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Who Was Appointed Deputy Heads of Local Prosecutor’s Offices (Part III)
As expected, the prosecutor’s office ‘renewal’ is happening only in words.
Among the already appointed deputy heads of local prosecutor’s offices you can see former heads of district and city prosecutor’s offices and their deputies; former heads of departments of regional prosecutor’s offices; former rank-and-file prosecutors; privileged prosecutors with influential relatives; corrupt prosecutors; and a very small number of external candidates.
Earlier we already analyzed the results of the selection of local prosecutors and the appointment by Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin of the heads of local prosecutor’s offices. We also already considered those appointed to other administrative positions in the Zakarpattia, Volyn, Vinnytsia, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Chernihiv regions, in the city of Kyiv, and in the Sumy, Rivne, Poltava and Cherkasy regions.
Today we will find out which “valuable personnel” regional prosecutors appointed as first deputies and deputies of the heads of local prosecutor’s offices in the Kirovohrad, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa regions and in certain local prosecutor’s offices of Kyiv, Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions.
Kirovohrad region
Stanislav Sandul was appointed first deputy head of the Kirovohrad local prosecutor’s office. Before the appointment he held the position of deputy prosecutor of the city of Kirovohrad. After the first two stages he was in the distant 13-th place (71/31,7/102,7). The deputies of the head of this local prosecutor’s office are Serhiy Salyuk and Musheg Solomonov. Before the appointment Salyuk held the position of prosecutor of the Oleksandriia district of Kirovohrad region. After the first two stages he was in 11-th place (88/16,7/104,7).
Before the appointment Solomonov held the position of Kirovohrad interdistrict prosecutor for oversight of compliance with environmental laws in Kirovohrad region. After the first two rounds he was in the distant 12-th place (90/13,3/103,7).
Volodymyr Ruban was appointed first deputy head of the Znamianka local prosecutor’s office. Before the appointment he held the position of Svitlovodsk interdistrict prosecutor. After the first two stages he was in the penultimate 15-th place (87/8,3/95,3).
The deputies of the head of this local prosecutor’s office are Liubov Petrenko and Andriy Remez. Previously Petrenko held the position of prosecutor of Kirovohrad district, Kirovohrad region. After the first two stages she was in 4-th place (85/45/130).
Before the appointment Remez held the position of senior prosecutor in one of the departments of the Kirovohrad regional prosecutor’s office. After the first two rounds he was in 1-th place (91/66,7/157,7).
Olena Zaporozhets was appointed first deputy head of the Oleksandriia local prosecutor’s office. Before that she held the position of deputy prosecutor of Oleksandriia district. After the first two stages she was in first place (95/56,7/151,7). The deputies of the head of this local prosecutor’s office are Anton Kliukin and Roman Vitriak. Kliukin previously held the position of deputy prosecutor of Kirovohrad district. After the first two stages he was in 2-th place (88/51,7/139,7).
Before the appointment Vitriak held the position of prosecutor of Dolynske district. After the first two rounds he was in the distant 15-th place (73/11,7/84,7).
As they write on a local forum, Roman Vitriak does not fulfill his official duties; he “covers” the courts and the police of Dolynske district.
Maksym Kobzarenko was appointed first deputy head of the Novoukrainka local prosecutor’s office. Before the appointment he held the position of prosecutor of Haivoron district. After the first two stages he was in 7-th place (80/33,3/113,3). The deputies of the head of this local prosecutor’s office are Maksymilian Horshchak and Artur Sargasyan. Before the appointment Horshchak held the position of prosecutor of Holovanivsk district, Kirovohrad region. After the first two stages he was in first place (95/53,3/148,3).
Before the appointment Sargasyan held the position of senior prosecutor of the Olshanske district prosecutor’s office, Kirovohrad region. After the first two rounds he was in the distant 6-th place (89/30/119).
Zaporizhzhia region
Oleksandr Malenko was appointed first deputy head of the Berdyansk local prosecutor’s office. Before the appointment he held the position of Berdyansk interdistrict prosecutor, Zaporizhzhia region. After the first two stages he was in the last 16-th place (83/11,7/94,7).
Serhiy Shcherbyna was appointed first deputy head of the Melitopol local prosecutor’s office. Before the appointment he held the position of Melitopol interdistrict prosecutor, Zaporizhzhia region. After the first two stages he was in 5-th place (79/48,3/127,3).
The deputies of the head of this local prosecutor’s office are Dmytro Chuvashov and Oksana Sivokon. Before the appointment Chuvashov held the position of deputy prosecutor of an interdistrict prosecutor’s office. After the first two stages he was in 13-th place (89/8,3/97,3).
