Vitaliy Zakharchenko

Vitaly Jurijowytsch Sachartschenko (Ukrainian Віталій Юрійович Захарченко; born January 20, 1963 in Kostjantyniwka, Donetsk Oblast ) is a Ukrainian politician, he was Interior Minister of Ukraine since 2011 to November 7. On February 21, 2014, the Verkhovna Rada decided to suspend him from this office.

Sachartschenko graduated in the 1980s trained as a police officer at the College of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR. In independent Ukraine, he obtained a PhD in Public Administration at the National Academy of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry and a master's degree at the University of Poltava.

Since May 2008 Sachartschenko was head of the tax authority of the Poltava Oblast. On 25 December 2010 he was appointed head of the State Tax Administration of Ukraine. November 7, 2011 President Viktor Yanukovych appointed him Minister of the Interior of Ukraine in the succession of Anatoly Mohiljow.

Sachartschenko was blamed for the controversial police actions against demonstrators in Kiev under the Euromaidan, various Ukrainian politicians called for his resignation in early 2014, as well as a criminal investigation against him. On 21 February 2014, the Ukrainian Parliament approved the immediate suspension Sachartschenkos from his office. On February 22, 2014 arsenic Awakow was appointed by Parliament to the Executive Secretary of the Interior of Ukraine, he belongs to the party homeland of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on. On February 28, 2014, the assets of a number of followers of the deposed President Yanukovych in Austria and Switzerland were closed, including the accounts of Sachartschenko. According to reports from the Ukrainian media, Sachartschenko holds since the end of February 2014, in Russia.