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Andrii Derkach was born on 19 August, 1967 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Dnipro, Ukraine), is a Ukrainian politician and businessman (born 1967). Discover Andrii Derkach's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 56 years old?

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Occupation Businessman, politician
Age 56 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 19 August 1967
Birthday 19 August
Birthplace Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Dnipro, Ukraine)
Nationality Ukraine

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1967

Andrii Leonidovych Derkach (Андрій Леонідович Деркач; born 19 August 1967) is a Russian and former Ukrainian politician and businessman who had been a member of the Verkhovna Rada from 1998 to January 2020, serving seven terms, with several parties.

and was stripped of Ukrainian citizenship.

Derkach was born on 19 August 1967 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, the son of KGB officer Leonid Derkach, who headed the State Customs Committee and later the Security Service of Ukraine intelligence agency from 1998 to 2003.

1989

Derkach attended the Kharkiv Higher Military Command Engineering School, graduating in 1989.

In 1989 and 1990, he served in the Strategic Missile Force at the technical missile base of the Pervomaysk division; this division was under the command of the Strategic Missile Force.

1993

In 1993, he graduated with a Ph.D. in law from the Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the KGB, (later renamed the FSB Academy), with a thesis titled "Organizing and Holding Meetings with Secret Agents".

In 1993, after graduation from the FSB Academy, Derkach worked as Security Officer at the Office of Security Service of Ukraine in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (province).

1994

The Derkach family was very close to Leonid Kuchma who worked side by side with Leonid Derkach producing Satan rockets at the Yuzhmash factory, and, after Kuchma became president of Ukraine in 1994, the Derkachs gained political positions through their relationships with Kuchma.

The Derkachs are part of the Dnipr Clan known as the Derkach group which maintains very close relationships with Oleg Deripaska, Mikhail Fridman's Moscow based Alfa Group and Petr Aven's Alfa-Bank.

From 1994 to 1996, he served as deputy director of the Control Service of the President of Ukraine.

1996

From 1996 to 1997 he was Advisor to the President of Ukraine on Foreign Economic Affairs.

1997

In 1997 and 1998 he was First Assistant to the Prime Minister of Ukraine.

1998

Derkach has been a member of the Ukrainian Parliament from 1998 until 2020.

He was first elected in the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election in District 159 (at the same time he ran for Laborious Ukraine Electoral Bloc which did not win any seats).

2001

Derkach was fired in 2001 for his alleged involvement in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze.

2003

Ihor Smeshko, the head of Ukraine's SBU (Служба безпеки України (СБУ)) from 2003 to 2005 who replaced Leonid Derkach, maintained a close relationship with the FBI and kept close watch on the Derkachs.

In 2003, both Andrii and Leonid Derkach were implicated in numerous illegal weapons transfers to the Balkans, Asia and Africa including to Iraq, the Taliban, al-Qaeda, al-Shabaab, and Liberia.

2004

Radio Era was one of several radio stations, most prominently among them Petro Poroshenko's Channel 5, that provided around-the-clock reporting from Maidan Nezalezhnosti during the Orange Revolution in 2004.

According to anti-corruption watchdog organization Chesno, Derkach and his associates illegally appropriated 42 hectares of protected lands valued at tens of millions of dollars.

Derkach also failed to declare his wife's stake in various of his business enterprises, as he was obliged to do under the Ukrainian law to prevent corruption.

2005

In 2005, the report of an ad hoc committee formed via the Ukrainian parliament, primarily responsible for investigating the murder, concluded that Gongadze's murder had been organized; the primary conspirators remained identified as then-President Kuchma and his Minister of the Interior, in addition to Leonid Derkach, who, according to the committee, had been involved in the crime.

2006

Derkach served as President of the national nuclear generating company Energoatom from 2006 to 2007.

2007

He served as Director General of the State Concern "Ukratomprom" in 2007.

Germany's Federal Agency for Civic Education reported in 2007 that Derkach and his father Leonid led The Derkach Group, one of the regional cross-industry holding companies formed in Ukraine following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The Derkach Group had close ties to the political elite and attempted to influence politics through lobbying, corrupt networks, and illegal appropriations.

Derkach also headed a media company the "Ukrainian Press Group" ("Українська прес-група") consisting of four newspapers, a TV guide, and the website версії.com.

According to Media Ownership Monitor Ukraine, Derkach "de facto owns" television channel TRK Era and Radio Era; officially the owner is his assistant Anton Oleksandrovych Simonenko while Derkach is listed as honorary president of Era-Media and head of the arts council of TRK Еra.

Ownership data of the privately held company is not publicly available.

2010

As of 2010 Derkach often lobbied for Oleg Deripaska's Russia company Rusal (formerly Russkiy alyuminiy) and has had ties to Anatoly Chubais and Chubais' monopolistic electricity supplier, RAO UES.

2011

From 2011 to 2013, he served pro bono as Chief Advisor to then Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov.

Despite no longer having an official role, Derkach remains involved in the management of Energoatom, making strategic decisions alongside Oleg Boyarintsev and Herman Galushchenko.

2013

Derkach was implicated in the government's orchestration of the Euromaidan assault by security forces on peaceful demonstrators in Kyiv on 11 December 2013.

2019

Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani met with Derkach in December 2019.

In 2021, the United States Government accused Derkach of being a "Russian agent" and sanctioned him for interference in the 2020 United States elections, and the Ukrainian government sanctioned him for spreading Russian propaganda.

In June 2022, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said that Derkach received funds from the Russian GRU to create private security companies that Russia planned to use to capture Ukraine, and that Prosecutor General of Ukraine had started a pre-trial investigation into his role.

In November 2023 Ukrainian police and prosecutors accused Derkach of treason.

Both Andrii and his father Leonid Derkach were close with the Kremlin-linked Ukrainian oligarch Vadim Rabinovich, and Crime bosses Semyon Mogilevich, and, Leonid Minin, and Sergei Mikhailov.

Derkach received Russian citizenship with connections to the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.

2020

In August 2020, U.S. counterintelligence chief William Evanina identified Derkach as a key participant in Russian efforts to harm Joe Biden's candidacy in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

United States intelligence community analysis released in March 2021 found that Derkach was among proxies of Russian intelligence who promoted and laundered misleading or unsubstantiated narratives about Biden "to US media organizations, US officials, and prominent US individuals, including some close to former President Trump and his administration."