Valerii Ivashchenko ( uk, Валерій Іващенко) (* 30 July 1956,

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in 2007–2009, Acting Minister from 2009 to 2010.

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Biography

Ivashchenko born 30 July 1956 in

. In 1978 he graduated from the Military Engineering Academy named after Mozhaiskogo. His service began at the space port " Baikonur". From 1978 to 1993 served on military engineering and command positions in space port "Baikonur" and "

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". In 1993 he graduated from the Military Academy. Dzerzhinsky. In 1993–1995, served on the positions at the headquarters of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine arms. From 1995 to 1996 — Head of the Center of Administrative Management Group's strategic nuclear forces of the

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. From 1996 to 2000 he worked in the Office of Military mobilization work and law enforcement agencies of the

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. In 2000–2001 — State Expert management of foreign national security aspects of the

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. From 2001 to 2003, served as head of the department of the State Committee on Military-Industrial Complex of Ukraine. From 2003 to 2005 — Head of Department of Defence and Industry Policy Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. In 2005 — Deputy Head of the Department of Industrial Policy of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. In 2005–2007 — Deputy Head of service security and defense policy — Head of the Defence

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. From October 2007 to June 2009 he was Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine. Following the resignation of Yekhanurov order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 604-r dated 5 June 2009 was appointed First Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine, March 2010 served as Minister of Defense of Ukraine. From November 2012 to November 2019 he lived in Denmark, Copenhagen, and worked at the Royal Danish Defense Academy. From August 2020 to September 2021 – First Deputy Minister of Strategic Industries of Ukraine. Married. He has a son and a daughter.

The criminal case

21 August 2010 Ivashchenko was detained by the Military Prosecutor. He was accused of illegally deciding on Sale of Assets Feodosia ship & mechanical plant. 24 August he was arrested. In June 2011, Ivashchenko announced an indefinite hunger strike in protest against the bias of the panel of judges, but soon stopped the hunger strike due to health. Ivashchenko Lawyers filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights iin relation to a violation of pre-trial and during the trial. In an interview with "Kommersant" Ivashchenko said he had no relation to the sale of property alienation and CRS. On April 12, 2012, he was a district court in Kiev sentenced to five years' imprisonment. Ivashchenko said that his case was fabricated former Deputy Attorney General Vitaly Shchetkin. The USA and the European Union criticized the judgment and spoke of "selective justice". A European Parliament mission led by former Polish President Aleksander Kwaśniewski investigated several trials and criminal judgments in Ukraine in the summer of 2012 (including those against Iwaschtschenko and against Julija Tymoshenko and Yuriy Lutsenko) and criticized the Ukrainian judiciary in the process. On August 14, 2012, an appellate court reduced Ivashchenko's sentence to a one-year prison sentence, which was suspended and released from custody in the courtroom. Ivashchenko fled to Denmark, and in January 2013 the Danish government had granted him and his wife political asylum. On April 4, 2014, the court of first instance, in the same composition as on 12 April 2012, cancelled its sentence for Ivashchenko.

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