Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi
Valery Iwanowytsch Khoroshkovskyi (Ukrainian Валерій Іванович Хорошковський, born January 1, 1969 in Kiev) is a Ukrainian managers, media entrepreneur and politician. From March 2010 to January 2012 he was head of the Ukrainian domestic intelligence SBU. After he was first appointed on 18 January 2012 as the Minister of Finance of Ukraine, he was from 14 February to 14 December 2012, First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine. Until his retirement from the Ukrainian government in late 2012, he was considered one of the most influential people of the country.
Khoroshkovskyi graduated in Law from the Taras Shevchenko University in Kiev. In the following years he worked as first as an entrepreneur and investor. In 1998 he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada, where he again lost his parliamentary seat in the elections in 2002.
In December 2002, the then Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych appointed him Minister of Economy of Ukraine. After disputes over the future economic course of the country he joined in January 2004 by this office back. After his resignation from the office of the minister, he became a vice president and later president of the steel company Evraz. In 2005, he acquired the majority of the influential Ukrainian media company " Intermedia " and built in the years that followed the TV channel "Inter" for Greatest TV from Ukraine. In this context Khoroshkovskyi was repeatedly accused to seek a dominant market position and competitors want to displace.
Khoroshkovskyi was a member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine in 2006 and was from December 2007 to May 2009, the chairman of the customs services of Ukraine. At that time he was considered a confidant of former President Viktor Yushchenko and as an opponent of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
In March 2010, the newly elected President Yanukovych appointed him head of the Ukrainian domestic intelligence SBU. Khoroshkovskyi was repeatedly accused in his tenure to use this position to exert pressure on government critics and journalists to represent the interests of his media holding company. He stated in this connection that he had his influence on the editorial policy of "Inter" abandoned, where he remained the owner of the media holding company, however, announced to want to sell his shares. On February 1, 2013 Khoroshkovskyi sold him the shares belonging to the Inter Media Group Limited at the influential businessman Dmytro Firtash. On the circumstances and background of this transaction has been speculation in the Ukrainian media.
On January 19, 2012 Khoroshkovskyi was first appointed Minister of Finance of Ukraine and relieved of his position as head of the SBU. Already on 14 February 2012 he was appointed Yanukovych then First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, in this office he solved Andrij Kliuev from. As part of the reshuffle of the Cabinet in December 2012 after the parliamentary elections Khoroshkovskyi announced his resignation from the government in protest against the re-appointment of Mykola Azarov as prime minister. According to media reports Khoroshkovskyi most of his time after his departure from the government in France or in Monaco.