Before the appointment Sivokon held the position of prosecutor of the Shevchenkivskyi district prosecutor’s office of the city of Zaporizhzhia. After the first two rounds she was in second place (85/55/140).
Oleksandr Rusanov was appointed first deputy head of the Tokmak local prosecutor’s office. Before the appointment he held the position of prosecutor of one of the departments of the Zaporizhzhia regional prosecutor’s office. After the first two stages he was in the last 16-th place (85/25/110).
Natalia Bondarenko became first deputy head of Zaporizhzhia local prosecutor’s office No. 1. Before the appointment she held the position of prosecutor of Zavodskyi district, Zaporizhzhia, Zaporizhzhia region. After the first two stages she was in 12-th place (96/28,3/124,3).
Serhiy Ponomariov was appointed first deputy head of Zaporizhzhia local prosecutor’s office No. 2. Before the appointment he held the position of prosecutor of Komunar district, Zaporizhzhia, Zaporizhzhia region. After the first two stages he was in 9-th place (92/33,3/125,3).
Dmytro Fenenko was appointed first deputy head of Zaporizhzhia local prosecutor’s office No. 3. Before the appointment he held the position of deputy prosecutor of Khortytskyi district, city of Zaporizhzhia, Zaporizhzhia region. After the first two stages he was in 7-th place (81/58,3/139,3).
Oleksandr Solodkyi was appointed first deputy head of the Enerhodar local prosecutor’s office. Before the appointment he held the position of prosecutor of one of the departments of the Zaporizhzhia regional prosecutor’s office. After the first two stages he was in second place (94/60/154).
Odesa region
Tetyana Loza became first deputy head of the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi local prosecutor’s office — a former prosecutor of the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi interdistrict prosecutor’s office. Before the interview she held 4-th place (87/35/122) in the ranking list. The deputies of the head of this local prosecutor’s office are Oleksandr Udovychenko and Iryna Ivanova. Udovychenko had already worked within the walls of the Odesa prosecutor’s office and after the first two stages of the competition he occupied 6-th place (89/28,3/117,3).
In his previous position he earned a dubious reputation. The enterprising prosecutor was involved in conducting unlawful searches and seizing property from the IT company LLC “Speckodservice,” whose management refused to pay bribes and monthly extortion. The court then found prosecutor Udovychenko’s actions illegal, with an abuse of official powers.
Iryna Ivanova is a so-called “external candidate” — before the appointment she worked as an attorney, and after the knowledge check and IQ test she was in first place (94/50/144).
Denys Illyashchuk was appointed first deputy head of the Izmail local prosecutor’s office; after the first two stages of the competition he occupied only 9-th place in the ranking (78/25/103). Illyashchuk had previously worked in the Odesa prosecutor’s office, and in 2014 he managed, on a “modest” prosecutor’s salary of 103 thousand UAH, to acquire a Nissan Juke. Illyashchuk is one of the figures in the scandalous “Kostenko/Kichuk list,” in which the positions of district prosecutor heads were distributed even before the start of the competition. The deputies of the head of this local prosecutor’s office are Ivan Marakhovskyi and Serhiy Kuznetsov. Marakhovskyi previously held the position of prosecutor of Reni district, and before that worked in the Danube transport prosecutor’s office.
During his prosecutor service he engaged in “active activity.” There is information about his involvement in several scandals related to fuel smuggling and embezzlement of property, as well as his participation in the theft of pipes for an irrigation system and metal tanks for petroleum products, from which, according to some reports, he earned more than 16 million UAH.
After the first two stages Marakhovskyi was the leader of the ranking of candidates for managerial positions in local prosecutor’s offices (98/50/148).
The biography of another deputy of this local prosecutor’s office — Serhiy Kuznetsov — is very similar to his colleagues’. He also has extensive prosecutorial experience within the prosecutor’s office of Kominternivskyi district, is one of the figures in the “Kostenko/Kichuk list,” and, while acting as the Danube transport prosecutor, was involved in fuel smuggling into Ukraine. After the first two stages of the competition he occupied third place in the ranking (86/51,7/137,7).
Marina Dodul was appointed first deputy head of the Illichivsk local prosecutor’s office — a former employee of the Kyivskyi district prosecutor’s office, who after the first two rounds occupied third place in the ranking (83/55/138). Her deputies became Liliia Hurska — a former employee of the Odesa city prosecutor’s office who held the distant 13-th place after the first two rounds (81/38,3/119,3), and Stanislav Karbovskyi — an employee of the Balta district prosecutor’s office, who after the first two stages of the competition held fourth place in the ranking (71/65/136).
