11 Facts About Yevgeny Shevchuk

Yevgeny Vasilyevich Shevchuk is a Transnistrian former politician who served as the second President of Transnistria, from 2011 to 2016.

Yevgeny Shevchuk was a deputy to the Supreme Soviet of Transnistria from 2000 until his election as president in 2011.

In 2017, Yevgeny Shevchuk fled to Moldova while being pursued on criminal charges.

Yevgeny Shevchuk was born in Rybnitsa, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union.

Yevgeny Shevchuk is a lawyer who has worked in government and private business.

On 22 July 2009, Yevgeny Shevchuk resigned from his post as speaker of parliament.

Anatoliy Kaminski, who was vice-speaker under Yevgeny Shevchuk and is vice chairman of Yevgeny Shevchuk's Obnovlenie party, was the only nominee to succeed him.

On 7 September 2016, Yevgeny Shevchuk issued the Decree No 348 "On the implementation of the results of the republican referendum held on 17 September 2006" in order to possibilitate a possible future annexation of Transnistria by Russia and to synchronize Transnistrian laws with Russian ones.

Yevgeny Shevchuk claimed that he crossed from PMR to Moldova in a taxi, whilst Russian-language media and certain PMR officials reported that he sailed across the Dnestr in a boat.

Yevgeny Shevchuk is accused of corruption, smuggling, abuse of power, misappropriation of state money in especially large amounts, as well as unreasonable delay in the payment of pensions and salaries.

On 21 December 2018, Yevgeny Shevchuk was sentenced in absentia by the Supreme Court to 16 years in prison and a fine of 600 million ruble.