Mykola Mykolayovych Rudkovsky is a Ukrainian politician who was the fourth Minister of Transport and Communication from 2006 to 2007.
15 Facts About Mykola Rudkovsky
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Mykola Rudkovsky was the former chairman of the banned Socialist Party of Ukraine.
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Mykola Rudkovsky then moved to the Moscow State Business School as a trainee from February to September 1990, and studied at the Vienna University of Economics from September 1991 to January 1994.
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From September 1994 to September 1996, Mykola Rudkovsky worked for the President's Administration while residing in Kyiv on Kosiora Street.
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Mykola Rudkovsky served as the Minister of Transport and Communications from 4 August 2006 to 18 December 2007.
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Mykola Rudkovsky was the First Secretary of the Socialist Party of Ukraine, the First Secretary of Chernihiv SPU in November 2001, and the head of the SPU in October 2013.
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On 12 October 2013, Mykola Rudkovsky was elected chairman of the SPU.
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Mykola Rudkovsky fled Ukraine in 2014, after police began to focus on him as part of an investigation into the kidnapping of the ex-head of Naftogazvydobuvanny, Oleh Valeriyovych Seminskyi.
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Seminsky was kidnapped in 2012 and held hostage until 2015, and Mykola Rudkovsky's name was mentioned among the customers.
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Mykola Rudkovsky was again taken into custody on 28 September 2018 in Moscow on suspicion of being part of a group that stole items from the Russian Embassy in Kyiv in 2014.
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Mykola Rudkovsky was charged in 2007 with misusing his position of authority and embezzling a sizable sum of money.
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On 14 December 2007, the Security Service of Ukraine summoned Mykola Rudkovsky for questioning surrounding the alleged illegal use of Ministry of Transport public funds totaling 390,000 hryvnia during an official trip to Paris on a private charter plane the previous June.
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Mykola Rudkovsky was specifically accused of using public money to travel abroad.
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Mykola Rudkovsky was given a written order not to leave the country; he faced a sentence of up to 12 years in prison.
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Mykola Rudkovsky was arrested in September 2018 after landing in Moscow and was charged with assaulting the Russian embassy on 14 June 2014.