Vitaliy Yuriyovych Zakharchenko (, Russian: Виталий Юрьевич Захарченко, born 20 January 1963) Захарченко Виталий Юрьевич, Politrada is a Ukrainian and Russian politician who is a senior consultant at Russia's Rostec state corporation. He previously served as Ukraine's Minister of Internal AffairsYanukovych appoints Mohyliov to Crimean post, Kyiv Post (7 November 2011)Chief tax officer Zakharchenko appointed interior minister of Ukraine, Kyiv Post (7 November 2011) from 7 November 2011 until he was suspended from his duties by the Ukrainian parliament on 21 February 2014.Rada suspends Acting Interior Minister Zakharchenko from his duties , Interfax-Ukraine (21 February 2014) His position as Minister of the Interior, had given him control over the Ukrainian national police service, the Militsiya. One day prior to his dismissal, he had signed a decree calling for the police to be armed with combat weapons, to be used in their ongoing battles against protesters in Kyiv's Maidan Nezalezhnosti. The Council of the European Union sanctioned him effective 6 March 2014 for misuse of public funds and human rights violations (Decision 2014/119/CFSP), and the United States sanctioned him effective 22 December 2015 ().
Biography Vitaliy Zakharchenko Податкову очолив Віталій Захарченко, BBC Ukrainian (25 December 2010) was born in Kostiantynivka, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. He was graduated from the Riga branch of the Minsk Higher School of Interior of the USSR in 1991.Chief tax officer Zakharchenko appointed interior minister of Ukraine, Interfax Ukraine (7 November 2011) Захарченко Виталий Юрьевич, Информационно-аналитический центр "ЛІГА" He began his career with the police in the Donetsk Oblast in July 1981. From May 2008 to June 2010 he held leading positions in the State Tax Administration in Poltava Oblast. President Viktor Yanukovych appointed Zakharchenko as head of the State Tax Administration of Ukraine on 25 December 2010.Yanukovych reappoints Tax Administration head, Kyiv Post (25 December 2010) On 7 November 2011 the president appointed him Minister of Internal Affairs, replacing Anatolii Mohyliov who had been named the new Prime Minister of Crimea; simultaneously, Yanukovych appointed Oleksandr Klymenko as head of the State Tax Administration of Ukraine.Deputy Tax Chief Klymenko tapped to head tax service, Interfax Ukraine (7 November 2011) According to Ukrainian media Zakharchenko is a close friend of President Yanukovych's son, Viktor Viktorovych Yanukovych, Любі друзі Олександра Януковича, Ukrayinska Pravda, (7 November 2011) though President Yanukovych, through his press service, denied that he appointed individuals to top government positions based on their personal loyalty and closeness to his family rather than qualifications.Yanukovych denies favoring loyalists and ‘family’ in appointments, Kyiv Post (5 March 2012) Since Zakharchenko was an officer of the Interior Ministry, he was not allowed to be a member of a political party.Crimean prime minister planning to join Regions Party again, Kyiv Post (9 November 2011)
There is a suspicion that the minister owned the single active golden ore deposit in Muzhievo, Zakarpattia Oblast.Only gold deposit in Ukraine controls the partner Zaharchenko. Ukraiyinska Pravda. 13 January 2014
The Ukrainian parliament suspended Zakharchenko from his duties on 21 February 2014 for using violence against protesters in the February 2014 Euromaidan riots.Ukraine parliament votes to sack interior minister, The Daily Star (Lebanon) (21 February 2014)Tensions high at Kyiv protest camp despite ground-breaking deal, CTV News (21 February 2014) Five days later an arrest warrant was put out for him and he is currently wanted on murder charges. Since then he was last seen in Russia on 13 April 2014 during a joint press conference with Viktor Yanukovych and former Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Pshonka in Rostov-on-Don.Since giving Pshonka disappeared marble lions - journalist, Ukrayinska Pravda (5 November 2016)
According to Krymedia.ru, on 16 January 2015 Zakharchenko was planning to arrive in Sevastopol for a celebration of establishment of Berkut police anti-riots unit and present his charity fund "Yugo-Vostok" (South-East).Zakharchenko will arrive in Sevastopol to celebrate establishment of Berkut . Ukrinform. 14 January 2015 The same day, Zakharchenko announced that he acquired Russian citizenship.
He was stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship on 4 February 2023.
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