Biography of Lutsenko fr vital. From convicts to prosecutors

26.08.2019

People's Deputy of three convocations, twice former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, convicted, served and pardoned official of the Yanukovych regime, and finally - current head"Bloc of Petro Poroshenko." All this is about Yuriy Lutsenko, one of the most recognizable politicians in Ukraine. Experts say that a large-scale discrediting campaign will soon begin against him, aimed at removing him from the post of head of the BPP. Whether this will be the case is still unclear, but there is no arguing that there are many “dark” episodes in Igor Vitalievich’s past.

"In the footsteps of my father"

Yuriy Lutsenko was born in December 1964 in the city of Rivne. His father Vitaly Ivanovich was a politician - he first served as secretary of the regional Rivne party committee, and later was a people's deputy of Ukraine as part of the Communist Party of Ukraine. This fact left an indelible mark on Yuri Vitalievich, because since childhood he wanted to be like his father. Higher education Lutsenko received his degree from the Lviv Polytechnic Institute at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. Mine career path He began as a site foreman at the Rivne Gazotron plant. At the same plant, he rose to the position of shop manager and chief designer.

He entered politics in 1991, becoming a member Socialist Party Ukraine (SPU). In 1994, he was appointed to the post of deputy head of the Rivne Regional Council. Over time, he became the head of the economic committee of the Rivne Regional State Administration. In September 1997, he was appointed Deputy Minister for Science and Technology. Was a personal assistant former prime minister Valery Pustovoitenko, as well as a consultant to the head of the SPU, Alexander Moroz. At the elections in 2002 he became a people's deputy on the lists of the SPU.

Path to ministers

During the Orange Revolution in 2004, he was one of the main organizers and activists of the Maidan, who supported the candidacy of Viktor Yushchenko for the presidency. His hard work bore fruit, and already in February 2005 he headed the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

One of Lutsenko’s first decisions as head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was the liquidation of the traffic police (there was a feeling that this was his personal revenge on the traffic cops). As a result, the number of accidents on the roads has increased significantly, and there is a rush to recreate this structure again.

In the summer of 2006, Ukrainian media accused Yuriy Lutsenko of friendship and patronage of the famous Russian businessman and deputy Alexander Babakov (Luzhnikovsky organized crime group). In particular, it was said that the connection with Lutsenko helped Babakov avoid inspections of his property in Ukraine. In addition, by order of Lutsenko, the persecution of Babakov’s main business competitor, Maxim Kurochkin, began. It should be noted that the facts of cooperation between Babakov and Lutsenko were also indicated by their repeated meetings in Kyiv.

After his resignation, Yuri Vitalievich took up a new political project called “People’s Self-Defense.” By the way, its main sponsor was David Zhvania, a former regional player, about whose machinations we wrote in the material

When he was head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he made a certain citizen Leonid Pristuplyuk (who had previously worked as a driver in the city of Rivne) his personal driver-bodyguard. So, in 2 years, Lutsenko pushed him to the rank of lieutenant colonel, while simultaneously awarding him the highest awards that were at the disposal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In addition, this “comrade” received an apartment in Kyiv out of turn. Experts state that it was under Lutsenko that complete chaos began in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In all regions, police officers were illegally assigned special ranks, followed by the payment of substantial money.

Over time, deputies did not like the fact that Lutsenko solely controls the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Over the course of a year and a half, the Verkhovna Rada tried to dismiss him nine times (people's deputies succeeded only in December 2006).

Lutsenko went to the 2007 elections at the head of the united electoral bloc “Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense”. After the formation of a new government, he was again appointed Minister of the Interior. This time he held the position until the end of January 2010.

In May 2009, Yuriy Lutsenko was detained at one of the airports in Germany. According to the police, Yuri Vitalievich was in a state of alcohol intoxication. While being detained by police, he resisted, resulting in a fight. Lutsenko himself, commenting on this case, claims that he was not drunk, but was only protecting his son, whom he was taking home after surgery. Because of this episode, a loud scandal occurred in Ukraine, as a result of which Yuriy Lutsenko even submitted his resignation, but the government led by Yulia Tymoshenko did not accept it.

Report on the episode with Lutsenko at the airport in Frankfurt am Main:

"Criminal cases"

After Viktor Yanukovych’s team came to power, the prosecutor’s office opened a criminal case against Lutsenko (November 2, 2010). According to the case materials, Yuriy Lutsenko and his former driver Leonid Pristuplyuk were accused of “abuse of official powers for the purpose of taking possession of someone else’s property.” At the beginning of the winter of 2010, he was arrested and placed in custody in the Lukyanovka pre-trial detention center. During the court hearings, he prison term it was extended several times, and he himself was in the Mensk colony. At the end of February 2012, the notorious Pechersk court sentenced Lutsenko to four years in custody and also ordered the confiscation of all his property. At the beginning of April 2013, Yuri Vitalievich received a pardon from President Viktor Yanukovych and was released early from custody.

After leaving prison, Lutsenko withdrew from political affairs, however, with the beginning of Euromaidan in Ukraine, everything changed dramatically. On its wave, Yuri Vitalievich again became a politician of the first order.

Yuriy Lutsenko was hit on the head with a baton by Berkut

After the presidential elections in 2014, which Petro Poroshenko won, Lutsenko became his freelance adviser, and later headed the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction.

Wife - main breadwinner in family

Yuri Vitalievich’s wife Irina Lutsenko is the main businessman in the family. For a long time she worked at the Ukrainian New Telecommunications company, which belongs to their godfathers - the Voskoboynikov family. In this company she served as financial director. There is nothing terrible in this fact itself, but Yuriy Lutsenko, being the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, ordered all communication services to be ordered, using the then little-known company “Ukrainian New Telecommunications” as an intermediary. As a result of such an order, money poured into the company, which was headed by his wife, like a river. In fact, the company took control of all the funds of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which were used to ensure mobile communications.

By the way, after the arrest of Yuriy Vitalievich, Irina Lutsenko herself went into politics, and even became a people’s deputy from the Batkivshchyna party. In its composition, she topped the so-called list of “the richest families of the opposition.” According to her, after being elected to the Rada, it sold most business, and transferred the rest (beauty salons and real estate agencies) to her son.

Yuriy Lutsenko himself, according to his income declaration, already lives a lot on his salary alone. . What can we say about truly gigolo, “the poor breadwinner of a rich family.” Now Irina Lutsenko, like her husband, is a member of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc party.

In 1989 he graduated from the Faculty of Electronic Engineering of the Lviv Polytechnic Institute (now - National University"Lviv Polytechnic".

