Svyatoslav Piskun | |
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Святослав Піскун | |
Prosecutor General of Ukraine | |
In office 26 April 2007 – 24 May 2007 | |
President | Viktor Yushchenko |
Preceded by | Oleksandr Medvedko |
Succeeded by | Viktor Shemchuk (acting) |
In office 10 December 2004 – 14 October 2005 | |
President | Viktor Yushchenko |
Preceded by | Hennadiy Vasylyev |
Succeeded by | Oleksandr Medvedko |
In office 6 July 2002 – 29 October 2003 | |
President | Leonid Kuchma |
Preceded by | Mykhailo Potebenko |
Succeeded by | Hennadiy Vasylyev |
Personal details | |
Born | Berdychiv, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | 8 March 1959
Political party | Independent |
Other political affiliations | Party of Regions (2006–2007) |
Spouse | Svitlana Sevast'yanivna (1962) |
Children | Tetyana (1983), Svyatoslav (2000) |
Residence(s) | Kyiv, Ukraine |
Alma mater | Lviv University |
Svyatoslav Mykhaylovych Piskun (Ukrainian: Святослав Михайлович Піскун, born 1 March 1959) was 3 times Prosecutor General of Ukraine.[1] He served in this role in 2002–2003, 2005 and 2007 until President Viktor Yushchenko's dismissed Piskun on 24 May 2007.[2] He worked as a prosecutor in several important cases, including murder of Georgiy Gongadze and investigation of United Energy Systems of Ukraine.
In March 2006 he was elected as a people's deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from Party of Regions list as No.96 – but he was not a party member.[3] Piskun was elected in parliament for Party of Regions again in 2007.[4] He became a full member of Party of Regions in October 2008.[4] Piskun did not return to parliament after the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election after losing in single-member districts number 63 (first-past-the-post wins a parliament seat) located in Zhytomyr Oblast.[5] In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Khoroshkovskyi tried to return to national politics this time from the party of Strong Ukraine (placing 16th on the parties election list).[6][7] 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.[8] Piskun was only allowed to take part in the election after a court decision validated his entrance in the election, at first the Central Election Commission of Ukraine had refused to register him because in the last 5 years leading up to the election he had not lived in Ukraine.[9]
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.[10] 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.[11] and dropping criminal cases regarding back-then Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.[12]
Piskun is the only Prosecutor General of Ukraine in Ukraine whose dismissals by two Presidents have been overturned as unlawful by courts.[13] The latest being a 24 April 2009 Kyiv Court of Appeals passing of a ruling saying President Yushchenko's decree dated 24 May 2007, dismissing Sviatoslav Piskun from the post of the prosecutor general was unlawful,[2][14] but Piskun did not submit any application for his reinstating on the post of Prosecutor General.[14]
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.[15][16]
On 30 July 2020 Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova appointed Piskun as her personal adviser on a voluntary basis.[17] On 25 August 2020 Venediktova (without communicating the reason) realised him as her personal adviser.[1]