Yury Lutsenko

Yury Lutsenko, 2016

Jurij Vitalijovyč Lucenko ( Ukrainian Юрій Віталійович Луценко , scientific transliteration Jurij Vitalijovyč Lucenko ; born December 14, 1964 in Rivne ) is a Ukrainian politician . He was Minister of the Interior of Ukraine from February 2005 to December 2006 and again from December 2007 to January 2010. In the parliamentary elections on October 26, 2014 , he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada as a member of the Verkhovna Rada at number 2 on the list of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc , of which he was party chairman from 2014 to 2015 . He was Attorney General of Ukraine from May 12, 2016 to August 29, 2019.

Life

Family background

Jurij Luzenko's father Vitaliy Lutsenko (1937-1999) was a high-ranking member of the Ukrainian section of the CPSU . He was first Secretary of the Regional Committee of the Communist Party in Rivne Oblast and later in Kiev Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR and Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine . Luzenko's mother, Wira Luzenko (* 1936), is a veterinarian .

Education and professional career

Lutsenko studied electrical engineering at the Lviv Polytechnic Institute since 1982 . He left it in 1989, after a two-year hiatus due to military service, as an engineer and then worked for the Riwner company Gasotron until 1994 .

Political career

Under President Kuchma

In 1994 Lutsenko was elected to the Rivne Oblast Parliament and served as its deputy chairman. In the oblast administration he was active in the economic committee until 1997.

From September 1997 to September 1998 he was appointed to the Kiev Ministry of Education and Technology; then he worked as an advisor to the Prime Minister. Since 1999 Lutsenko has been a close advisor to the SPU chairman Oleksandr Moros , and since December 2000 he has been deputy chairman of the Ukraine without Kuchma campaign , the aim of which was to bring about the resignation of the authoritarian ruling President Leonid Kuchma . In April 2002, Lutsenko was elected to the Ukrainian parliament for the Socialist Party of Ukraine .

After the "Orange Revolution"

On February 4, 2005, Parliament confirmed his appointment as Minister of the Interior in the government of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko ( Tymoshenko I cabinet ). Even after their resignation as head of government, he initially remained in office under Prime Minister Yuri Jechanurov ( Jechanurov cabinet ) and Viktor Yanukovych ( second cabinet ).

Lutsenko in 2007

In July 2006, Lutsenko resigned from the Socialist Party, protesting against their entry into a government coalition with the Party of the Yanukovych Regions and the Communists . At the beginning of December 2006 he lost his office as Minister of the Interior and was replaced by Wassyl Zuzko . In the same year he founded the political association Narodna Samooborona ("National Self-Defense"), which ran in the 2007 parliamentary elections together with the party President Yushchenko ( Nascha Ukrajina ) as the electoral alliance Blok Nascha Ukrajina - Narodna samooborona (NU-NS). After the election, he campaigned against Yushchenko's reservations for the formation of a coalition only between the two western-oriented forces, the NU-NS and the Julija Tymoshenko block , without the participation of the Party of Regions. In the Tymoshenko government elected by parliament on December 18, 2007, he was again Minister of the Interior.

In the wake of the government crisis in 2008, Lutsenko distanced himself from President Yushchenko and announced that he would compete with his group Narodna Samooborona on the BJuT's list in possible new elections .

Airport affair

On May 5, 2009, Lutsenko and his son were refused an onward flight to Seoul by a Lufthansa flight captain at Frankfurt am Main airport because he appeared to have been heavily drunk. As a result, Lutsenko is said to have acted abusive, insulted the police officers who were called and assaulted them. After the incident had been reported, Lutsenko offered to resign to the Ukrainian parliament on May 12, 2009, but at the same time stated that the media coverage of the incident was partially incorrect. Lutsenko was initially released from the office of Minister of the Interior. He said on May 15 that he saw himself primarily as a victim of defamation by the media and that he had filed a complaint against the Bild newspaper. She had reported that Lutsenko had insulted police officers as "Nazi pigs" during the incident at the airport, which Lutsenko denied. The Berlin Regional Court obliged the Bild-Zeitung to print a reply and Lutsenko returned to his office.

Removal as Minister of the Interior

In the course of the 2010 presidential election , the opposition Party of the Regions accused Lutsenko of wanting to intervene in the election and manipulate it. At a special session of the Ukrainian parliament on January 28, 2010, Lutsenko was deposed as Minister of the Interior. The vote was supported by MPs from all parliamentary groups. Only in the parliamentary group of Blok Julija Tymoshenko did a majority of the MPs vote in favor of Lucenko's remaining in the office of interior minister.

Arrest and criminal trial

See also : Criminal proceedings against supporters of Yulia Tymoshenko

Lutsenko was arrested on December 26, 2010 in Kiev. The attorney general accused him of misappropriating state assets and abuse of office . Lutsenko is said to have given his chauffeur an additional pension of 3800 euros. Lutsenko rejected the allegations, described the trial against him as politically motivated and compared the criminal proceedings with the repression of the Stalin era . A week earlier, Yulia Tymoshenko had been charged with alleged embezzlement of state funds. Although Lutsenko suffered from cirrhosis of the liver , according to a medical report, the court refused to allow him to be transferred to a hospital. On February 27, 2012, after 14 months of pre-trial detention, Lutsenko was sentenced to four years in prison by a court in Kiev, and he was also not allowed to run for political office until 2015. His lawyer announced an appeal against the verdict. Both the conditions of detention and the verdict against Lutsenko have been repeatedly criticized by the German government. In a statement by State Minister Cornelia Pieper , following the verdict, the Ukraine was a “selective, politically motivated judiciary”. The Ukrainian government has been warned to uphold the rule of law.
According to the judgment of the ECJ ( European Court of Human Rights ) on July 3, 2012, the Ukrainian judiciary violated the European Convention on Human Rights several times in the Lutsenko trial . At the beginning of March 2013, Ukrainian President Yanukovych announced that he would examine a pardon for Lutsenko if he was not released from custody by the country's Supreme Court. On April 3, 2013, the Supreme Court of Ukraine upheld the verdict against Lutsenko, only slightly reducing the fine imposed on him. On April 7, 2013, Lutsenko was pardoned by Yanukovych and released from custody.

