Serhiy Volodymyrovych Pashynskyi ( uk, Сергі́й Володи́мирович Паши́нський; born 14 October 1966) is Ukrainian politician and statesman. He has been a people's deputy of Ukraine of four convocations and is the chairman of the Committee on

National Security and Defense Council The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC; uk, Рада національної безпеки і оборони України, RNBO or RNBOU) is the coordinating state body of the executive power under the President of Ukrai ...

. From 5 March to 20 June 2014, Pashynskyi was the acting head of the

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Biography

Early years

Serhiy Pashynskyi was born on 14 October 1966 in the village of Zirne,

Berezne Raion Berezne Raion ( uk, Березнівський район) was a raion in Rivne Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center was the town of Berezne Berézne ( uk, Бере́зне, russian: Берёзно, pl, Bereźne) is a city in ...

of the

Rovno Oblast Rivne Oblast ( uk, Рі́вненська о́бласть, translit=Rivnenska oblast), also referred to as Rivnenshchyna ( uk, Рі́вненщина) is an oblast (province) of Ukraine. Its administrative center is Rivne. The surface area of th ...

. In 1978 Serhiy Pashynskyi moved to the town of

Korosten Korosten ( uk, Ко́ростень, ; historically also ''Iskorosten'' ) is a historic city and a large transport hub in the Zhytomyr Oblast (province) of northern Ukraine. It is located on the Uzh River. Korosten serves as the administrative ce ...

Zhytomyr Oblast Zhytomyr Oblast ( uk, Жито́мирська о́бласть, translit=Zhytomyrska oblast), also referred to as Zhytomyrshchyna ( uk, Жито́мирщина}) is an oblast (province) of northern Ukraine. The administrative center of the obla ...

, where he graduated from high school No. 3. In 1983, after graduating from the school, he worked as a turner at the ''KhimMash'' enterprise in Korosten. In 1984 Pashynskyi entered the historical faculty of the Kyiv Pedagogical Institute named after A.M.Gorky (now - National Pedagogical Drahomanov University). While studying at the Institute he took part in

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, he also was a member of the

Komsomol The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (russian: link=no, Всесоюзный ленинский коммунистический союз молодёжи (ВЛКСМ), ), usually known as Komsomol (; russian: Комсомол, links=n ...

committee. In 1985 Serhiy Pashynkyi started military service in the Soviet Army in the military unit No. 23296 in Kherson. After completing military service, he continues to study at the institute. In 1991 he graduated from the institute and obtained a specialty "historian and social scientist".

Employment

From 1991 to 1998 he engaged in entrepreneurial activity in the field of trade, production and processing of agricultural products. In 1998-1999, he was the president of CJSC "Trading House of Bank Ukraine". In 1999-2000 Pashynskyi was a Deputy Chairman of the Board of the ''

Oschadbank The State Savings Bank of Ukraine, or Oschadbank ( uk, Ощадбанк), is a public joint-stock company based in Ukraine. It was established by Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on May 21, 1999, through the transformation of its pr ...

''.

Politics

In the

2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 31 March 2002. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1976 The Our Ukraine bloc emerged as the largest faction in the Verkhovna Rada, winning 111 of the 447 seats ...

, Pashynskyi ran for the Verkhovna Rada from the bloc of political parties "Against All", No. 12 in the electoral list. His candidacy was withdrawn. In November 2002, the

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charged Serhiy Pashynskyi with

embezzlement Embezzlement is a crime that consists of withholding assets for the purpose of conversion of such assets, by one or more persons to whom the assets were entrusted, either to be held or to be used for specific purposes. Embezzlement is a type ...

of USD 4 million committed in 1999-2000. Pashynskyi was also charged with fraudulent transactions in obtaining

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s from banks. On 30 November 2002, Kyiv's Pechersky District Court authorized the detention of Pashynskyi. He was arrested on suspicion of embezzlement of funds of the