In 1989-1992 worked as a process engineer, site foreman, head of the technological bureau at the Rivne plant named after. 60th anniversary of October.
From 1992 to 1994 he held the position of chief designer of the Rivne Gazotron plant.
In 1994-1996 was deputy chairman of the Rivne Regional Council of People's Deputies, chairman of the Economics Committee of the Rivne Regional State Administration.
In 1996-1997 worked as head of the regional department science and technology policy and subordinate organizations of the Ministry of Ukraine for Science and Technology.
In 1997-1998 - Deputy Minister of Ukraine for Science and Technology in the Government of Valery Pustovoitenko.
In 1998-1999 was an assistant to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Valery Pustovoitenko.
From 1999 to 2002 - Assistant-consultant to the People's Deputy of Ukraine, leader of the Socialist Party Alexander Moroz.
In 2002, he was elected as a deputy to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the IV convocation according to the party lists of the Socialist Party.
In the fall of 2004, during the Orange Revolution, he was one of field commanders"Maidan", after which on February 4, 2005 he received the post of Minister of Internal Affairs, becoming the first civilian head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the history of Ukraine.
From 2005 to 2006, he served as Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the governments of Yulia Tymoshenko, Yuri Yekhanurov and Viktor Yanukovych. At the same time he was chairman of the Council of Ministers of Internal Affairs of the CIS.
After resigning from the post of head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in January 2007 he announced the creation social movement"People's Self-Defense", later transformed into a party. He was the leader of People's Self-Defense until March 2013, when the party joined the Bitkivshchyna party of Yulia Tymoshenko.
In 2006-2007 was an adviser to the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko.
On September 30, 2007, he was elected as a people's deputy of Ukraine to the Verkhovna Rada of the VI convocation from the pro-presidential bloc "Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense". Resigned early on December 19, 2007.
From December 18, 2007 to January 28, 2010, he served as Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the second government of Yulia Tymoshenko. In 2009-2010 headed the Council of Ministers of Internal Affairs of the CIS.
In November 2010, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine opened a criminal case against Yuriy Lutsenko, accusing him of misappropriation, embezzlement of property or taking possession of it through abuse of official position.
On February 27, 2012, former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko was sentenced by the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv to 4 years in prison with confiscation of property. Lutsenko was found guilty of abuse of power, as well as theft of state property in particular large sizes.
On August 17, 2012, the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv sentenced Yuriy Lutsenko to 2 years in prison in a criminal case related to the organization of illegal surveillance as part of his investigation into the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko in 2004.
On April 7, 2013, President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych signed a decree pardoning Yuriy Lutsenko.
From April 19 to June 17, 2014, Yuriy Lutsenko was an acting adviser. President of Ukraine Alexander Turchynov.
On June 17, 2014, he was appointed advisor to the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko (out of state).
On August 27, 2014, he was elected chairman of the Solidarity party, which on the same day was renamed the Petro Poroshenko Bloc party.
In early elections in October 2014, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada VIII convocation from the party "Petro Poroshenko Bloc" (second number on the list). He headed the party faction in parliament.
On May 12, 2016, at the proposal of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, the Verkhovna Rada approved Yuriy Lutsenko as the Prosecutor General of Ukraine (replacing Viktor Shokin in this post). 264 deputies voted for this decision, with 226 being the minimum required. On the same day, the president signed a decree on his appointment.
On November 6, 2018, Yuriy Lutsenko announced his resignation from the post of Prosecutor General of Ukraine. As Lutsenko explained, he does not intend to “tolerate interference in the work of law enforcement agencies, as well as accusations of inaction, in particular in the case of the murder of civil activist Ekaterina Handzyuk.” On November 9, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko did not accept his resignation, citing the fact that Lutsenko “received a vote of confidence in parliament and he faces important tasks.”

Married, has two sons. His wife Irina is a people's deputy of Ukraine, a member of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction. Sons - Alexander (born 1989) and Vitaly (born 1999).

People's Deputy of Ukraine

Yuriy Lutsenko - Prosecutor General of Ukraine, ex-head of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc party, ex-head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Native of Rivne. In 1989 he graduated from the Lviv Polytechnic Institute with a degree in electronic engineering. During the break between studies (1984-1986) he served in the army.

From 1989 to 1996 Lutsenko is a process engineer, site foreman, head of the technical bureau of the workshop at the 60th Anniversary of October plant, chief designer of the Gazotron plant in Rivne, deputy chairman of the Rivne regional council, chairman of the economics committee of the Rivne regional state administration. In 1997-1998 - Deputy Head of the Ministry of Science and Technology. From September 1998 to April 1999 - Assistant to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Valery Pustovoitenko. Then Lutsenko worked for three years as an assistant-consultant to the people's deputy, leader of the Socialist Party of Ukraine, Alexander Moroz, in the secretariat of the Verkhovna Rada. Secretary of the Political Council of the SPU in 1996-1998. He was a people's deputy of Ukraine from the Socialist Party in the parliament of the fourth convocation.

From the late 1990s until Viktor Yushchenko’s victory in the presidential elections in 2004, Lutsenko was an active fighter against the regime of Leonid Kuchma. In 2001 he was one of the leaders loud action protest "Ukraine without Kuchma", accompanied by serious clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement officers. In the fall of 2004, he was among the direct organizers and leaders of civil disobedience in Kyiv, and often spoke to people on the Maidan. On the wave of the Orange Revolution, on February 4, 2005, he assumed the post of head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Lutsenko became the first civilian head of this security agency in the history of Ukraine. He held positions in three governments in a row - Yulia Tymoshenko, Yuri Yekhanurov and Viktor Yanukovych.

After his resignation, Lutsenko announced the creation of an opposition social movement, People's Self-Defense, which was joined by former Ukrainians Mykola Katerynchuk and David Zhvania, and presidential adviser Taras Stetskiv. And this was followed by a search organized by the Prosecutor General’s Office in the oppositionist’s apartment and taking a written undertaking not to leave the place on suspicion of illegal, unjustified distribution of award pistols.

In 2007, the electoral bloc Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense (NUNS) was created. The list of candidates was headed by the former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

On December 18, 2007, shortly after the creation of the coalition between BYuT and NUNS, he was appointed head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Tymoshenko’s second government. On January 28, 2010, on the eve of the second round of the presidential election, in which Prime Minister Tymoshenko and the leader of the Party of Regions Yanukovych participated, at the initiative of the Party of Regions faction, the Verkhovna Rada dismissed Lutsenko. Tymoshenko convened an extraordinary meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers, at which Lutsenko was appointed First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and was entrusted with the duties of head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. However, after the Kyiv District Administrative Court stopped the government’s decision, the Cabinet of Ministers replaced it with Mikhail Klyuev. Dismissed after the appointment of new leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in March 2010.

On November 9, 2010, the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine opened a criminal case against former Minister of Internal Affairs Yuriy Lutsenko and ordered him not to leave. Lutsenko was suspected of committing a crime under Art. Criminal Code Art. 191 part 5 (taking over state property on an especially large scale through abuse of official position by prior conspiracy by a group of persons), and Part 3 of Art. 365 (excess official powers, leading to grave consequences).

On December 26, 2010, at approximately 13:00, Lutsenko was detained by SBU officers on suspicion of delaying familiarization with the materials of the criminal case, failure to appear for interrogations, and also preparing to escape abroad. The next day, the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv sentenced him to arrest for a period of two months. Lutsenko was placed in the Lukyanovsky pre-trial detention center. Later, the Kyiv Court of Appeal extended the arrest period to 5 months. After this decision, Lutsenko went on a hunger strike.

On February 27, 2012, by decision of the Pechersky District Court of Kiev, he was sentenced to 4 years in prison with confiscation of all personal property. On July 3, 2012, the European Court of Human Rights recognized illegal arrest Lutsenko at the stage judicial trial, and also recognized his arrest as directly politically motivated.

On April 7, 2013, President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych signed Decree No. 197/2013 “On pardoning convicts,” including Lutsenko.

On June 17, 2014, by decree No. 532/2014 of the head of state, he was appointed freelance adviser to the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.

On August 27, 2014, at the Solidarity party congress, Lutsenko was elected head of this political force. On the same day, the congress delegates approved the new name of the party - Petro Poroshenko Bloc. In the fall of 2014, he was elected to the Verzovna Rada from the BPP. Became head of the BPP faction in parliament.