In an interview with Deutsche Welle on April 24, 2013, Lutsenko stated that the government's decision to release him was a forced concession that came about as a result of pressure from the European community and the Ukrainian opposition. He also expects Yulia Tymoshenko to be released soon.

Third Ukrainian Republic

In spring 2013, Yuri Lutsenko initiated the citizens' movement “Third Ukrainian Republic”. He said the project would cost about $ 100,000 by the end of 2013, and denied any involvement in funding from politicians. At that time he was not a member of a party because he "pursues the path to the same goal as" Fatherland ", from below and from the people, by organizing a link between the opposition parties and the people".

Supporter of the Euromaidan

Lutsenko supported the demands of the Euromaidan and is a member of the Maidan Council . On January 11, 2014, he suffered head injuries in violent clashes between police and demonstrators in Kiev and had to be treated in an intensive care clinic. His wife said he was repeatedly hit on the head by officers from the Berkut Special Unit .

Party leader

On August 27, 2014, Lutsenko was unanimously elected party leader of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc party and took second place on the list for the 2014 parliamentary election . In 2015 Vitali Klitschko succeeded him as chairman.

Attorney General

He was Attorney General of Ukraine from May 12, 2016 to August 29, 2019 . After the death of civil rights activist Kateryna Handsyuk in 2018, Lutsenko offered to resign, but President Poroshenko refused. The National Anti-Corruption Office of Ukraine accused Lutsenko of preventing an investigation into Paul Manafort and allowing an important witness to escape to Moscow.

Honors

On December 14, 2006 he was awarded the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class.

Web links

Commons : Jurij Lutsenko  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Side of the Narodna Samooborona
• unofficial page of the Narodna Samooborona
• Page of the Nascha Ukrajina-Narodna Samooborona electoral alliance

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Central Election Commission 2014, Electoral list of PARTY "BLOK PETRA POROSHENKA", Official Website, cvk.gov.ua ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ NEWSru.ua: Луценко закликав всі демсили об'єднатися в єдиний список на базі БЮТ ( memento of the original from December 19, 2015 in the Internet archive ) Info: The archive link has not yet been automatically checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Ukrainian Minister of the Interior mobs at the airport. In: sueddeutsche.de. May 17, 2010, accessed June 14, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Konrad Schuller: Kiev's beating interior minister. In: FAZ.net . May 7, 2009, accessed October 13, 2018 . 
8. ↑ NEWSru.ua : Луценко подал в отставку из-за “пьяного дебоша” во Франкфурте ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ FAZ.NET: Ukrainian Interior Minister Lutsenko resigns. In: FAZ.net . May 12, 2009. Retrieved October 13, 2018 . 
10. ↑ NEWSru.ua: Луценко подал в суд на газету picture ( memento of the original from May 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ http://podrobnosti.ua/power/2009/06/10/608155.html
12. ↑ RIA Novosti : Ukraine: Interior Minister starts work again despite alcohol scandal
13. ↑ NEWSru.ua : Верховная Рада уволила Луценко ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
14. ↑ Former interior minister arrested in Kiev in: Spiegel Online of December 26, 2010
15. ↑ Ukrainian opposition politician arrested in: NZZ Online from December 26, 2010
16. ^ Public prosecutor charges Tymoshenko with breach of trust in: Spiegel Online from December 20, 2010
17. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/meinung/juri-luzenko-ich-erwarte-kein-faires- Judgment/ 6261364.html
18. ↑ Tymoshenko confidante in Ukraine sentenced to four years in prison.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: otz.de of February 27, 2012  
19. ↑ http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/DE/Infoservice/Presse/Mommunikations/2011/110922_StM_H_besracht_Luzenko.html
20. ↑ http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/DE/Infoservice/Presse/Mommunikations/2012/120227-StM_P_Luzenko.html
21. ↑ European Court of Human Rights condemns Ukraine in Lutsenko case ; Press release from the Federal Foreign Office on July 3, 2012
22. ↑ Grace to Lutsenko ; Sueddeutsche Zeitung from March 2, 2013 ( Memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
23. ↑ Judgment of former Ukrainian Interior Minister Lutsenko confirmed ; The April 4, 2013 standard
24. ↑ Lutsenko, a prisoner of the opposition, released ; Handelsblatt dated April 7, 2013
25. ↑ Announcement about the pardon of Luzenko on the website of the Ukrainian President, April 7, 2013 ( Memento of the original of October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
26. ↑ Lutsenko: “We need the EU association” , accessed on April 28, 2013 by Deutsche Welle
27. ↑ Луценко рассказал, откуда у него деньги на движение Ukrainskaya Pravda on July 12, 2013, accessed on April 29, 2014
28. ↑ Ukraine's ex-minister Lutsenko seriously injured , Focus , January 12, 2014
29. ↑ Луценко став новим генпрокурором України Детальніше читайте на ( Lutsenko is the new Attorney General of Ukraine ) on Unian.ua on May 12, 2016
30. ↑ Murray Waas: Ukraine Continued: How a Crucial Witness Escaped - October 8, 2019
31. ↑ Presidential Decree No. 1073/2006 of December 14, 2006 , accessed on February 16, 2015