Svyatoslav Piskun
Svyatoslav Piskun Святослав Піскун |
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Piskun in December 2004
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Prosecutor General of Ukraine | |
In office April 26, 2007 – May 24, 2007 |
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President | Viktor Yushchenko |
Preceded by | Oleksandr Medvedko |
Succeeded by | Oleksandr Medvedko (since June 1, 2007) |
In office December 10, 2004 – October 14, 2005 |
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President | Viktor Yushchenko |
Preceded by | Hennadiy Vasylyev |
Succeeded by | Oleksandr Medvedko |
In office July 06, 2002 – October 29, 2003 |
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President | Leonid Kuchma |
Preceded by | Mykhailo Potebenko |
Succeeded by | Hennadiy Vasylyev |
Personal details | |
Born | Berdychiv, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
March 8, 1959
Political party | Independent |
Other political affiliations |
Party of Regions (2006-2007) |
Spouse(s) | Svitlana Sevast'yanivna (1962) |
Children | Tetyana (1983), Svyatoslav (2000) |
Residence | Kiev, Ukraine |
Alma mater | Lviv University |
Religion | Judaism |
Svyatoslav Mykhaylovych Piskun (Ukrainian: Святослав Михайлович Піскун, born March 8, 1959) was the 3 times Prosecutor General of Ukraine in 2002-2003, 2005 and 2007 till President Viktor Yushchenko's dismissed Piskun on May 24, 2007.[1] He worked as a prosecutor in several important cases, including murder of Georgiy Gongadze and investigation of United Energy Systems of Ukraine.
Career
On March, 2006 he was elected as a people's deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from Party of Regions list as №96 - but he was not a party member.[2] Piskun was elected in parliament for Party of Regions again in 2007.[3] He became a full member of Party of Regions in October 2008.[3] Piskun did not return to parliament after the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election after losing in single-member districts number 63 (first-past-the-post wins a parliament seat) located in Zhytomyr Oblast.[4] In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Khoroshkovskyi tried to return to national politics this time from the party of Strong Ukraine (placing 16th on the parties election list).[5][6] But in the election the party failed to clear the 5% election threshold (it got 3.11% of the votes) and thus Piskun was not elected into parliament.[7] Piskun was only allowed to take part in the election after a court decision validated his entrance in the election, at first the Central Election Commission of Ukraine had refused to register him because in the last 5 years leading up to the election he had not lived in Ukraine.[8]
Dismissals
Piskun is the only statesman in Ukraine whose dismissals by two Presidents have been overturned as unlawful by courts.[9] The latest being an April 24, 2009 Kyiv Court of Appeals passing of a ruling saying President Yushchenko's decree dated May 24, 2007, dismissing Sviatoslav Piskun from the post of the prosecutor general was unlawful,[1][10] but Piskun did not submit any application for his reinstating on the post of Prosecutor General.[10]
According to Piskun, his dismissal by President Yushchenko in October 2005 came because he stopped criminal proceedings against Tymoshenko and refused to drop proceedings against Petro Poroshenko.[11] He was criticized for closing the criminal case related to the United Energy Systems of Ukraine while serving under Viktor Yushchenko's government in 2005.[12] and dropping criminal cases regarding back-then Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.[13]
Crimean crisis
On 30 March 2014 during the interview with Inter TV channel he called for criminal prosecution of Ukrainian officials who are responsible for giving up Crimea to Russia [14][15]
References
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- ↑ Laws of Ukraine. Presidential Decree No. 357/2007: Question of S. Piskun. Adopted on April 26, 2007. (Ukrainian)
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External links
- CLAN of Yanukovich: PISKUN (Russian)
- Interview with Svyatoslav Piskun on Image.ua
- Use mdy dates from November 2014
- Articles containing Ukrainian-language text
- Articles with Russian-language external links
- 1959 births
- Living people
- People from Berdychiv
- Ukrainian Jews
- Party of Regions politicians
- Strong Ukraine politicians
- Fifth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
- Sixth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
- General Prosecutors of Ukraine
- University of Lviv alumni