Born on December 14, 1964 in Rivne. Father, Vitaly Ivanovich, was secretary of the Rivne regional party committee. Later - people's deputy and secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. Yuri Vitalievich studied at Rivne city gymnasium No. 7, from which he graduated with a gold medal.

In 1989 he graduated from the Faculty of Electronic Engineering of the Lviv Polytechnic Institute. By education, he is an electronics engineer. During the break between studies (1984-1986) he served in the army. At the age of 30 he became chairman of the economics committee of the Rivne Regional State Administration, and at 34 he became assistant to the prime minister.

From 1989 to 1996 Yuriy Lutsenko - process engineer, site foreman, head of the technical bureau of the workshop at the plant named after the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution, chief designer of the Gazotron plant in Rivne, deputy chairman of the Rivne regional council, chairman of the economics committee of the Rivne regional state administration.
In 1997-1998 - Deputy Head of the Ministry of Science and Technology. From September 1998 to April 1999 - Assistant to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Valery Pustovoitenko. Then Yuriy Lutsenko worked for three years as an assistant-consultant to the people's deputy, leader of the Socialist Party of Ukraine, Alexander Moroz, in the Secretariat of the Verkhovna Rada. Secretary of the Political Council of the SPU in 1996-1998. He was a people's deputy of Ukraine from the Socialist Party in the parliament of the fourth convocation.
From the late 1990s until the victory of Viktor Yushchenko in the presidential elections in 2004, Yuriy Lutsenko was an active fighter against the regime of Leonid Kuchma.
In 2001, he was one of the leaders of the high-profile protest “Ukraine without Kuchma,” which was accompanied by serious clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement officers.
In the fall of 2004, he was among the direct organizers and leaders of civil disobedience in Kyiv, and often spoke to people on the Maidan. In the wake of the “Orange Revolution,” on February 4, 2005, Lutsenko came to the post of head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and became the first civilian head of this law enforcement agency in the history of Ukraine. He held positions in three governments in a row - Yulia Tymoshenko, Yuri Yekhanurov and Viktor Yanukovych.
On December 1, 2006, he was dismissed from the post of Minister of Internal Affairs. He was replaced by a former party member, member of the anti-crisis coalition Vasily Tsushko.

After his resignation, Yuriy Lutsenko announced the creation of an opposition social movement "People's Self-Defense", which was joined by former "our Ukrainians" Mykola Katerynchuk and David Zhvania, Advisor to the President Taras Stetskiv. The financier of the project was David Zhvania. This was followed by a search organized by the Prosecutor General's Office in the oppositionist's apartment and taking a written undertaking not to leave the place on suspicion of illegal, unjustified distribution of award pistols.

Having handed over the minister’s portfolio, Yuriy Lutsenko announced the need to hold early parliamentary elections and, in essence, began election campaign"People's Self-Defense". Supported the President’s initiative for the early dissolution of the Verkhovna Rada of the fifth convocation. When unscheduled elections became a reality, the Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense (NUNS) electoral bloc was created. The list of candidates was headed by the former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

On December 18, 2007, shortly after the creation of the coalition between BYuT and NUNS, he was appointed head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the second government of Yulia Tymoshenko. On January 28, 2010, on the eve of the second round of the presidential elections, in which Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and the leader of the Party of Regions Viktor Yanukovych participated, at the initiative of the PR faction, the Verkhovna Rada dismissed Lutsenko. Yulia Tymoshenko convened an extraordinary meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers, at which Yuriy Lutsenko was appointed First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and was entrusted with the duties of head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. However, after the Kyiv District Administrative Court stopped the government's decision, the Cabinet of Ministers replaced him with Mikhail Klyuev. Dismissed after the appointment of new leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in March 2010.

August 27, 2014 Yuriy Lutsenko became the head of the party “Petro Poroshenko Bloc”.

Since November 2014, people's deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the VIII convocation.

Since May 12, 2016, Prosecutor General of Ukraine.

Family and connections

Family and connections
Family	We met my wife Irina at the institute Lutsenko is married. He has two sons, Alexander (born in 1989) and Vitaly (born in 1999). His wife Irina is the financial director at the Ukrainian Newest Telecommunications company. Yuri Vitalievich met his wife Irina during his student years. “We met at the institute. Yura was in the second year, I was in the first. The noisiest and most agitated in the entire institute were probably Lutsenko and his company. And I came from the regional center - an excellent student, a modest one. cheerful guys who lived a very hectic life, I was a little afraid,” recalls Irina Lutsenko (“Mirror of the Week,” March 5, 2005). When asked who is in charge in their family, Irina replies: “I think that Yura is the head, I am the neck. Do you understand what I mean?”
Close connections	Yuriy Lutsenko is friends with Vyacheslav Kirilenko, Taras Stetskiv, David Zhvania, Oles Doniy, Vladimir Filenko, Gennady Moskal, Vladimir Ariev, Kirill Kulikov.

Private bussiness

Terminator

Yuriy Lutsenko began his activities in the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2005 with a serious purge of personnel. The first order of the new Minister concerned the creation of the Department of Internal Security, to which he subordinated the inspection of personnel and the former department of internal security, and also transferred (for a while) the special unit "Sokol" to the Organized Crime Control Department, which had previously been involved in neutralizing especially dangerous criminals. The new chief of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was confident that without establishing order in his department, it would be impossible to achieve law and order in the country.

Many drivers remember Yu. Lutsenko for his reforms in the traffic police. For example, the elimination of checkpoints on the approaches to settlements, attempts to put an end to the use of "thieves" license plates, personal checks of road posts. The second coming to the post of head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was marked by the purge of the ranks of the traffic police and thousands selected for violations of the Rules traffic driver's licenses. And also - initiatives to create a National Anti-Corruption Bureau, which would investigate the “exploits” of senior officials, deputies, judges, and to enlarge the Ministry of Internal Affairs at the expense of border and customs services.

In an interview in February 2005, Lutsenko said:

Soon after the appointment of Yuriy Lutsenko, there was a wave of reports about the initiation of a number of criminal cases, in which many were involved famous politicians and businessmen who supported former government. However, no high-profile trials followed the “cases.” According to thousands of Ukrainians, the revolutionary slogan “Prison for bandits!” remained unrealized. On this occasion, Lutsenko has made excuses more than once: many cases investigated by the police are stuck in the prosecutor's office. However, in September 2006, Lutsenko was among the top three government officials (together with Viktor Yanukovych and BYuT leader Yulia Tymoshenko), whose actions Ukrainians support the most (according to a poll by the Razumkov Center).

Kolesnikov case

After the 2004 presidential elections and the Orange Revolution, Boris Kolesnikov came under the radar of political opponents who came to power. As part of the implementation of Viktor Yushchenko’s election slogan “Prison for bandits!” law enforcement agencies a criminal case was opened against the chairman of the Donetsk regional council. In particular, he was accused of taking over, with the use of extortion, shares of the fashionable Donetsk shopping center "White Swan". The politician spent several months in a pre-trial detention center. Eminent foreign and domestic lawyers, with the support of authoritative “regional” politicians, achieved the release of Kolesnikov from custody and the closure of the criminal case “due to the lack of corpus delicti.” And later, the victim in the "Kolesnikov case", the former co-owner " white swan", he himself came under investigation - "for giving false testimony."

