Oleh Yuriiovych Tatarov is a Ukrainian lawyer and administrator.
20 Facts About Oleh Tatarov
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Oleh Tatarov began working in the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1999, later becoming its deputy head in 2011, before being dismissed from his post in 2014 following the Revolution of Dignity which he had worked to suppress under then Minister of the Interior Vitaliy Zakharchenko.
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Oleh Tatarov has been involved in Thai boxing since childhood and heads the Kyiv Thai Boxing Federation.
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In 2003, Tatarov graduated from the National Academy of Internal Affairs.
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Oleh Tatarov graduated from the University of London and obtained a European bar license.
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Oleh Tatarov is an active member of specialised academic councils for the defence of PhD and doctoral theses.
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Oleh Tatarov is the author of more than 300 scientific and educational works on criminal procedure and forensic science.
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Oleh Tatarov justified this by "the need to guarantee the safe passage of public transport".
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Oleh Tatarov stated that just before his kidnapping, Bulatov had purchased an expensive laptop using donation money from Euromaidan supporters, and had later purchased money from iTunes.
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Oleh Tatarov worked as the lawyer of the ex-deputy head of the Yanukovych administration, Andriy Portnov.
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Oleh Tatarov was the lawyer of Olesya Kuznetsova, the widow of Ivan Kuznetsov, one of the two perpetrators of the attempted murder of Serhii Sternenko.
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Oleh Tatarov started in the presidential team by coordinating the work of law enforcement agencies: the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine, the State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine, and the National Police of Ukraine.
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Oleh Tatarov's appointment drew immediate and fierce criticism from Euromaidan activists and families of the victims and outrage among the general public.
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Law enforcement officers believe that at the request of the developers, Oleh Tatarov agreed with the Kyiv NDEKC of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2020 to write an examination with distorted content, which was later referred to in "UkrBud".
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Maksym Mykytas, former head of the construction company Ukrbud, testified in court that in 2019, when Mykytas was a suspect in a case of theft, Oleh Tatarov gave a US$600,000 bribe to High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine employees to convince the HACC to release Mykytas on bail at a low value of the bail bond.
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On 28 November 2020, Oleh Tatarov stated that NABU Director Artem Sytnyk is "the root of problems in the anti-corruption policy of the state".
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The president's office, for its part, said that Oleh Tatarov expressed a personal opinion which does not reflect the position of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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On 14 December 2021, the Shevchenkivsky District Court ordered the case against Oleh Tatarov to be closed, on the grounds that the case had passed the time limit for investigation.
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Oleh Tatarov called this report "fake news" and turned to law enforcement officers to sue the writers.
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Oleh Tatarov is associated with individual members of the commission for the election of the head of SAPO, which, with the tacit consent of top state officials, obstructed the appointment of the head of the SAPO for more than a year and a half.