Yuriy Ivanyushchenko

Yuriy Volodymyrovych Ivanyushchenko (Ukrainian: Юрій Володимирович Іванющенко; born on 21 February 1959), is a Ukrainian politician, economist, and businessman, who is a former member of parliament, a People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, of the VI and VII convocations, as a member of the Party of Regions, since November 2007.

Volodymyr Ivanyuschenko was born on 21 February 1959 in Yenakiieve, Stalin Oblast.

In 1961, the region was renamed to Donetsk Oblast.

From 1974 1978, he studied at the Yenakiieve Mining College.

From 1978 to 1980, he served in the Soviet Army.

From 1981 to 1996, he was a foreman of an electric workshop, a senior foreman, a deputy head of a workshop, a deputy chief power engineer, a deputy director for economics of the Yenakiyevo Coke-Chemical Plant, which he acquired in the early 1990s.

Between 1996 and 2005, he was the director of economics and then promoted as president of Alvi-Invest.

At the time of the election, as President of UGK-2000 LLC, he was a non-partisan.

He was a non-partisan politician at the time of that election, when he was the President of UGK-2000 LLC.

He also appeared at the parliament very rarely.

Between 2003 and 2007 he studied at the Berdyansk University of Economics and Management, specialty: accounting and auditing, qualification: bachelor.

Between 2005 and September 2007 he was the president of UGK-2000 LLC.

In March 2006, Ivanyushchenko was a candidate for People's Deputies of Ukraine in the Verkhovna Rada from the Revival Party, No. 14 on the list.

He, as member of parliament, is also a member of the Committee on Fuel and Energy, Nuclear Policy and Nuclear Safety, since 2007.

At the end of 2007, he graduated from Berdyansk University of Economics and Management.

According to the Ukrainian magazine "Correspondent", in 2011, he took 2nd place in the top 100 most influential Ukrainians.

According to the Ukrainian magazine Focus, in 2012, he took 26th place in the list of 200 most influential people in Ukraine, as his fortune was estimated at $756 million, and in 2013, he moved to 24th place in the same ranking of the same magazine.

From December 2007 to 12 December 2012, Ivanyushchenko was the member of parliament as the People's Deputy of Ukraine of the Verkhovna Rada of the 6th convocation from the Party of Regions (No. 111 in the electoral list).

On 12 December 2012, Ivanyushchenko was reelected as the People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VII convocation from the Party of Regions, (No. 24 in the electoral list).

Yuriy Boldyrev explained his inclusion in the checkpoint of the party list of the People's Deputy from the Party of Regions by the fact that Ivanyushchenko is a sponsor of the party.

On 25 March 2013, according to the Express newspaper, he was "leading" in the list of absentee deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 7th convocation, being present at only one of the seven sittings of the parliament.

In July 2013, Ivanyushchenko was awarded the title of "honorary citizen of the city of Yenakiyevo" for "significant contribution to the spiritual and literary development of the city of Yenakiyevo, active social activity."

He was sponsored by the amateur football club "Slavkhleb".

According to Ukrainian media, Ivanyushchenko is a well-known criminal authority nicknamed "Yura Yenakiyevsky."

He was also a close associate of President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych.

He disappeared from the sight of law enforcement officers on 15 December 2014.

The Minsister of Internal Affairs, Arsen Avakov said Ivanyushchenko organized and funded "aunts" who abducted, beat and killed Euromaidan activists in February 2014.

At the end of January 2015, Ivanyushchenko was put on the wanted list by the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

The Prosecutor General's Office suspects him of organizing the embezzlement of someone else's property and illegal enrichment on an especially large scale under the following articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:

In January 2015, a Ukrainian court seized more than 72 million Swiss francs in Ivanyushchenko's due money in his Swiss bank accounts.

The Prosecutor General's Office seized his accounts in Ukrainian banks and the fleet, and requests for international legal assistance were sent to Latvia, Monaco and Switzerland to seize funds abroad.

Verkhovna Rada deputy Oleh Nedava, who defends Ivanyushchenko's interests, stated that the persecution of Ivanyushchenko was illegal, despite the fact that the investigation had evidence of his involvement in a number of crimes.

On 2 December 2016, the Kyiv Court of Appeals ruled that MP from the BPP Serhiy Leshchenko should refute his statements about the former deputy from the Party of Regions, Ivanyushchenko, whom he accused of involvement in the murders of Euromaidan activists.

The Kyiv Court of Appeals decided on January 1 this year to uphold the decision of the investigating judge of the Pechersk District Court of November 25, 2016, which overturned the petition of the senior investigator against Ivanyushchenko and left unsatisfied the appeal of prosecutor Panchishin.

On 30 November 2016, the Kyiv Court of Appeals ruled to satisfy Ivanyushchenko's claim against Leshchenko for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation.

However, in 2017, the Kyiv Court of Appeals considered the complaint of the Ivanyushchenko's lawyers, and found the statements of the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Serhiy Leshchenko, voiced in the live broadcast of the Shuster Live program as unreliable, obliging him to refute the slanderous insinuations about Ivanyushchenko's involvement in the delivery of titushki to the time of Euromaidan, as well as theft in the state corporation "Ukrspirt".

Claims of Ivanyushchenko to the editor-in-chief of the portal "Censor. NO" to Yuri Butusov on the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation were satisfied by the court on 18 January 2017.

On 26 January 2017, the court ruled to uphold the decision of the Solomyansky District Court of 27 January 2016, which made a positive decision on the case of the inaction of the Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Stolyarchuk at the stage of pre-trial investigation.

The latest decision of the collegium of the Supreme Court is not subject to appeal.

On January 27, 2017, the judicial board of the Chamber of the Supreme Court for Criminal Cases of Ukraine ruled to satisfy the complaint of Ivanyushchenko on charges of the Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine of inaction at the stage of pre-trial investigation.