Lutsenko biography

Former Prosecutor General of Ukraine on May 12-August 29, ex-head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, deputy of the 4th, 6th, 8th convocations Yuri Vitalievich Lutsenko was born on December 14 in the city of Rivne in the west of the country, in the family of a party worker. In the year he graduated from the faculty of electronic equipment of the Lviv Polytechnic Institute with a degree in an engineer of electronic equipment.

In the break between study, he served in the army in the regiment of government communications. In the period from for the year he worked at the Rivne plant "Badotron", where he rose to the chief designer. Lutsenko’s political career began in the year when his father introduced him to Alexander Moroz, the leader of the Socialist Party. In the 90s he worked in various positions in the Rivne region.

Together with Moroz, he participated in the publication of the content of audio recordings Nikolai Melnichenko, on which the President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, acting at that time, allegedly ordered the murder of opposition journalist Georgy Gongadze, and since December became the co -chair of the Ukrainian Promotion without Kuchma. The protests were firmly suppressed by the police and special forces.

In May, Lutsenko was elected to Verkhovna Rada, where he became a member of the Committee on Construction, Transport and Communications. Immediately after the deputy in June, Lutsenko during the speech of President Leonid Kuchma in parliament with an annual message handed his woven bast shoes with the words: “On the path to Europe”. During the “Orange Revolution”, the socialist party Alexander Moroz supported Viktor Yushchenko, and Lutsenko as a “field commander” with experience became the commandant of the tent town.

This not only allocated him from the total mass of leaders of protest shares, but also significantly brought him closer to the leadership of “our Ukraine” - including Peter Poroshenko. After the victory of Yushchenko, the forces supporting him received quotas in the new government. The post of head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs received it was Lutsenko, who had neither a legal education nor the experience of law enforcement.

Declaring himself a “political terminator”, he announced his intention to put all corrupt officials in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

However, the “Terminator” never completed many resonant affairs, including Yushchenko’s poisoning. In the year, the prosecutor’s office opened a criminal case against him on charges of abuse of powers and embezzlement of budget funds. In the year, by the decision of the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv, he was sentenced to 4 years in prison with confiscation of all personal property.

However, in April of the year, President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych signed a decree “On the pardon of convicts”, including Lutsenko. He took an active part in the coup in Kyiv in the year, subsequently calling on to the power method of resolving the situation in the Donbass. After the final victory of the Maidan, the court finally rehabilitated Yuri Lutsenko as a political prisoner.

Before that, on the same day, the Verkhovna Rada made amendments to the legislation, allowing to appoint persons without legal education and work experience, and immediately published the adopted law in the special issue of the parliamentary “vote of Ukraine”. As the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, he is known for the confrontation and mutual charges with the National Anti -Corruption Bureau of Ukraine.

Married, has two sons. The position was taken by Ruslan Ryaboshapka.