Juta Strīķe

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Juta Strīķe, 2019

Juta Strīķe (born Potapova ; born July 18, 1970 in Moscow ; † March 18, 2020 in Jūrmala ) was a Latvian politician and civil servant in the anti-corruption agency KNAB .

Life

Juta Strīķe was born in Moscow and graduated from secondary school there. She graduated from the University of Latvia . Strīķe worked for the Latvian Security Police and from 2003 at the Bureau for the Prevention and Control of Corruption (KNAB). She was temporarily deputy head of this authority. After various legal disputes with Jaroslavs Streļčenoks , the new head of the KNAB, Strīķē was transferred to lower positions and left the institution in 2016.

politics

In 2017 Strīķe was elected to the city council of the Latvian capital Riga .

After the parliamentary elections in Latvia in 2018 , she was a member of the Jaunā konservatīvā partija (JKP) in the Latvian parliament . She was elected by her group as group leader on November 6, 2018, the day of the first meeting of the newly elected parliament. On January 30, 2019, she became chair of the Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee.

She died of a serious illness on March 18, 2020. Justice Minister Jānis Bordāns , the chairman of the JKP, emphasized that her illness was not related to the COVID-19 pandemic , which also spread in Latvia in March 2020 .

Web links

Commons : Juta Strīķe  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Juta Strike agrāk bijusi Anna Potapova. In: Delfi.lv . January 5, 2011, accessed March 19, 2020 (Latvian).
  2. Odita Krenberga, Dace Stirāne: Mūžībā devusies Saeimas deputāte un bijusī KNAB priekšnieka vietniece Juta Strīķe. In: Latvijas Sabiedriskais medijs. March 18, 2020, accessed on March 18, 2020 (Latvian).
  3. Bulduru slimnīcā negaidīti mirusi Juta Strīķe. In: Pietiek. March 18, 2020, accessed on March 19, 2020 (Latvian).
  4. Saeima deputy and ex-KNAB vice chief Juta Strīķe has passed away . In: BNN - Baltic News Network. March 18, 2020, accessed March 20, 2020.