Pavlo Lazarenko

Pavlo Lasarenko (1996/97)

Pavlo Lazarenko Iwanowytsch ( Ukrainian Павло Іванович Лазаренко , scientific. Transliteration Pavlo Lazarenko Ivanovyč * 23. January 1953 in Hnidyn , Kiev Oblast ) is a former Ukrainian politicians. He was Prime Minister of Ukraine from May 1996 to July 1997 . Lasarenko was sentenced to nine years in prison in 2006 for corruption and money laundering.

During Leonid Kravchuk's term of office, Lazarenko held the post of representative of the state president in Dnepropetrovsk Oblast . Leonid Kuchma appointed him First Deputy Prime Minister in September 1995 and Prime Minister of Ukraine on June 28, 1996. In July 1996, Lasarenko survived an assassination attempt when a remote-controlled bomb exploded near his car in Kiev. In the summer of 1997, he lost President Kuchma's confidence and finally stepped down on July 2, 1997. Even then there were allegations of corruption against him.

In the parliamentary elections in March 1998, Lasarenko was elected to the Verkhovna Rada for the Hromada party and headed the faction on his list. The future Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was one of the MPs in Hromada at the time, she accused Lasarenko of an authoritarian leadership style and left the party in 1999, together with her political companion Oleksandr Turchynow .

In December 1998, Lasarenko was arrested in Geneva , Switzerland for alleged misappropriation of public finances and money laundering , but was released two weeks later on bail of 4 million Swiss francs. In February 1999 he was arrested and imprisoned again while entering the USA with an expired diplomatic passport. In November 2000, Ukraine received back the money from Lasarenko, which had been blocked by Switzerland and allegedly embezzled, amounting to the equivalent of DM 13.4 million. After four years in custody in the United States, he was released from prison in June 2003 on bail of $ 65 million and placed under house arrest.

In 2006 a San Francisco court sentenced him to nine years' imprisonment and a fine of ten million dollars for extortion and money laundering . The Prosecutor General of Ukraine accused Lasarenko of commissioning the murders of businessman Yevhen Shcherban and politician Vadym Hetman in 1996 and 1998, respectively, and requested his extradition.

Lasarenko was released on November 1, 2012 and has been in the United States ever since.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prime Minister Lasarenko survives attack unharmed FAZ of July 18, 1996.
2. ↑ Ukrainian Prime Minister submits resignation Die Welt of July 3, 1997.
3. ↑ Former head of government has been imprisoned for nine years Focus from August 26, 2006.
4. ↑ Ukraine: murder charges against ex-premier Spiegel Online from September 4, 2001.
5. ↑ Out of Prison in California, Former Prime Minister Lazarenko is Not in a Rush to Go to Ukraine Forbes.com dated November 2, 2012.