During his stay in a pre-trial detention center in 2005, Boris Kolesnikov was supported by Raisa Bogatyreva. Photo: TabloID

Boris Kolesnikov was detained in April 2005 after interrogation at the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine. The Chairman of the Donetsk Regional Council was summoned to the Prosecutor General's Office as a witness in the case of separatism (the case was initiated in connection with the holding of a congress of representatives of the southern and eastern regions of Ukraine on November 28, 2004 in Severodonetsk. The congress decided to hold a referendum and declare Donbass autonomy if Viktor Yanukovych is not recognized President of Ukraine).

I personally consider it a great success of the police that in a month of work more than a hundred employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, they were able to carry out all this in deep secrecy. We have kept the victim's last name a secret for as long as possible. We were able to keep secret the investigative actions to record the illegal thefts of large Money. And the first detention was connected precisely with this episode. And only after we received direct testimony from the victim, a number of indirect evidence, carried out a number of investigative actions, including arrest, - only after that the General Prosecutor's Office decided to call Mr. Kolesnikov to testify. Then the investigator entered the case and decided to detain Mr. Kolesnikov, using Article 106 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which directly indicates the possibility of detention if witnesses and the victim testify against a specific citizen

According to Lutsenko, the investigation established that Kolesnikov was engaged in extortion. In particular, three attempts were made on the person who was required to hand over the shares. “What kind of politics? - This is natural banditry!” - said the minister.

Lutsenko said that Kolesnikov was detained under Part 4 of Article 189 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - “Extortion leading to property damage on an especially large scale, carried out organized group or associated with the infliction of grievous bodily harm." This crime provides for imprisonment for a term of 7 to 12 years.

Reference: In the spring of 2005, head of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, author of the books Donetsk Mafia. Anthology and the Donetsk mafia. Reboot Boris Penchuk accused the then head of the Donetsk regional council, Boris Kolesnikov, of extorting a controlling stake in one of the large shopping centers in Donetsk, White Swan.

On April 6, 2005, Kolesnikov was arrested and spent several months in the Lukyanovsky pre-trial detention center. On July 13, 2005, he was released from custody. Some time later, the Prosecutor General's Office closed this criminal case for lack of corpus delicti. In July 2006, Kolesnikov sued Penchuk, accusing him of libel and extortion.

On March 2, 2009, the Voroshilovsky District Court of Donetsk sentenced Penchuk to eight years in prison with confiscation of property under Part 4 of Art. 189 (extortion) and part 3 of Art. 383 of the Criminal Code (giving untruthful testimony). Supreme Court Ukraine, where the convict's lawyers appealed, reduced the prison term to four years. Penchuk was released early a month ago.

On October 30, 2007, the head of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Boris Penchuk, accused Yuriy Lutsenko of pressure. In particular, Penchuk said that in 2005, the then head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs used him to “importantly imprison Boris Kolesnikov.” "I was only a tool in dirty game dirty and unscrupulous minister,” he said.

Penchuk promised to sue the leader of Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense. And the Party of Regions asked President Yushchenko to evaluate the repressions that Lutsenko allegedly carried out.

The Minister of Internal Affairs denied Penchuk's accusations. According to him, during the investigative process in the White Swan case, he never communicated “neither with Penchuk, nor with Kolesnikov, nor with the investigator who led the case.”

Reference: Speaking on April 7, 2005 in the Verkhovna Rada, Prosecutor General Svyatoslav Piskun said that Kolesnikov was detained not in the case of separatism, but in the case of extortion: “On March 25, 2005, the Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine opened a criminal case against the head of the Donetsk Regional Council of People's Deputies Kolesnikov Boris Viktorovich on the grounds of a crime under Part 4 of Article 189 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, namely “Extortion of the transfer of someone else’s property or rights to property by an official using his official position, threat of murder, which caused property damage on an especially large scale.” added that in this moment Kolesnikov is “in the temporary detention center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the city of Kyiv as a suspect.” Kolesnikov’s health condition is satisfactory, the Prosecutor General noted, he was treated several times medical checkup. In addition, the detainee “is guaranteed the right to defense, and from the first minute of detention, lawyers work with him.”

Reference: Former Deputy Prosecutor General Piskun Viktor Shokin, who initiated the case against Kolesnikov, stated that he first learned about Kolesnikov’s case from Piskun, who instructed him to figure out whether the materials that came from the Ministry of Internal Affairs regarding the head of the regional council contained elements of a crime. Shokin handed over the materials to his subordinates, who allegedly discovered a possible crime, which Shokin informed Piskun about.

It was Piskun, according to his former deputy, who then said that it was necessary to initiate a case against Kolesnikov. Shokin also claimed that he had never heard of offers to Kolesnikov to “buy back” his arrest, and he did not discuss this issue with either the then head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Yuriy Lutsenko or the then Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Poroshenko. He told “Today” about this, commenting on the information that in 2005 he, together with Poroshenko, proposed to the then Prosecutor General Svyatoslav Piskun to arrest Boris Kolesnikov and the brother of businessman Renat Akhmetov Igor and thus “earn” two billion dollars.

According to Shokin, Piskun was fully aware of the “Kolesnikov case.” “If I did something wrong, why didn’t Piskun, having all the powers of the prosecutor general, drop the case?” he noted.

As is known, then the media wrote that Piskun also testified to the GPU in the “Kolesnikov case” and during interrogation allegedly said that shortly before Kolesnikov’s arrest, Poroshenko came to him and allegedly stated that he knew “how to earn 2 billion dollars.” . It is necessary, they say, to arrest Kolesnikov and brother Akhmetov, “then Rinat will give everything for the two of them.” Piskun, he said, refused. After which Poroshenko allegedly said: “Well then, we will go to your deputy Shokin.”

Upon leaving the pre-trial detention center in August 2005, Boris Kolesnikov promised to put behind bars the “orange” ones who set the law enforcement officers against him (first of all, ex-head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Yuriy Lutsenko). In 2010, Yuriy Lutsenko was put away in the same Lukyanovka pre-trial detention center.

Political persecution

Driver's case

On December 26, 2010, employees of the Prosecutor General and the SBU detained former Minister of Internal Affairs Yuriy Lutsenko. A detachment of 11 fighters from the Alpha unit was used for the capture. The arrest took place near Lutsenko’s house, on Staronavodnitskaya Street in the Pechersky district of Kyiv.

Lutsenko’s arrest was witnessed by his son, who said the following: “My father left the house for a walk with the dog. When he went around the corner of the house, where there are no surveillance cameras, prosecutors and 11 SBU Alpha fighters jumped out of the minibus. Having detained the father, they They put him in a minibus and took him away to where exactly I don’t know.”

On December 13, the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office reported that the Prosecutor General's Office had completed the pre-trial investigation into the criminal case against ex-Minister of Internal Affairs Yuriy Lutsenko and Interior Ministry employee Leonid Pristuplyuk.

Yuriy Lutsenko was finally charged with committing crimes under Part 5 of Art. 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (seizure of state property on an especially large scale through abuse of official position, by prior conspiracy by a group of persons) and Part 3 of Article 365 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (exceeding official authority, resulting in grave consequences).

Leonid Pristuplyuk has been charged with committing crimes under Part 3 of Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (seizure of state property on an especially large scale through abuse of official position, by prior conspiracy by a group of persons) and Part 3 of Article 358 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (use of a deliberately forged document ).