, which were intended to compensate for Soviet deposits of Ukrainian citizens older 80 years. The charges were brought under art. 191, part 5, and art. 222, part 2 of the

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(misappropriation of another's property in especially large amounts through abuse of official position; fraud). On 6 February 2003, the Kyiv Court of Appeal released Pashynskyi on his own recognizance. According to Ukrainian media, Yulia Tymoshenko personally arrived at the

Lukyanivska Prison Lukianivska Prison ( uk, Лук'янівська в'язниця, transliterated: "Luk'janivsjka v'jaznitsja") is a famous historical prison in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, located in the central Lukianivka neighborhood of the city. It is officially ...

to take Pashynskyi out. In November 2002, Pashynskyi was placed in a detention facility. He was released in 2003. In 2004, the new administration of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine dropped the charges against Pashynskyi. During the second round of presidential elections in 2004 and the

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, Serhiy Pashynskyi worked for the candidate Victor Yushchenko in the electoral district No. 66 in Zhytomyr Oblast. The result of his work was the largest increase of votes for Yushchenko between the first and second round of elections among the regions of central and western Ukraine. From February to 2005, he was the advisor to the

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Yulia Tymoshenko Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko ( uk, Юлія Володимирівна Тимошенко, ; Hrihyan (); The Prime Minister designated Pashynkyi as general director of the State enterprise "Ukrreserv" and from August 2005 till January 2006 he worked actively on overcoming the crisis situation in food markets. He was a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the

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, and

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convocations. From 5 March to 10 June 2014, Serhiy Pashynskyi was acting Head of the

. According to the Interrogation Report of the former Minister of Defense of Ukraine

Ihor Tenyukh Ihor Yosypovych Tenyukh ( uk, Ігор Йосипович Тенюх; born 23 May 1958) is a former Ukrainian admiral and member of the nationalist Svoboda political party. He was the commander of the Ukrainian Navy from 2006 until 2010 when d ...

, on 23 March 2014, at the initiative of Serhiy Pashynskyi and the former head of the National Guard

Stepan Poltorak Stepan Tymofiyovych Poltorak ( uk, Степан Тимофійович Полторак) is a Ukrainian general who served as the Minister of Defence of Ukraine from 14 October 2014 until 29 August 2019. Previously he was the commander of the In ...

, a meeting of the NSDC was held. During the meeting, a final decision on the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the

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without resistance to the

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was made. After the election of Petro Poroshenko as the President of Ukraine, Pashynskyi returned to the Verkhovna Rada. In January 2015, Pashynskyi initiated the restriction of photo and video recording of meetings of the conciliatory council of the heads of the parliamentary factions and committees of the Verkhovna Rada. Pashynskyi said he does not want the meetings turn into "political talk shows." At the same time he supported audio fixation and called for the creation of regulations for the statements of the leaders of the factions and committees. From 2014 to 6 October 2016, he was the head of the supervisory board of the State Concern

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. According to the report of the

National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine ( uk, Національне Антикорупційне Бюро України, ''НАБУ'') or NABU is a Ukrainian law enforcement anti-corruption agency which investigates corruption in Ukraine ...

, the company has developed a strong corruption system. Thanks to that system, officials at Ukroboronprom siphoned off funds from a $39 million contract to supply details for

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aircraft to the

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. On 1 November 2018, Serhiy Pashynskyi was included in the Russian sanctions list in connection with Ukraine’s unfriendly actions towards citizens and legal entities of the Russian Federation. In the

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he lost his parliamentary seat after losing his constituency.

Controversies

Corporate raid of Zhytomyr confectionery factory

On 27 November 2015, the ''

ZhL Zhytomyr confectionery ("ZhL"), also referred to as "ALC ZhL," is a part of Confectionery Factory ZhL Group, a Ukrainian manufacturer of confectionery products. The factory was founded in 1994. ALC ZhL is the successor of CJSC (“Zhytomyrski La ...

