Svyatoslav Mykhaylovych Piskun (, born 1 March 1959) was 3 times
Prosecutor General of Ukraine.
He served in this role in 2002–2003, 2005 and 2007 until
President Viktor Yushchenko's dismissed Piskun on 24 May 2007.
He worked as a prosecutor in several important cases, including murder of
Georgiy Gongadze and investigation of
United Energy Systems of Ukraine.
Political career
In March 2006 he was
elected as a people's deputy of the
Verkhovna Rada
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from
Party of Regions
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list as No.96 – but he was not a party member.
Piskun was elected in parliament for Party of Regions
again in 2007.
[ He became a full member of Party of Regions in October 2008.]2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election
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Khoroshkovskyi tried to return to national politics this time from the party of Strong Ukraine (placing 16th on the parties election list). But in the election the party failed to clear the 5% election threshold (it got 3.11% of the votes) and thus Piskun was not elected into parliament.
Central Election Commission of Ukraine
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had refused to register him because in the last 5 years leading up to the election he had not lived in Ukraine.
Dismissals as Prosecutor General of Ukraine
According to Piskun, his dismissal by President Yushchenko in October 2005 came because he stopped criminal proceedings against Yulia Tymoshenko and refused to drop proceedings against Petro Poroshenko. He was criticized for closing the criminal case related to the United Energy Systems of Ukraine while serving under Viktor Yushchenko's government in 2005. and dropping criminal cases regarding back-then Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
Piskun is the only Prosecutor General of Ukraine in Ukraine whose dismissals by two Presidents have been overturned as unlawful by courts.[ but Piskun did not submit any application for his reinstating on the post of Prosecutor General.]
Career since 2014
On 30 March 2014 during an interview with Inter TV channel he called for the criminal prosecution of Ukrainian officials who are responsible for allowing the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea.[Venediktov took Piskun as an adviser](_blank)
Ukrayinska Pravda (30 July 2020) On 25 August 2020 Venediktova (without communicating the reason) realised him as her personal adviser.[Venediktova released Piskun]
Ukrayinska Pravda (25 August 2020)
References
External links
CLAN of Yanukovich: PISKUN
Interview with Svyatoslav Piskun
on Image.ua
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1959 births
Living people
People from Berdychiv
Jewish Ukrainian politicians
Party of Regions politicians
Strong Ukraine politicians
Fifth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
Sixth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
General Prosecutors of Ukraine
University of Lviv alumni