“I can say that there are still a lot of interesting points that we will have to sort out... What was put to Yuri Vitalievich (Lutsenko), and he is offended that he has Article 191 Part 3 (of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), then this is not a complete list of those articles that await you in the future,” noted the head of the main investigative department of the General Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine, Alexander Kalifitsky, and added that there are many additional nuances in the case of the driver Yu. Lutsenko. According to him, the driver Yu. Lutsenko “had a fake diploma.” In addition, according to the investigator, Yu. Lutsenko “decided to buy an apartment for his friend.”

“He (Yu. Lutsenko), again by his order, enters the relevant data and provides the right to receive an apartment, and without a queue. Without any motivation... The driver was not satisfied with this apartment, since it was located on Sosnitsky Street. It was inconvenient to get to work, and he asked Yuri Vitalievich: “is it possible to get it in the center.” Why not, he got it on Dmitrievskaya Street,” noted A. Kalifitsky.

On December 14, 2010, during a press conference at UNIAN, Lutsenko said that the authorities brought “absurd accusations” against him in order to intimidate others opposition politicians. He called the final charges brought the day before for committing crimes under Part 5 of Art. “legal insanity.” 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and Part 3 of Art. 365 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The ex-minister recalled that 41 days ago he was summoned to the Prosecutor General's Office as a witness, and on the same day his status was changed to that of an accused. According to him, investigators claim that the conspiracy took place in November 2005 so that in 2009 the driver’s length of service would be incorrectly calculated and that he would receive an extra 2 thousand UAH in his salary, and then severance pay. Lutsenko noted that all the investigators’ evidence is based on the testimony of Ministry of Internal Affairs employees regarding the existence of his alleged oral instructions about such registration of the driver’s documents and a photocopy of one document signed by him. The ex-minister emphasized that he could not sign a single document without visas from the heads of a number of departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Lutsenko also noted that a group of 11 investigators on particularly important cases worked on this, in his words, “extremely resonant case for the General Prosecutor’s Office” for forty days. He recalled that the articles of the Criminal Code under which he was charged provide for up to 12 years in prison. Most main goal The charges brought against him, according to Lutsenko, are preventing opposition politicians from participating in parliamentary elections.

Verdict of the Kyiv Court of Appeal

On May 16, 2012, the Kyiv Court of Appeal upheld the verdict of the Pechersky District Court handed down to ex-Minister of Internal Affairs Yuriy Lutsenko and his driver Leonid Pristuplyuk. The court decided to leave the appeal of lawyers Lutsenko and Pristuplyuk without satisfaction. The presiding judge at the meeting, Ivan Rybak, read only the operative part of the court's decision.

Pre-trial detention center

On April 22, 2011, after the court extended Lutsenko’s arrest until May 27, he went on a hunger strike. Lutsenko said that he was going to fast for as long as his body could bear it.

Since May 1, 2011, employees of the Lukyanovsky detention center have been force-feeding Yuriy Lutsenko. In addition, after the start of the hunger strike, different doctors began to visit the prisoner every day, in particular a speech therapist who wanted to correct the ex-minister’s pronunciation. This was stated by Lutsenko’s wife Irina, who visited her husband in the pre-trial detention center.

According to her, force-feeding is nothing more than torture, and the statements of the Prosecutor General's Office that he eats food voluntarily are a lie.

Lutsenko’s wife recounted from his words that for force feeding, “a white liquid that stinks a meter away” is used, which for some reason the Prosecutor General’s Office in its reports calls a “nutritious high-calorie mixture.”

The wife also noted that during his stay in the pre-trial detention center, Lutsenko lost 14 kg of weight, and as a result of starvation, his health condition deteriorated significantly: the pressure began to “jump” from 90 to 40 to 130 to 110, and in addition, Lutsenko’s blood is now very high acetone content, which happens in fasting people on the eighth day of this procedure.

On July 19, 2011, after announcing a break in the court hearing, Yuriy Lutsenko announced preliminary confirmation of the diagnosis of hepatitis. “Preliminary diagnoses are confirmed, and the likelihood of hepatitis is also stated,” he said.

According to the ex-minister, he needs soon take another in-depth blood test. “The body is not working. There are problems with the pancreas and liver. Accordingly, I started taking medications and trying to somehow maintain nutrition,” he said.

“Honestly, getting such a disease after six months in a cell is an unexpected nuisance for me. It’s one of the worst things you can find in prison,” he said.

At the same time, Lutsenko’s wife Irina told reporters that her husband also has kidney problems, and the doctors’ forecasts are disappointing. She said that she would personally take blood from her husband for an in-depth blood test

The ex-minister’s wife also added that her husband is in very poor physical condition, is losing weight, feels completely exhausted, and swollen veins appear all over his body, which causes even more pain. great pain. “Yura sleeps 12-14 hours a day, which is not typical for him. He is not even able to hold books in his hands to read. Completely exhausted, in terrible pain, he remains in a cold cell, he is not even transferred to the medical unit!”, - Irina Lutsenko emphasized.

Information about Lutsenko’s deteriorating health appeared after the politician ended his hunger strike. Doctors from the Ministry of Health diagnosed him with liver cirrhosis.

“Today, Mr. Lutsenko’s condition is of serious concern” - Karpacheva, September 16, 2011

On September 19, 2011, the court rejected the request of the defense of the former Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko to issue a ruling on his treatment in a hospital. Judge Sergei Vovk announced this during the court hearing

Yushchenko poisoning case

On August 17, 2012, Yuriy Lutsenko received a second sentence. Already sentenced to 4 years, he received another two years of restriction of freedom, having been found guilty of negligence in the conduct of the poisoning case of Viktor Yushchenko.

Lutsenko was found guilty of negligence in the performance of his duties job responsibilities: he violated procedural rules when extending operational search actions against Valentin Davidenko, the driver of the former deputy head of the Security Council of Ukraine Vladimir Satsyuk. Davidenko was involved in the case of the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko in 2004. Lutsenko was sentenced to two years of restricted freedom.

Many questions remain: the prosecution line for each episode is lame, and the violations in trial, and overt political subtext. Exactly at the appointed time, judge of the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv Anna Medushevskaya entered the hall. The verdict was announced in an original manner - she read the verdict quickly and in a whisper, without reacting at all to requests to increase the volume.

Those who came to the verdict European diplomats They silently propped up the wall of the meeting room - the benches were taken out in anticipation of a large crowd of public, but this did not help either, there was not enough space for everyone. There is nothing to breathe in the hall. The diplomats' interpreters are silent - Medushevskaya's whisper at the end of the room cannot be heard at all. They, too, can only look at the backs of the television cameramen who were allowed into this process for the first time.

Immediately after the announcement, prosecutor Klimenko reported: there is no longer any reason for the ex-minister to remain in the Kiev pre-trial detention center; he will soon be transferred to a colony.

Lutsenko accepted the future transfer without unnecessary tragedy. He says that most of all he doesn’t want them to overdo it with security, isolating him even more and depriving him of basic walks

Pardon

Having considered the petition for pardon of persons convicted by the courts of Ukraine, the proposals of the Commission on Pardons and taking into account the severity of the crimes committed, the period of actual serving of the sentence, the identity of the convicts, their state of health, behavior and attitude to work before committing the crime and after conviction, compensation for damage caused, opinion of penitentiary bodies and institutions executive power And local government on the advisability of pardon and other circumstances, in accordance with paragraph 27 of Article 106 of the Constitution of Ukraine, I decide to pardon:

3. Yuri Vitalievich Lutsenko, born in 1964, convicted by the verdict of the Pechersky District Court of Kiev on August 17, 2012, - to be released from further serving the main sentence.

