Valeriy Ivaschenko

Valery Wolodymyrowitsch Ivashchenko (Ukrainian Валерій Володимирович Іващенко; born July 30, 1956 in Zaporizhia ) is a Ukrainian politician. He was, until June 2009, Deputy Minister of Defence between October 2007 and President dated 5 June 2009 to March 2010 Minister of Defence of the country.

Ivashchenko completed his engineering studies at the Academy of Military Moschaiski space in Leningrad. His service in the Soviet Army, he graduated at the Cosmodrome in Baikonur, among others. Since 1993 he worked in the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. 2005 appointed him President Viktor Yushchenko appointed deputy head of the department security and defense policy of the Ukrainian President. 2007 Ivashchenko was appointed deputy defense minister. After Minister Yuri Yekhanurov had been relieved of his duties by the Ukrainian Parliament on 5 June 2009, Ivashchenko officiated until March 2010 as the Minister of Defense.

In August 2010 Ivashchenko was arrested. The Ukrainian military prosecutor accused him of abuse of office before in connection with the renovation of a government ship repair facility in Feodosiya. On April 12, 2012, he was sentenced by a district court in Kiev to five years' imprisonment. The U.S. and the European Union criticized the verdict and spoke of " selective justice ". A mission of the European Parliament under the leadership of former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski had examined several processes and sentences in Ukraine ( among other things against Ivashchenko and against Yulia Tymoshenko and Yuriy Lutsenko ) in the summer of 2012, and it lashed out at the Ukrainian judiciary. On August 14, 2012, a court of appeal Iwaschtschenkos mitigated punishment into a one-year prison sentence, which was suspended.

Ivashchenko sat down to Denmark from, in February 2013 he declared that the Danish Government had him and his wife granted Political asylum.