Andrij Bohdan

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Andrij Jossypowytsch Bohdan ( Ukrainian Андрій Йосипович Богдан ; born December 3, 1976 in Lviv , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian lawyer and politician. Since May 21, 2019 he has been head of the Presidential Administration of the Ukrainian President and since June 2019 he has been a member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine .

Because of his influence, he is referred to as "shadow president" and is considered a " puppet master " of Volodymyr Selenskyj and "the second man after Selenskyj in Ukraine".

Life

Andrij Bohdan was born as the son of Jossyp Bohdan (Ukrainian Йосип Гнатович Богдан ), associate professor in the department of civil law and civil procedural law at the Ivan Franko University of Lviv in the western Ukrainian city ​​of Lviv (Lemberg). At the same university he studied law in 1998 and finances in 2007. He is a qualified economist, finance specialist and lawyer and has a doctorate in law. From 1998 he worked as a lawyer in the private and public sectors. In 2001 he became a lawyer at the Commercial Court of Kiev and in 2004 he became a partner and then managing partner of the law firm Pukschyn & Partner.

In the early parliamentary elections in Ukraine in 2007 , Bohdan took up position 93 in the Blok Nascha Ukrajina - Narodna samooborona block , but did not win a seat. From 2008 he worked in leading positions in the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice and in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine . From December 2007 to March 2009 he was assistant to the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Rada Andrij Portnow , from 2007 to 2010 Deputy Minister of Justice Mykola Onishchuk and from March 17, 2010 to March 3, 2014 in the government of Mykola Azarov, Deputy Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and Government Commissioner for Anti-Corruption Policy. He was dismissed after the events of Euromaidan in March 2014, after which he again worked as a lawyer in the private sector and became an advisor to the chairman of the regional government of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Ihor Kolomoyskyi , who made him his personal lawyer in 2015. In the early parliamentary elections in 2014 , he ran again unsuccessfully for MP, this time on position 74 of the Petro Poroshenko block . In 2015 he was also the defense lawyer for the oligarch and party leader of the Ukrainian Union of Patriots Hennadij Korban .

Volodomyr Selenskijy and Andrij Bohdan in May 2019

During the 2019 presidential election campaign , Bohdan acted as legal advisor to presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskyi . After winning the election, he was appointed head of the presidential administration by decree of the President of Ukraine on May 21, 2019 and head of the office of the President of Ukraine on June 25, 2019. He has been a member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine since May 31, 2019 .

Controversy

Lustration

Since he was already active in the government of Mykola Azarov , he falls under the Ukraine Lustration Act of October 2014, which forbids the employment of politically incriminated civil servants in the civil service for a period of ten years, which is why a lawsuit against his has been filed since May 25, 2019 Appointment as head of presidential administration is pending.

Power struggle with Klitschko

According to Vitali Klitschko , Andrij Bohdan gave him the choice with whom he would coordinate his future work as mayor of Kiev and head of the Kiev city administration: Either with the real estate entrepreneur Andrij Vawrysch or with the media producer Oleksandr Tkachenko , Klitschko explained at a press conference on July 26, 2019. In a press conference on July 30, 2019, however, Bohdan claimed that a lawyer active in Kyiv local politics offered him $ 20 million a year in bribes if he campaigned for Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko to stay in power . Bohdan went on to say that Klitschko would turn a blind eye to corruption and lose control of the city, whereupon Klitschko reported him to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau.

honors and awards

  • 2007 Honored Lawyer of Ukraine
  • 2010 law candidate
  • 2013 diploma from the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine

Web links

Commons : Andrij Bohdan  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Ukrainian shadow president? to understand Ukraine from August 27, 2019; accessed on September 15, 2019
  2. ↑ a b The man who persuaded Selenskyj to run for office in the FAZ on April 26, 2019; accessed on September 15, 2019
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g dossier Andrij Jossypowytsch Bohdan on ednist.info ; accessed on September 15, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Profile of Andrij Bohdan on the official website of the President of Ukraine; accessed on September 15, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  5. ↑ a b c Klitschko reacts with a complaint against allegations by Andrij Bohdan on ukrinform.de ; accessed on September 15, 2019
  6. ↑ a b What We Know About New Head of Zelenskyy's PA Andriy Bohdan on en.hromadske.ua from May 23, 2019; accessed on September 15, 2019
  7. ↑ Attorney Bohdan: BPP would like to cross me off his list because I took part in the Korban case on unian.net on December 24, 2015; accessed on September 15, 2019 (Russian)
  8. ↑ Public Lustration Committee files a lawsuit about the appointment of Bohdan as head of the presidential administration on ukrinform.net on May 25, 2019; accessed on September 15, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  9. ↑ Power transformation in Ukraine on n-tv from July 27, 2019; accessed on September 15, 2019
  10. ↑ Power struggle for Kiev: The box idol is threatened with a political knock-out in the FAZ on August 4, 2019; accessed on September 15, 2019
  11. ↑ Klitschko's shortcomings as mayor are easy to see in kyivpost of August 9, 2019; accessed on September 15, 2019 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Bohdan, Andrij
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bohdan, Andrij Jossypowytsch (full name); Богдан, Андрій Йосипович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd December 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv , Ukrainian SSR