The decree was promulgated on April 7, 2013, on Annunciation Day, on the day of the opposition rally “Rise up, Ukraine!” in Kyiv.

Why were they imprisoned?

The former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Yuriy Lutsenko, was imprisoned, and this became punishment for the Maidan. Yuriy Lutsenko spoke about this in an interview with Focus with reference to phone conversation politician friend. He also voiced three more reasons - punishment for unconventional business practices, rejection of the practice of “offset” of incriminating evidence, revenge for harsh personal criticism and refusal to move away from Tymoshenko.

“There are other reasons, but these are the main ones,” says Yuriy Lutsenko. He also did not confirm the information that Boris Kolesnikov was involved in his detention. “The president made the decision. And the fact that his entourage was happy is no secret,” said Yu. Lutsenko.

New political dossier

Third Ukrainian Republic

After his release, Yuriy Lutsenko spoke about the further action plan for the creation of a third Ukrainian republic. The ex-minister wrote the main points for further actions on his Facebook page.

“The plan is this: first, during the round tables we are writing a Program for the third Ukrainian republic (values, goals, plans for specific transformations), which should offer society a break with the post-communist swamp of the current parody of Ukraine. Secondly, we work with people all over Ukraine, uniting those who share the program into a supra-party movement new Ukraine and understands what to throw off ruling mafia It will have to be not only by voting, but also by peaceful mass uprising. Third, for the sake of common victory, we are trying to ensure that opposition presidential candidates come to an agreed upon candidate, support this program and announce a common team of its implementers,” the message said.

Yuriy Lutsenko said that the maximum program in this scenario is the victory of a united Ukrainian democracy in 2015. Minimum program - access to political arena after 2015, a new wave of politicians over the age of thirty who understand the responsibility that falls on their shoulders.

According to Yuriy Lutsenko, the idea of a Third Ukrainian Republic is not his; it has been expressed since 1993. This is the password for those who strive to live in a normal country. We will agitate like-minded people. Fortunately, today, in addition to rallies, there are many other communication options,” the politician noted.

All our work until the end of this year (2013 - ed.) will cost $100 thousand. We have this money. Where? We contacted the organizing group,” says Yuriy Lutsenko.

I meet with Petro Poroshenko as often as with Arseniy Yatsenyuk or Vitali Klitschko. And I communicate with him as a competent politician, but not as a money bag. Yes, we received four proposals from well-known sponsors of political processes in Ukraine. We thanked everyone, but at this stage money is not needed. When you need serious funds, you will need to take into account the lesson of the “orange” mistakes. You can take money from sponsors, but not with the promise of a roof, but with a guarantee of an end to lawlessness in the economy. Another lesson of the People's Self-Defense is that money should be taken not from one sponsor, but from the maximum number of minority investors in the process. Then this movement will feel confident. I have no doubt that what is happening in the country today will encourage rich people to invest in the implementation of just such a program to create a development elite instead of an elite of plunder

Lutsenko named the names of the main activists of the movement.

If we talk about the task of ending the Ukrainian-Ukrainian war and creating a comfortable country for all Ukrainian patriots, regardless of what language they love the country in, then I name the candidate philosophical sciences, publicist Sergei Grabovsky, associate professor at NaUKMA Igor Losev, political scientist Taras Voznyak, blogger Roman Shrike, journalist Vakhtang Kipiani. If we talk about a complete reboot of the destroyed law enforcement and judicial system“, then I’m talking about lawyer and employee of the Institute of State and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Nikolai Sir, head of the Ukrainian Law Society Oleg Berezyuk, lawyer Eleonora Shishkina, lawyer Igor Fomin, human rights activist Evgeniy Zakharov,” the politician said.

On the problem of overcoming the feudal-monopoly economy and building a competitive environment, I collaborate with the director of the International Center for Advanced Studies Vladimir Panchenko, people's deputy of the 6th convocation, economist Alexander Bondar, leader public initiative“Ukrainian alternative” by Vladimir Kuhar, President of the Kyiv School of Economics Pavel Sheremet, financier Igor Umansky, economist Andrey Novak. As for the problem of real self-government, the radical transfer of powers and finances to the localities, and the construction of an electronic state, I am talking about legal expert Igor Koliushko, author of basic laws of self-government Anatoly Kravchuk, law professor Viktor Musiyak, political scientist Igor Zhdanov, blogger Konstantin Usov. In the field social reforms“We are still holding consultations, looking for fresh radical ideas,” Lutsenko said.

Bloc of Petro Poroshenko

On August 27, 2014, Yuriy Lutsenko became the head of the Solidarity party. All 122 delegates present at the congress voted for this. Lutsenko was officially nominated for this position by Yuriy Stets, the former leader of Solidarity. Lutsenko, speaking to the participants of the meeting, said that in parliament Azarov’s “coalition of cholera” was replaced by a “coalition of dysentery.” “The paralysis of reforms is the main threat to post-Maidan Ukraine. In such conditions, society is struck by populism,” he said. “We have two fronts - inner front criminal officials and oligarchs, and external – where the children of Genghis Khan are trying to take away the European future of Ukraine,” Lutsenko said. He proposed renaming the Solidarity party to the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, after which the decision was supported unanimously.

Scandals

Divorce from Moroz

In July 2006, Lutsenko condemned the line of SPU leader Alexander Moroz and broke with the party, which entered into a parliamentary coalition with the Party of Regions (PR) and the Communist Party. Being the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the government of the “regions”, Yanukovych was like a bone in the throat for many political opponents. Let's say, for one of the leaders of the Party of Regions, people's deputy Boris Kolesnikov, who spent several months in 2005 in a prison cell under investigation on suspicion of extortion. Or for his influential faction colleague Evgeniy Kushnarev, who was involved in a criminal case on suspicion of separatism. The latter even said that members of the Party of Regions faction voted for Lutsenko’s candidacy for the Yanukovych government, “gritting their teeth and closing their eyes.”

In July 2006, Sergei Vitalievich publicly burned the SPU party card in protest against the socialists joining the anti-crisis coalition.

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Yuriy Lutsenko reluctantly, but still became the Prosecutor General of Ukraine. To do this, it was necessary to write a special law for him, negotiate with parliamentary groups of former regionals for support, and create another split and squabbles in the Rada. However, the result is obvious - Yuri Vitalievich became the third prosecutor general of Petro Poroshenko. The first two - Vitaly Yarema and Viktor Shokin - left with a scandal and a lot of criticism addressed to them. Lutsenko begins his activities with the same thing.

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Engineer from Rivne

Yuri Vitalievich Lutsenko was born in 1964 in the city of Rivne. He studied at the Lviv Polytechnic Institute, at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, graduating in 1989 with a degree in electronic engineering. He served in the army during a break between studies, in 1984-1986.

After graduating from the institute, he returned to his native Rivne and went to work at the local Gazotron plant, where he held the position of head of the technical bureau of the workshop, then he was promoted to chief designer. He worked at the company until 1994.

Reluctant Socialist

Already while working at the plant, Yuriy Lutsenko was involved in politics. All thanks to Father Lutsenko Vitaly Ivanovich, who, holding various leadership positions, was repeatedly elected as a deputy of the Rivne city and regional councils, from November 1990 to September 1991 was the first secretary of the Rivne regional committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, and in 1993, after the resumption of the activities of the Communist Party of Ukraine, again headed the regional committee and became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

In 1991, Yuriy Lutsenko became a member of the Socialist Party of Ukraine. Why in SPU? Yes, because after Ukraine gained independence, the activities of the Communist Party, which Yuri Vitalievich would probably have joined, were banned, and his father was forced to live in the SPU for the first two years of independence.