Yurii Tiora was appointed first deputy head of the Kotovsk local prosecutor’s office — another of the few “external candidates” who is not a prosecutor’s employee. After the first two rounds he was in third place in the ranking for managerial positions in local prosecutor’s offices (90/31,7/121,7). His deputies became Ihor Kucheriavyi — formerly prosecutor of Ananiv district, who before the interview was in 5-th place (82/36,7/118,7) and Tetyana Kovalchuk — formerly an employee of the Savran district prosecutor’s office, who after two rounds was in 12-th place in the ranking (87/8,3/95,3).
Oleksandr Arsenyuk was appointed first deputy head of the Kominternivskyi local prosecutor’s office — an investigator of the Odesa regional prosecutor’s office. After the first two stages he was fourth (97/33,3/130,3). The deputies of the head of this local prosecutor’s office are Abdulla Ghaziyev — an employee of the Malynovskyi district prosecutor’s office of Odesa, who was the leader after the first two rounds (95/48,3/143,3) and Oleksandr Sokolovskyi — deputy prosecutor of the Kyivskyi district of Odesa, who was in 13-th place in the ranking (63/40/103).
Radomyr Koval was appointed first deputy head of the Rozdilna local prosecutor’s office. Previously he held the position of prosecutor of Velykomykhailivka district and after the first two stages he was in 6-th place (75/40/115).
A prosecutor’s salary of about 96 thousand UAH in 2014 allowed Koval’s family to own 3 apartments (80 sq.m, 47 sq.m and 29,1 sq.m), a land plot (1000 sq.m) and a residential house (184 sq.m), as well as to drive Mazda 6 and Volkswagen cars.
The deputies of the head of this local prosecutor’s office became Viacheslav Tsyvilev — an employee of the Odesa regional prosecutor’s office, who after two rounds was second (87/48,3/135,3) and Armen Ovsiepan — an employee of the Shyriaieve district prosecutor’s office, who was the leader after the first two stages of the competition (72/73,3/145,3).
Another figure from the “Kostenko/Kichuk list,” the scandalously known Oleksii Hornostaiev became first deputy head of Odesa local prosecutor’s office No. 1 — previously deputy prosecutor of Kyivskyi district of Odesa, son of former deputy prosecutor of Dnipropetrovsk region Mykola Hornostaiev and son-in-law of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Shokin.
In his financial declaration Hornostaiev indicated income of 110 thousand 016 UAH. His family’s annual income amounted to 153 thousand 926 UAH. In the prosecutor’s ownership, along with a land plot of 1 thousand 115 sq.m, there is also an apartment (42,4 sq.m). His wife — Tetyana Hornostaieva, whom Mikheil Saakashvili accused of corruption and “covering” business, declared an apartment of 130 sq.m, two land plots (578 sq.m and 900 sq.m) and a private house (107,4 sq.m). The prosecutor’s wife drives a Honda CR-V, the cost of which is about 450 thousand UAH.
The deputies of the head of this local prosecutor’s office are Ivan Pendei — a private lawyer, another “external candidate,” albeit with an unusual for “outsiders” dynamics in the ranking — from 13-th (92/30/122) to 3-th place after the interview, and Diana Puntus — an employee of the Malynovskyi district prosecutor’s office of Odesa, who after the first two stages was sixth in the ranking (88/48,3/136,3).
Yurii Korobko was appointed first deputy head of Odesa local prosecutor’s office No. 3; previously he served as deputy prosecutor of the Prymorskyi district of Odesa. After testing he held 10-th position in the ranking (93/41,7/134,7). The new head is linked to “covering” brothels, drinking establishments, slot machines, scrap metal collection points, cigarette smuggling, as well as “raids” on businesses across the entire Kyivskyi district of Odesa. In his declaration for 2014 year the prosecutor indicated income of about 105 thousand UAH, of which salary was 97 thousand 967 UAH, 7 thousand 240 UAH — rental income. Even more interesting are his wife’s incomes, which exceed her husband’s income by more than 5 times. Of those 20 thousand 400 UAH are indicated as salary, 477 thousand 677 UAH — dividends or interest, 54 thousand 680 UAH — gifts and prizes, 3 thousand 200 UAH — scholarship, 74 thousand 609 UAH — income from sale of agricultural goods. The spouses own 5 land plots (42 thousand 900 sq.m and 46 thousand 800 sq.m), as well as 2 plots of 870,6 sq.m, 2 houses (663,2 sq.m and 177,3 sq.m), an apartment (64,2 sq.m) and a garage (44 sq.m), and cars Lexus LX 570, Renault Duster and VAZ 2109.
