Yuriy Vitaliyovych Lutsenko is a Ukrainian politician whose most recent post was Prosecutor General of Ukraine from 12 May 2016 until 29 August 2019.
52 Facts About Yuriy Lutsenko
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Yuriy Lutsenko occupied this post in the two cabinets of Yulia Tymoshenko and in the cabinets of Yuriy Yekhanurov and Viktor Yanukovych.
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The Ministry of Internal Affairs is the Ukrainian police authority, and Yuriy Lutsenko became the first civilian minister in February 2005.
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Yuriy Lutsenko is a former leader of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, and a former leader of its faction in the Verkhovna Rada.
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In 2010, Yuriy Lutsenko was charged with abuse of office and forgery by Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Pshonka, in what was widely viewed as political retaliation for having investigated one of Yanukovych's cabinet members four years earlier.
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Yuriy Lutsenko was dismissed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in 2019; Trump later tried unsuccessfully to pressure Zelenskyy to reinstate him.
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Yuriy Lutsenko's father was Vitaliy Ivanovych Lutsenko, who was elected people's deputy of Ukraine in 1994 and 1998, and secretary of the Central Committee of Communist Party of Ukraine.
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Yuriy Lutsenko earned his degree in engineering in 1989 from Lviv Polytechnical Institute.
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Yuriy Lutsenko first gained public fame as one of the leaders of the Ukraine without Kuchma campaign, which followed the Cassette Scandal of 2000.
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Yuriy Lutsenko was one of the "faces of the Orange Revolution".
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From 1991, Yuriy Lutsenko was a long-term member of the Socialist Party of Ukraine ; prior to his appointment to the executive branch, he was people's deputy in the Verkhovna Rada beginning in February 2002.
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Yuriy Lutsenko belonged to the pro-European faction akin to social democratic parties in the rest of Europe, rather than a post-Soviet oldfashioned socialism.
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However, after President Viktor Yushchenko agreed to allow the forming of the cabinet in exchange for several political concessions including the ability to pick the Minister of Interior, Yuriy Lutsenko stated that the president asked him personally to remain as the minister, and he would do so.
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Yuriy Lutsenko was formally dismissed by the Verkhovna Rada on 1 December 2006.
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On 18 December 2007, Yuriy Lutsenko again became minister of Internal Affairs, when Yulia Tymoshenko was again elected Prime Minister of Ukraine.
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In early May 2009, Yuriy Lutsenko became entangled in a scandal concerning his behaviour during a visit to Germany.
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On 12 May 2009, Yuriy Lutsenko sent in his resignation from the post of interior minister.
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Yuriy Lutsenko said none of these publications mentioned the apologies of the German police.
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Yuriy Lutsenko was confident that a dirty campaign had been waged against him in Ukraine.
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Later, on 12 May 2009, Yuriy Lutsenko claimed that he would sue Bild.
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The Party of Regions faction insisted on accepting the resignation of Yuriy Lutsenko without getting any proof of the incident at Frankfurt airport.
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Yuriy Lutsenko was dismissed by the Verkhovna Rada on 28 January 2010.
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In 2010, Yuriy Lutsenko became the leader of the party People's Self-Defense Political Party.
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On 13 December 2010, Yuriy Lutsenko was charged with abuse of office and forgery by Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Pshonka.
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Yuriy Lutsenko was charged with having signed an order whilst on holiday and not having cancelled the traditional "National Militia Day" despite a general instruction from the then Prime Minister to make budgetary savings where possible.
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Yuriy Lutsenko has been jailed since 26 December 2010 in Kyiv's Lukyanivka Prison.
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Yuriy Lutsenko went on a hunger strike from 22 April till 24 May 2011 in protest against his "preventive punishment".
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Yuriy Lutsenko filed a complaint in a US court on 14 December 2011 against his prosecutors, made possible by the Alien Tort Statute, for "illegal arrest and arbitrarily prolonged detention".
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On 27 February 2012, after a pre-trial detention of 14 months, Yuriy Lutsenko was sentenced to fours year in jail for embezzlement and abuse of office.
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On 17 August 2012, Yuriy Lutsenko was sentenced to two years in prison for the extension of an investigative case concerning Valentyn Davydenko, the driver of former Security Service of Ukraine First Deputy Chief Volodymyr Satsiuk, as part of an investigation into the poisoning of then presidential candidate Viktor Yuschenko.
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Yuriy Lutsenko served his time in a prison in the city of Mena.
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Yuriy Lutsenko lost his appeal on 3 April 2013; this High Court ruling could be challenged in any other Ukrainian court.
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The judges of the Higher Specialized Court on Civil and Criminal Cases will on 10 April 2013 announce a ruling on the appeal against the second conviction of Yuriy Lutsenko regarding the poisoning of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko; this will not influence the term of Yuriy Lutsenko's imprisonment.
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The requests to pardon Yuriy Lutsenko was made by Ukrainian parliamentary Lutkovska, former President of the European Parliament Pat Cox and former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski.
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Yuriy Lutsenko stated the day after his release he will "continue to remain in politics".
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In November 2013, Yuriy Lutsenko became one of the organizers of Euromaidan.
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Yuriy Lutsenko was hospitalised on 11 January 2014 in an intensive care ward after being beaten by police in protests following the sentence of verdicts in the 2011 Vasylkiv terror plot.
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Yuriy Lutsenko had arrived at the courthouse after initial clashes between police and protesters and after 400 riot police had arrived.
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Yuriy Lutsenko has received an official status of victim of a crime.
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On 17 June 2014, Yuriy Lutsenko was appointed as adviser to President Petro Poroshenko; he had been adviser to Poroshenko's predecessor acting President Oleksandr Turchynov.
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On 27 August 2014, Yuriy Lutsenko was elected the leader of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc.
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Yuriy Lutsenko then became leader of the party's faction in the Verkhovna Rada.
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Yuriy Lutsenko, who has no law degree, was stripped of his mandate as a People's Deputy.
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The appointment was the culmination of nine years of Yuriy Lutsenko expressing his desire to be appointed to the position, beginning during the 2007 Ukrainian political crisis.
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From August until December 2016, Yuriy Lutsenko conducted an investigation into Ukraine-born Russian GRU agent Konstantin Kilimnik, but did not arrest Kilimnik.
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The National Anti-Corruption Bureau informed the United States Department of State that Yuriy Lutsenko had both thwarted Ukraine's investigation into Kilimink and allowed Kilimnik to leave Ukraine for Russia.
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The National Anti-Corruption Bureau informed the United States Department of State that Yuriy Lutsenko had thwarted both Ukraine's investigation into Manafort and Mueller's investigations into Manafort.
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Yuriy Lutsenko stated he considered the investigation of the case effective and that he was outraged by what he considered "'PR on blood' around the Handziuk case".
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Documents, provided by Lev Parnas to the US House Intelligence Committee, outlined text exchanges in which Yuriy Lutsenko pushed for the ouster of then US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and offered information related to former US Vice President Joe Biden in return.
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Trump pressured Zelenskyy to reinstate Yuriy Lutsenko and threatened to withhold $400 million in previously approved military and security aid to Ukraine if he did not.
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Early 2023 Yuriy Lutsenko was promoted to the rank of Kapitan.
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Yuriy Lutsenko's mandate was officially terminated on 12 November 2019.