'',

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(previously - ''Zhytomyrsʹki lasoshchi'',

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) announced the upcoming raider seizure of the enterprise. Member of the supervisory board of the company, Denis Dolinsky, stated: "People’s deputy Serhiy Pashynskyi and his business partner Serhiy Tyshchenko are preparing an attempt to raider seizureof the Zhytomyr confectionery factory. A corresponding illegal court decision was received by the judge of the

Ternopil Ternópil ( uk, Тернопіль, Ternopil' ; pl, Tarnopol; yi, טאַרנאָפּל, Tarnopl, or ; he, טארנופול (טַרְנוֹפּוֹל), Tarnopol; german: Tarnopol) is a city in the west of Ukraine. Administratively, Ternopi ...

District Administrative Court N.I. Khodachkevich. This is not Pashinsky’s first attempt to seize the factory." The company asked the authorities to help sort out the situation. Three days later, on 30 November, buses with so-called ''

titushky The Titushky (plural; uk, тітушки, russian: титушки) were mercenary agents in Ukraine who supported the Ukrainian security services during the administration of Viktor Yanukovych, often posing as street hooligans in sports clothin ...

'' arrived at the factory - it was a group of 200 sports people who were tasked to seize the enterprise by force.

launched an investigation into this case. On the night of 5 January 2016, the police detained 134 people who staged a mass brawl with shots near the enterprise. The president of the company, Ihor Boyko, also accused Pashynskyi and Tyshchenko of this attempt of a corporate raid.

Confrontation with Transparency International

On 16 July 2016, the head of the Ukrainian branch of the

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, Andriy Marusov, was attacked twice by unknown persons, as a result a laptop with archive data was stolen. Marusov stated that these events were not an accident, since the attackers addressed him by name. He linked the robbery to recent statements by the Chief Military Prosecutor of Ukraine Anatolii Matios and deputies close to Serhiy Pashynskyi who accused member of the board of Transparency International Ukraine, Vitaly Kasko, of “allegedly slowing down the investigation of erhiyKurchenko’s corruption.” In July 2017, Transparency International appealed for Serhiy Pashynskyi to refute false statements about failure of defense contracts. Earlier, TI demanded to disclose a Court decision, on the basis of which USD 1.5 billion were confiscated to the budget of Ukraine. This money was allegedly arrested on the accounts of former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and his entourage.

Purchase of military equipment

In April 2018, the website "NV" published an investigation in which it was claimed that the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine was involved in the allegedly inflated prices of outdated

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(produced in the 1980s) from the

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company "Wtorplast", which received this equipment in the

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. It was claimed without evidence that Serhiy Pashynskyi and the first deputy secretary of the

Oleg Gladkovskiy were involved in this.

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in an interview with the

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said that ''“The information is not true, because the Ministry of Defense bought military vehicles for $169,000. According the information I read in the magazine, there was about $205,000”''. Representatives of the Polish supplier company came to the parliamentary hearings on the mentioned issue for explanations, but the editor-in-chief of the website "NV" Vitaly Sych did not appear despite the invitation. Serhiy Pashynskyi and the Wtorplast company announced lawsuits against "NV" due to the damages caused by the publication.

Criminal prosecution

Oschadbank case

In November 2002, the

accused Serhiy Pashynskyi of stealing $4 million in 1999-2000, as well as committing fraudulent transactions in obtaining loans from other banks. On 30 November 2002, the Pechersky court of

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

, within the framework of the criminal case, issued a sanction for taking Pashynskyi into custody. He was arrested on suspicion of embezzling the funds of '' Sberbank of Ukraine'', intended to compensate

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deposits to citizens who have reached the age of 80. Charges were raised under article 191, part 5, and article 222, part 2 of the

(appropriation of someone else's property in especially large amounts by abuse of office; fraud). On 6 February 2003, the Appeal Court of Kyiv released Pashynskyi under a restriction of travel order. According to the ''

Ukrayinska Pravda ''Ukrainska Pravda'' ( uk, Українська правда, lit=Ukrainian Truth) is a Ukrainian online newspaper founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000 (the day of the Ukrainian constitutional referendum). Published mainly in Ukra ...