In March 1994, Yuri Lutsenko's father was elected as a people's deputy of Ukraine. From that moment on, the active growth of his son’s political career began.

In 1994, Yuri Vitalievich held the post of chairman of the Rivne Regional Council of People's Deputies. Since 1996, he has already been the head of the economics committee of the Rivne regional administration.

Revolutionary

His father’s connections allowed 32-year-old Lutsenko to become secretary of the political council of the Socialist Party of Ukraine in 1996. In 1997, the rising politician was taken into the Cabinet of Ministers Valery Pustovoitenko as Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Vladimir Seminozhenko. In the summer, Semynozhenko became deputy prime minister, and Lutsenko worked with the new minister Stanislav Dovgy for less than a month and became an assistant to Prime Minister Valery Pustovoitenko. Later in his memoirs, Pustovoitenko recognizes Lutsenko as the most best minister internal affairs in the history of the country. But this will happen after the revolution, and at the end of the 90s Yuri Vitalievich leaves the government to focus on party work.

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The fact is that since the late 90s, Lutsenko began to take part in the fight against the Kuchma regime. Doing this under the banner of the popular SPU at that time was promising. By 1999, Yuriy Lutsenko acquired heavy weight in the SPU, becomes an assistant-consultant to the party leader Alexander Moroz, a former people's deputy.

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It is believed that Lutsenko led the “right wing” of the Socialist Party, advocating cooperation with the non-communist opposition to Kuchma, as opposed to Joseph Vinsky, who advocated support for the Communist Party of Ukraine. Alexander Moroz was recorded in moderate left wing socialists.

At the end of 2000, the disparate Ukrainian opposition found time to unite in the “Ukraine without Kuchma” campaign. At that time, Lutsenko was considered one of the leaders of the opposition, actively worked “in the fields,” held rallies and even took part in clashes with the police.

In 2002, a prominent revolutionary was elected as a people's deputy, joined the SPU faction, became secretary of the political council, and a member of the political executive committee of the SPU. Once, while being a deputy, Yuriy Lutsenko, right in the session hall, gave Leonid Kuchma a symbol of imprisonment - straw bast shoes - after which Kuchma stopped attending meetings of the Rada. It is even more interesting that 10 years later, in 2013, Kuchma and Lutsenko met in Yalta at the YES conference, organized by Kuchma’s son-in-law Viktor Pinchuk, shook hands, and Alexander Moroz captured this moment in a photo, signing the photo: “Friends have met!” By that time, Moroz and Lutsenko hated each other.

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From the street to the Ministry of Internal Affairs

During the Orange Revolution, Lutsenko and Moroz supported Viktor Yushchenko. He organized actions of civil disobedience in Kyiv; Yuri Vitalievich could be seen on the stage of the Maidan, surrounded by “any friends” of Yushchenko. After the change of power, the SPU in the Verkhovna Rada received unprecedented privileges, playing between Yushchenko and Tymoshchenko. For example, the Socialist Party for supporting the candidacy of Yulia Vladimirovna premiership received the post of head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in her government. In February 2005, it was taken over by Yuriy Lutsenko.

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Lutsenko became the first civilian head of this security agency in the history of Ukraine, and was able to hold out in the chair under three prime ministers. Immediately after his appointment, Lutsenko said that the Ministry of Internal Affairs was expecting personnel purges, with the help of which he hoped to clear his department of “Kuchma’s people.” Lutsenko also introduced the passing of standards for physical training senior command staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as the practice of publicly “inviting” witnesses and suspects to a “conversation.” Under policeman Lutsenko, General of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Alexei Pukach fled abroad, shot himself (according to official version consequences) former manager Ministry of Internal Affairs Yuriy Kravchenko and Minister of Transport and Communications of Ukraine Georgy Kirpa. Later, Lutsenko admitted that the practice of public invitations should be stopped, although it gave the desired result.

The investigation into the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko was never completed. Lutsenko referred to the ineffectiveness and direct sabotage of the investigation of “high-profile” criminal cases by the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine. And the prosecutor general in 2005 was the odious Svyatoslav Piskun. Lutsenko’s relationship with him did not work out so well that Yuri Vitalievich even warned Yushchenko that Piskun was dangerous in the position of Prosecutor General of Ukraine.

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In the spring of 2005, Lutsenko authorized the arrest of the ex-head of Donetsk region, one of the leaders of the Party of Regions Boris Kolesnikov. He was accused of extortion, but after three months in the pre-trial detention center he was released.

In the summer of 2005, Lutsenko tried to summon Donetsk oligarch Rinat Akhmetov to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in connection with an investigation into the latter’s criminal past. However, the businessman did not appear for questioning, getting off with written explanations from his lawyers. In September of the same year, the Ministry of Internal Affairs officially recognized that Akhmetov was clean before the law.

In 2006, during the parliamentary election campaign, Lutsenko initiated the reopening of the case to clear the criminal record of the leader of the Party of Regions, Yanukovych. However, fate played with Lutsenko cruel joke and in the second half of the year, Yuri Vitalievich worked under the leadership of... Yanukovych.

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In July 2006, during a protracted political crisis in Ukraine, Lutsenko left the ranks of the SPU because of Moroz’s decision to defect to the coalition of the Party of Regions and the Communist Party of Ukraine. Lutsenko publicly stated that he would not work in the cabinet headed by Yanukovych. “I cannot allow an entry to appear in my work book: a member of Yanukovych’s cabinet. I do not have hatred for him personally, but there is a lack of perception of the political and moral values that this team carries,” said the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. However, two weeks later the Rada approved the composition of the new government headed by the leader of the Party of Regions, and Lutsenko entered the cabinet in his previous position - as head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

Further more. In October 2006, several Ukrainian ministers who entered the government under the quota of Yushchenko's Our Ukraine party announced their intention to resign. Party leader Roman Bessmertny said that in will resign and Lutsenko. However, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs denied his words, adding that he was not going to support the “orange” ministers.

But on December 1, 2006, Lutsenko was dismissed from his post. He was replaced by former party member Vasily Tsushko. Lutsenko himself was sheltered by Viktor Yushchenko, appointing him as an adviser.

Corrupt?

Having achieved the dismissal of the hated minister, Yanukovych’s entourage launched a counterattack. Back on November 2, 2006, a temporary investigative commission was created in the Verkhovna Rada to verify facts of corruption and abuse of official position in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. On November 20, 2006, the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv, having examined two protocols presented by the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine, recognized the presence of corruption in the actions of Yuriy Lutsenko, while at the same time stating the absence of selfish motives.

On February 23, 2007, Tsushko accused Lutsenko of misusing budget funds (500 million hryvnia) during his time as minister. In March, the Prosecutor General's Office opened a criminal case, accusing Lutsenko of abuse of office: Lutsenko was accused of illegally issuing 51 units firearms. On March 20, 2007, a search was carried out in the office that Lutsenko rented, during which the police found three bags with explosives and weapons. The next day it became known that the Podolsk District Court of Kyiv suspended the GPU investigation into the case against Lutsenko.

