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Olena Lukash | |
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Олена Лукаш | |
 Lukash in 2014 | |
| 13th Minister of Justice of Ukraine | |
| In office July 4, 2013 – February 27, 2014 | |
| Prime Minister | Mykola Azarov |
| Preceded by | Oleksandr Lavrynovych |
| Succeeded by | Pavlo Petrenko |
| Minister of Cabinet of Ministers | |
| In office December 24, 2012 – July 4, 2013 | |
| Prime Minister | Mykola Azarov |
| Preceded by | Anatoly Tolstouhov |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| In office May 25, 2006 – December 12, 2012 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | November 12, 1976 Rybnitsa, Moldavian SSR (now Moldova) |
| Political party | Party of Regions |
| Spouse | Hryhoriy Ilyashov |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Academy of Labor and Social Relations |
| Occupation | Politician |
Olena Leonidovna Lukash (Ukrainian: Олена Леонідівна Лукаш; born 12 November 1976) is a Ukrainian former jurist, politician, former Minister of Justice of Ukraine, as well as a former member of the Party of Regions. She was a Merited Jurist of Ukraine (2010).[1]
From February 2014, Lukash was wanted for charges of murder and mass complicity in the Revolution of Dignity when President Yanukovych fled to Russia. [2][3][4] She is believed to have fled to Russia in the aftermath of the Revolution of Dignity.[5] From then she was also placed on an EU sanctions list.[6] From June 2015 Lukash was also wanted on abuse of office and fraud charges.[7] On November 5, 2015, the Security Service of Ukraine arrested Olena Lukash upon her return to Kyiv from Russia,[8] and a court was opened to file charges against her. However on November 10, she was released on bail of over 5 million Hryvnia after she claimed that she deliberately had gone to the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine to give evidence for an investigation into the deaths of over a hundred people in the Revolution of Dignity.[9] In 2020, it was alleged that Lukash was currently hosting a program and guest-appearing on pro-Russian channels owned by Viktor Medvedchuk, as part of a wider Russian disinformation campaign against Ukraine.[10]
- ^ Presidential Ukase № 936/2010 of October 7, 2010 Archived January 28, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Dossier - Trombinoscope des criminels - Comité Représentatif de la Communauté Ukrainienne en France (CRCUF)". Archived from the original on December 20, 2014. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
- ^ "МВС оголосило в міждержавний розшук Азарова".
- ^ "Yanukovych heads list of those wanted for crimes - Mar. 07, 2014". March 6, 2014.
- ^ "Ukraine's Ex-Justice Minister Detained". RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty. Retrieved October 25, 2022.
- ^ "EU sanctions against Serhiy Kliuyev extended – Ukrainian prosecutor general".
- ^ "Ukraine's ex-minister of justice Lukash suspected of embezzlement, forgery - PGO - Jun. 04, 2015". June 4, 2015.
- ^ SBU arrests former justice minister Olena Lukash
- ^ "Ex-justice minister Lukash released on bail". www.ukrinform.net. Retrieved October 25, 2022.
- ^ "#KremlinNarratives: Olena Lukash on feudalization". uacrisis.org. May 21, 2020. Retrieved September 14, 2023.