The deputies of the head of this local prosecutor’s office were Yurii Reut — former senior prosecutor of the Prymorskyi district prosecutor’s office of Odesa and the leader in the ranking after the first two stages (87/85/172) and Dmytro Tretiakov — previously an investigator on especially important cases of the GPU, who occupied 5-th line in the ranking (97/46,7/143,7).
Vacant remain the positions of head, first deputy and deputies of Odesa local prosecutor’s office No. 2, as well as the positions of first deputy and deputies of Odesa local prosecutor’s office No. 4. This is due to the enforcement of a court decision prohibiting the competition commission from providing recommendations for appointment to the specified positions.
Kyiv region
Serhiy Podhorets was appointed first deputy head of the Brovary local prosecutor’s office — a senior prosecutor of the prosecutor’s office department for procedural leadership in criminal proceedings of the Dnipropetrovsk regional prosecutor’s office. After the first two rounds he occupied 4-th place (98/61,7/159,7). The deputies of the head of this local prosecutor’s office are Yaroslav Lelyak, who after the first two stages occupied 6-th place (79/58,3/137,3) and former prosecutor of one of the departments of Donetsk regional prosecutor’s office Natalia Haifulina, who before communicating with the competition commission was in 5-th place in the ranking (91/66,7/159,7).
Oleksandr Sainoh was appointed first deputy head of the Boryspil local prosecutor’s office — a former prosecutor of one of the departments of the Kyiv city prosecutor’s office, who was in 12-th position in the ranking (91/36,7/127,7). One of his deputies became the rather “notorious” former Boryspil interdistrict prosecutor Mykola Ulmer, who after the first two stages was in 2-th place in the ranking (99/51,7/150,7).
The peak of his career came during the leadership of the Prosecutor General’s Office by Viktor Pshonka. Friendship with the Pshonka family allowed Ulmer in just 2 years and 4 months to rise from senior lieutenant and at the age of 28 in 2014 become a colonel. His wife — Evelina Ulmer (Zhiratkova) — is a prosecutor of the General Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine. Among Mykola Ulmer’s “merits” are corruption schemes, raids on business, involvement in illegal land appropriation. With the help of straw people and relatives Mykola Ulmer actively expanded his land holdings. According to an extract from the state register of property rights, Ulmer’s relatives have 12 land plots, three apartments and two parking spaces in Boryspil district. According to his declaration the prosecutor himself is, as required, absolutely clean. But his mother-in-law and father-in-law — Stanislav Viktorovych and Valentyna Ivanivna Zhiratkova — with the help of their caring son-in-law have become real land magnates. In addition, the family of the Boryspil interdistrict prosecutor owns not only agricultural land — registers also show another land plot in the center of Boryspil (cadastre number 3210500000:06:028:0004), on which a large regional construction company PJSC “Ahrostroimekhanizatsiya” is building multi-storey residential houses.
Another deputy head of the Boryspil local prosecutor’s office was appointed former prosecutor of Lutuhyne district of Luhansk region Yevhen Baklahov, who before the interview was in 9-th place in the ranking (90/45/135). His father Yurii Baklahov was the mayor of now-occupied Krasnodon, voluntarily assisted in organizing the pseudo-referendum, and held a rally in support of the LPR. Yevhen Baklahov himself in 2003 was involved in a fatal traffic accident in the settlement of Khriashchevate, Krasnodon district, Luhansk region. While intoxicated, the prosecutor grossly violated traffic rules, but his father came to the rescue, who “resolved” the expertise issue and hushed up the criminal case.
Serhii Cherednychenko was appointed first deputy head of the Kyievo-Sviatoshyn local prosecutor’s office — head of one of the departments of the Kyiv regional prosecutor’s office, who after the first two stages was in 12-th place (83/53,3/136,3) of the ranking list. The deputies of the head of this local prosecutor’s office became Oleh Moshkov — former prosecutor of the city of Makiivka and Anna Burenok — former deputy prosecutor of Vyshhorod district, Kyiv region. After the first two selection rounds of the competition Moshkov was in first place (100/98,3/178,3), and Burenok — in 7-th place (98/46,3/144,3).
Lviv region
Andrii Hnatov was appointed first deputy head of Lviv local prosecutor’s office No. 1 — a former prosecutor of the city of Lviv, who before the interview occupied 3-th place in the ranking (98/51,67/149/67). The deputies of the head of this local prosecutor’s office became former prosecutor of Sykhivskyi district of Lviv Bohdan Pukovskyi, who occupied 8-th line of the ranking (100/38,33/138,33) and the procedural manager of proceedings of the Lviv regional prosecutor’s office Roman Saputskyi, ninth in the ranking (89/48,33/137,33).
