases, such as those involving journalists and activists, that are in the public eyets.
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Durinherhe first 100 days in power, Iryna Venediktova held 24 meetings at the Prosecutor General's Office with representatives of the competent authorities of foreign states and international organizations, during which the issue of continuing the reform of the prosecution authorities was discussed.
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On 4 June 2020, Iryna Venediktova chaired the coordination meeting at the Prosecutor General's Office with the heads of law enforcement agencies on combating tortures caused by law enforcement officers, as well as inhumane and degrading behaviour and punishment.
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On 16 September 2020, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine accused Iryna Venediktova of lying about several cases during her speech to the Ukrainian parliament the previous day.
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On 17 September 2020 Iryna Venediktova ordered the detention of Oleksandr Yurchenko, although two days earlier, on 15 September, she had claimed in parliament that there was insufficient grounds for signing an arrest warrant for Yurchenko.
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Iryna Venediktova stated that the Ukrainian prosecutors had collected 2,500 "possible war crimes cases", including the Mariupol theatre airstrike, and "several hundred suspects".
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On 17 July 2022, Iryna Venediktova was suspended as prosecutor general by Volodymyr Zelenskyy.