'',

Yulia Tymoshenko Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko ( uk, Юлія Володимирівна Тимошенко, ; Hrihyan ();Lukyanivska Prison Lukianivska Prison ( uk, Лук'янівська в'язниця, transliterated: "Luk'janivsjka v'jaznitsja") is a famous historical prison in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, located in the central Lukianivka neighborhood of the city. It is officially ...

to take out Pashynskyi, whom the investigation allegedly wanted to re-arrest.

New Year's Eve shooting (2016–2017)

On New Year's Eve from 2016 to 2017 Serhiy Pashynskyi shot in the foot of a resident of the Kyiv's suburb Vyacheslav Khimikus. According to the deputy, he defended himself. Vyacheslav Khimikus claims that he struck the deputy with a bottle on the head after he sent the weapon to him. From a shot made with a distance of 15 cm, gun powder burn remained on the leg of Khimikus. In addition, Pashynskyi didn't fired a warning shot. The surgerist who operated Khimikus confirmed that the shooting was done from the top down, because the bone fragments were displaced down from the pelvis. On 26 July 2017, the Prosecutor General's Office closed the case against Serhiy Pashynskyi, but on 13 December, Pechersky District Court of Kyiv ordered the resumption of the investigation into the criminal proceedings. The court recognized the decision of the investigator of the Prosecutor General as unlawful and quashed it. In May 2018, Pechersky Court ordered the Prosecutor General to investigate the disappearance of the video from the scene. On 29 May 2018, the GPU recognized the fact of the manipulation of video and entered information on this case into the ''Unified register of pre-trial investigations''. In October 2019 the

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opened an investigated into Pashynskyi for allegedly "causing grievous bodily harm to a citizen" during a shooting incident in 2016 in which Pashynskyi shot a man in the leg after allegedly being attacked by him (the person shot claimed it was vice-versa). On 7 October 2019, Pechersky District Court of Kyiv decided to detain Pashynskyi until 4 December 2019 (without bail). On 18 October, Court of Appeal upheld the decision to detain the former deputy. On 18 March 2021 the

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Court of

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acquitted Pashynskyi of the charge (of inflicting grievous bodily harm on Khimikus).

Awards

Serhiy Pashynskyi has two award weapons -

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19 pistol (28 March 2014) and

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-224 assault rifle (copy of

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21) (14 October 2014).

Earnings

In 2017, Serhiy Pashynskyi declared a salary in the Verkhovna Rada of ₴239,973, compensation for the fulfilling deputy powers (₴252,825), a 2011 Mercedes-Benz S500 4Matic and 2007 Mercedes-Benz GL 450 4Matic, as well as the trailer for the Tracker Targa boats and the Targa 175 WT boat. He indicated in an electronic declaration a collection of 15 paintings and watches by Breguet and

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. As a People's Deputy, he received interest on deposits in ''Afbox Bank'' for a total of ₴111,753. Pashynskyi also had ₴1.7 million,

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120,000, and €90,000 in cash. In 2015, Pashinsky lent ₴3.5 million from Dmytro Oliynyk.

Personal life

Serhiy Pashynskyi is married to Ruslana, couple has two sons. The son of a politician, Anton Pashynskyi, is a graduate of the

Kyiv National Economic University The Kyiv National Economic University ( uk, Київський національний економічний університет імені Вадима Гетьмана, lit=Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economic University) is a self-govern ...

, a master's degree in international economics, and a serviceman of the

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. Head of the " SpetsTechnoExport" department — the second-largest Ukrainian state-owned foreign trade enterprise by turnover, which specializes in export and import of military and dual-purpose products and services globally, as well as on promoting innovations and military-technical cooperation, incorporated to the State Concern

References

External links

Serhiy Pashynskyi at Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine official web-site
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