Yuriy Lutsenko
Yuri Lutsenko Witalijowytsch (Ukrainian Юрій Віталійович Луценко, scientific transliteration Yuri Vitalijovyč Lucenko; born December 14, 1964 in Rivne ) is a Ukrainian politician. He was from February 2005 to December 2006 and again from December 2007 to January 2010 Minister of Interior of Ukraine.
Life
Family background
Yuri Luzenkos father, Vitaly Lutsenko (1937-1999), was senior member of the Ukrainian section of the CPSU. At first he was First Secretary of the Regional Committee of the Communist Party in the Rivne Oblast and later in Kiev deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR and secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. Luzenkos mother, Wira Lutsenko ( b. 1936 ), is veterinarian.
Education and career
Lutsenko studied since 1982 at the Lviv Polytechnic Institute Electrical and left it - after a two-year interruption by the army service - in 1989 as engineer. After his studies he worked until 1994 in the Riwner company Gazotron.
Political career
Under President Kuchma
1994 Lutsenko was elected to the Oblastparlament of Rivne and served as its Vice Chairman. In the Oblastverwaltung he worked until 1997 in the Economic Committee.
From September 1997 to September 1998 he was called to Kiev to the Ministry of Education and Technology; then he worked as an advisor to the Prime Minister. Since 1999, Lutsenko was a close advisor to the Chairman Oleksandr Moroz SPU, bring about the resignation of the authoritarian ruling President Leonid Kuchma since December 2000 as Vice Chairman of the Ukraine without Kuchma campaign, whose goal it was. In April 2002, Lutsenko was elected for the Socialist Party of Ukraine to the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament.
After the "Orange Revolution "
On 4 February 2005, the Parliament confirmed his appointment as Minister of the Interior in the government of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Even after their failure as prime minister, he remained under the Prime Minister Yuri Yekhanurov and Viktor Yanukovych initially in office, as the Minister of the Interior is proposed in Ukraine by the President.
In July 2006, Lutsenko resigned from the Socialist Party and protested thus against their entry into a government coalition with the Party of Regions and Yanukovych the Communists. In early December 2006 he lost his position as Interior Minister and was replaced by Vasyl Zuschko. In the same year he founded the political association Narodna Samooborona ( "National self-defense ") that in the parliamentary elections in 2007, together with the Party President Yushchenko ( Nasha Ukraine Corporation ) as an election alliance Nasha Ukraine Corporation - took Narodna Samooborona (NU - NS). After the election, he sat down to reservations Yushchenko for the formation of a coalition of only two western-oriented forces NU -NS and block Yulia Tymoshenko, without the participation of the Party of Regions, a. In the government elected by Parliament on 18 December 2007 Tymoshenko he took again the post of interior minister.
As part of the government crisis of 2008, Lutsenko distanced himself from President Yushchenko and announced in possible elections with its grouping Narodna Samooborona of going on on the list of BJuT.
Airport Affair
On 5 May 2009 Lutsenko and his son was denied at the Frankfurt airport by a Lufthansa captain of the flight to Seoul because he had worked the influence of alcohol. Then Lutsenko said to have become abusive, insulting the added called police and have become violent against the officers. After it had been reported about the incident, Lutsenko offered the Ukrainian Parliament on 12 May 2009 to his resignation but stated that the representation of the incident in the media is not the truth had partially complied with. After Lutsenko was initially released by the Office of the Minister of the Interior, he then declared on May 15 that he saw himself primarily as a victim of defamation by the media and that he had filed against the Bild newspaper ad. This had reported, Lutsenko had in the incident at the airport police officer accused of being a "Nazi pigs " which is disputed by Lutsenko. After he had obtained the obligation to print a correction in the Bild newspaper before the Regional Court of Berlin, he returned to his office.
Dismissal of Interior Minister
During the 2010 presidential election Lutsenko was accused by the opposition Party of Regions, he wanted to intervene in the election and manipulate them. At a special session of the Ukrainian Parliament on 28 January 2010 Lutsenko was deposed as interior minister. The deselection request was supported by MEPs from all political groups. Only in the fraction of Blok Yulia Tymoshenko, a majority of the members to remain in the office of Interior Minister Luzenkos.
Arrest and criminal
Lutsenko was arrested in Kiev on December 26, 2010. The Attorney General accused him of embezzlement of state assets and abuse of office. So Lutsenko should have his driver provides an additional pension of 3,800 euros. Lutsenko dismissed the allegations and called the lawsuit against him as politically motivated and compared the criminal case with the repressions of the Stalin era. A week earlier Yulia Tymoshenko had already been indicted for alleged misappropriation of state funds. Although Lutsenko a medical advice indicates that, suffered from cirrhosis of the liver, the court refused to grant him a transfer to a hospital. On 27 March 2012, after 14 months in custody, Lutsenko was sentenced by a court in Kiev to four years in prison, he may also run up to 2015 for no political office. His lawyer announced that it would appeal against the verdict. Both the prison conditions and the judgment against Lutsenko were repeatedly criticized by part of the German Federal Government, in a statement by Minister of State Cornelia Pieper was, in the judgment of " selective, politically motivated justice " in Ukraine 's speech. The Ukrainian government has been urged to uphold the principles of the rule of law. The European Court of Human Rights held 3 July 2012 delivers a judgment that the Ukrainian judiciary had failed in the case against Lutsenko several times against the European Convention on Human Rights. Beginning in March 2013 declared Ukrainian President Yanukovych, he would consider a pardon Luzenkos, if this will not be released by the country's Supreme Court from custody. On April 3, 2013, the Supreme Court of Ukraine upheld the verdict against Lutsenko, only the fine imposed on him was slightly reduced. On April 7, 2013 Lutsenko was pardoned by Yanukovych and released from custody.
In an interview with Deutsche Welle on April 24, 2013, said Lutsenko, the decision of the governance release him, had been a notgedrungenes concession, which had come under pressure from the European Community and the Ukrainian opposition about. He expected the imminent release of Yulia Tymoshenko.
Supporters of Euromaidan
Lutsenko supported the claims of the Euromaidan. On January 11, 2014 he suffered in violent clashes between police and demonstrators in Kiev head injuries and had to be treated in intensive care in a hospital. According to his wife he had been beaten by police officers of the Special Berkut repeatedly on the head.