Artur Tomashevskyi was appointed first deputy head of the Sambir local prosecutor’s office — previously Sambir interdistrict prosecutor. In the ranking list after the two stages of the open competition Tomashevskyi occupied 3-th place (83/63,33/146,33).
Yaroslav Shokalo was appointed first deputy head of the Chervonohrad local prosecutor’s office — prosecutor of the city of Chervonohrad. In the ranking list after the first two stages of the competition he occupied 3-th place (97/48,33/145,33).
The deputies of the head of this local prosecutor’s office became former deputy prosecutor of Zhovkva district Vitalii Plekan, who before communicating with the competition commission was in 2-th place in the ranking list (100/51,67/151,67) and former prosecutor of the Sokal district prosecutor’s office Yaroslav Harasymchuk — 12-th in the ranking for managerial positions in local prosecutor’s offices (86/31,67/117,67).
Dnipropetrovsk region
The deputies of the head of the Dniprodzerzhynsk local prosecutor’s office became former head of one of the departments of the Dnipropetrovsk regional prosecutor’s office Oleh Kateba, former deputy prosecutor of Zavodskyi district of the city of Dnipropetrovsk Samvel Hohorian and former prosecutor of one of the departments of the Dnipropetrovsk regional prosecutor’s office Maksym Shcherbakov. Kateba before the interview occupied 3-th line in the ranking (95/50/145), Hohorian with very low general ability testing results — only 16,7 out of 100 possible points — was in the distant 14-th place (95/16,7/111,7), and Shcherbakov after the first two rounds occupied 6-th place (82/53,3/135,3).
Ruslan Vyshnivetskyi was appointed first deputy head of the Dnipropetrovsk local prosecutor’s office No. 2 — an investigator of the Dnipropetrovsk regional prosecutor’s office. In the ranking list he was in the penultimate 15-th place (79/38,3/117,3). The deputies of the head of this local prosecutor’s office became Yurii Danyliuk — senior prosecutor of one of the departments of the Dnipropetrovsk regional prosecutor’s office and Yevhen Kaluhin — senior prosecutor of the Babushkinskyi district prosecutor’s office of the city of Dnipropetrovsk. Danyliuk after the first two stages of the competition was in 14-th place (83/35/118), and Kaluhin — in first (84/60/144).
Tetyana Shashlykova was appointed first deputy head of the Nikopol local prosecutor’s office — former deputy Nikopol interdistrict prosecutor. She closed the top three of the ranking list (94/40/134). The deputies of the head of this local prosecutor’s office are former prosecutor of one of the departments of the Dnipropetrovsk regional prosecutor’s office Artur Matveichuk, who after the first two stages occupied 11-th place (67/48,3/115,3) and Oleksandr Voinov, who was in second place in the ranking list (75/73,3/148,3).
Kharkiv region
Andrii Lazarev was appointed first deputy head of the Izium local prosecutor’s office — formerly Izium interdistrict prosecutor. He occupied 5-th place in the ranking (95/38,3/133,3). The deputies of the head of this local prosecutor’s office are former deputy Kupiansk interdistrict prosecutor and 10-th number in the ranking list (77/20/97) — Oleksandr Mykhalik and former prosecutor of Shevchenkivskyi district Dmytro Markevych, who occupied 4-th place in the ranking list (84/50/134).
Oleksandr Tsymbaliuk was appointed first deputy head of the Derhachi local prosecutor’s office — former prosecutor of Zolochiv district, Kharkiv region. He was in 13-th place in the ranking list (73/41,7/114,7). The deputies of the head of this local prosecutor’s office were former senior prosecutor of one of the departments of Kharkiv region Maksym Bondarenko, 15-th in the ranking (82/28,3/110,3)
and Oleksii Kushnarenko, who earlier was deputy of the Valky interdistrict prosecutor and before the interview occupied 2-th place in the ranking (87/45/132).
Maksym Vorvul was appointed first deputy head of the Lozova local prosecutor’s office — formerly deputy Lozova interdistrict prosecutor. He was in 3-th place in the ranking list (95/65/160). The deputies of the head of this local prosecutor’s office became former prosecutor of Blyzniukivshchyna and fifth on the list Eduard Myrhorodskyi and former rank-and-file prosecutor of the Lozova prosecutor’s office Valerii Naumenko, who took fourth place.
The appointment of deputy heads of local prosecutor’s offices shows us that almost all those appointed to administrative positions in the Kirovohrad, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa and certain local prosecutor’s offices of Kyiv, Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions are former employees of the prosecutor’s office, many of whom carry a negative trail of involvement in corrupt acts or other abuses.
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