Viktor Pshonka

Viktor Pshonka
Віктор Пшонка
Виктор Пшонка
Pshonka in 2013
11th Prosecutor General of Ukraine
In office
3 November 2010 – 22 February 2014
PresidentViktor Yanukovych
Preceded byOleksandr Medvedko
Succeeded byOleh Makhnitsky (as GPU commissar)[1]
Personal details
Born
Viktor Pavlovych Pshonka

(1954-02-06) 6 February 1954 (age 70)[2]
Serhiivka, Sloviansk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union[2]
(now Ukraine)

Viktor Pavlovych Pshonka (Ukrainian: Віктор Павлович Пшонка, Russian: Виктор Павлович Пшонка; born 6 February 1954) is a politician from Ukraine, who served as Prosecutor General of Ukraine from 2010[3] to 2014. He was also the State Counselor of Justice of Ukraine and member of the High Council of Justice of Ukraine.[4][5] He holds a Doctor of Laws degree, and is a member of the International Association of Prosecutors.[5]

During his tenure as General Prosecutor, Pshonka focused on modernisation, environmental standards and is noted for starting an investigation into Burisma. He is believed to have fled to Russia, and later taken up its citizenship, following the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution.[6] The new authorities have issued an arrest warrant in his name.[7]

  1. ^ "Ukrainian parliament appoints Makhnitsky as prosecutor general". Interfax-Ukraine. 24 February 2014. Archived from the original on 28 February 2014. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Viktor P. Pshonka Biography". Ukrainian High Council of Justice. Archived from the original on 16 November 2014. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  3. ^ "Update: Yanukovych signs law on new prosecutor general". Kyiv Post. Interfax-Ukraine. 4 November 2010. Archived from the original on 5 November 2010. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  4. ^ "ПШОНКА Віктор Павлович. Генеральний прокурор України" [Pshonka Viktor Pavlovych. General Prosecutor Ukraine]. Ukraine High Council of Justice website (in Ukrainian). 14 October 2013. Archived from the original on 14 October 2013. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  5. ^ a b "Генеральний прокурор України, державний радник юстиції України: Пшонка Віктор Павлович" [Prosecutor General of Ukraine, State Advisor of Justice for Ukraine: Pshonka Viktor Pavlovych]. General Prosecutor of Ukraine website (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 4 December 2012. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  6. ^ "Ukrainian parliament expresses no-confidence to Viktor Pshonka". Trend News Agency. 22 February 2014. Archived from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  7. ^ "Ukraine: Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov named interim president]". BBC News. 23 February 2014. Archived from the original on 3 March 2014. Retrieved 26 November 2019.