In July 2007, media reports that Lutsenko, as head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, lobbied for the interests of the Ukrainian New Telecommunications enterprise, became the reason for the launch of an internal audit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to some reports, this is an intermediary company in which Lutsenko’s wife worked financial director, was supposed to become a service provider of the mobile operator UMC for all employees of the internal affairs bodies of Ukraine. Former minister and representatives of the Ukrainian New Telecommunications company denied reports of lobbying for the company's interests.

However, under President Yushchenko, opponents were unable to reach Lutsenko; in the wake of many scandals, he still could not drown.

Participant in drunken brawl

In 2007, Yuri Vitalievich actively developed his new political project. He left the SPU with a scandal; Our Ukraine was rapidly losing its ratings. The ex-minister created the People's Self-Defense movement, which set as its main goal the dissolution of parliament and the resignation of the government. In the spring of 2007, Lutsenko planned to organize a large-scale action throughout the country - the “March of Justice” to Kyiv. He initially considered the pro-presidential People's Union "Our Ukraine" and the "Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc" to be his allies.

Yushchenko dissolved Verkhovna Rada, the “democrats” won the early elections, and Lutsenko returned to the post of Minister of Internal Affairs in Tymoshenko’s government, “to clean up what he didn’t finish, to crush those he didn’t crush.” In reality, it turned out differently, even more scandalous than during the first run.

On January 18, 2008, after a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council, a scuffle occurred between Lutsenko and the mayor of Kyiv Leonid Chernovetsky, during which, according to Lutsenko, he slapped Chernovetsky in the face with an open palm after he hit him in the shin with his toe. Chernovetsky, in turn, accused Lutsenko of causing him bodily harm without cause.

In May 2009, Lutsenko and his 19-year-old son became involved in another scandal. It was reported that they were detained by police at Frankfurt am Main airport after causing trouble while trying to board a plane while intoxicated.

That same month, Lutsenko resigned as Ukraine's Minister of Internal Affairs, asking the Verkhovna Rada to consider the issue in his absence. During the event official investigation he was removed from office. However, a few days later, Lutsenko resumed his duties - the Cabinet of Ministers did not find documentary evidence of the minister’s misconduct.

In prison

After Yanukovych’s victory in the presidential elections and the reformatting of the coalition in the Verkhovna Rada, Lutsenko’s further stay in the Ministry of Internal Affairs was out of the question. He was fired, but this was not the worst that awaited the ex-minister. The coalition of the so-called carcasses was ready even before the elections. In January, she fired Lutsenko because the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs “violated Ukrainian election legislation by interfering in electoral process during the last presidential elections." Tymoshenko's attempt to leave Lutsenko in the Ministry of Internal Affairs as a deputy minister was with my last breath and soon Yanukovych stopped all this.

On November 9, 2010, the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine opened a criminal case against the former Minister of Internal Affairs and ordered him not to leave. Lutsenko was suspected of appropriating state property on an especially large scale through abuse of official position by prior conspiracy by a group of persons, as well as abuse of official powers.

In December 2010, Lutsenko was detained by SBU officers on suspicion of delaying familiarization with the materials of the criminal case, failure to appear for interrogations, and also preparing to escape abroad. The next day, the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv sentenced him to arrest for a period of two months. Lutsenko was placed in the Lukyanovka pre-trial detention center. Later, the Kyiv Court of Appeal extended the arrest period to 5 months. After this decision, Lutsenko went on a hunger strike.

On February 27, 2012, by decision of the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv, Lutsenko received 4 years in prison with confiscation of all personal property. On July 3, 2012, the European Court of Human Rights declared Lutsenko’s arrest illegal at the trial stage, and also recognized his arrest as directly politically motivated.

Lutsenko stayed in the Menskaya colony until April 2013. Under pressure from the West and against the background of the preparation of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU, Yanukovych pardoned the ex-minister.

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Revolutionary again

Lutsenko left prison on time. In the fall of 2013, a second revolution broke out in the country, and Yuri Vitalievich became an active participant. In prison, he read a lot and was released with the image of an intellectual. The former enthusiasm and fiery speeches gave way to measured reasoning, quotes from great people, and careful maneuvering between the opposition troika of Yatsenyuk, Klitschko and Tyagnibok. At Euromaidan, Lutsenko tried to position himself not as a politician, but as a civil activist. Although it was not without his usual scandals. Thus, in January 2014, Berkut beat Lutsenko near the Svyatoshinsky District Department of Internal Affairs.

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After his release, Lutsenko founded the Third Ukrainian republic"However, at the height of the 2014 presidential campaign, he actively campaigned for Petro Poroshenko. "All Ukrainians must unite, as they did on the Maidan, and vote for Petro Poroshenko on May 25. This is a man of word and deed, this is a man who can unite all of Ukraine around the idea of living in a new way,” Lutsenko said.

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As a result, Poroshenko won the elections, became president, and Lutsenko instructed to cook new batch for parliamentary elections. In the fall of 2014, the BPP, led by Yuri Vitalievich, formed the largest faction in parliament, around which a new coalition was built. Lutsenko himself headed the parliamentary faction of the BPP. He has remained in this position until now, although at one time he almost resigned from his position after a scandal at a faction meeting.

Godfather Poroshenko and Stetsya

Yuriy Lutsenko is the godfather of President Petro Poroshenko and Minister of Information Yuriy Stets. Yuriy Lutsenko and Petro Poroshenko’s wife Marina christened their daughter Stets Eva in 2013. As Stets himself stated, he postponed the sacrament of baptism for his youngest daughter for a year and a half until the future godfather was released from prison. “Viktor Fedorovich actually released Lutsenko for a different reason. I called him and said: “Viktor Fedorovich, you understand, the child is already 1.5 years old, but he has not been baptized. We need to let Yura go so that he can baptize Eva.” He says: “Oh, well, I understand, okay.” So, he released him,” Stets said.

Lutsenko is now one of the president’s closest associates. This is evidenced by the lengths to which Poroshenko went to secure the position of Prosecutor General for Lutsenko. Here the president needs the most trusted people.

Poor prosecutor general in a rich family

The Lutsenko family (wife Irina is a people’s deputy from the BPP) is far from poor. Before being elected as a deputy in 2012, Irina was engaged in business. Family for a long time hid which one, but journalists still found out - she was the financial director at the Ukrainian New Telecommunications company. This company was at one time involved in a scandal related to the purchase of communication services by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (from the time of Yuri Lutsenko).

In 2012, Irina Lutsenko declared 22.4 million in income. “I sold my telecommunications company. And I gave two smaller businesses to my son,” Irina Lutsenko explained her millions. The eldest son's income was 5.3 million.

In 2015, the Lutsenko family earned almost 3 million UAH. Yuriy Lutsenko himself declared only UAH 76.4 thousand in income in 2015. The head of the BPP faction owns two apartments with an area of 21.7 and 181 square meters. The Lutsenko family owns a land plot of 0.08 hectares and a residential building of 203.9 square meters; marked "rent" are indicated land plot 0.25 hectares and a residential building of 859 square meters. The Lutsenko family also owns two apartments - 181 and 92.2 square meters and a dacha with 43.44 square meters. For rent - garage (35 sq. m.) and "other real estate" (316.8 sq. m.).

In addition, according to the declaration, Lutsenko spent 37 thousand UAH on renting a 2012 Toyota Camry. There are 167.8 thousand UAH in his bank accounts. In addition to last year’s 2014 Mercedes-Benz GL550, the family’s fleet now includes a 2014 BMW X5.

Sergey Zviglyanich