The President of Ukraine dismissed the Prosecutor General for a large number of traitors in the department. Now Venediktova is being tipped off for diplomatic work, which is similar to the evacuation of Ukrainian officials. What is known about her?
Last Sunday the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky removed Irina Venediktova from duties of the Prosecutor General of Ukraineand then the Verkhovna Rada supported the guarantor and dismissed her.
For many observers, this decision looked unexpected, because Venediktova has known the president well since 2018 and thanks to him she made a career in the civil service.
Before the fateful acquaintance, the future Prosecutor General worked in a modest position as the head of the department of civil law disciplines of Kharkiv National University. Karazin, where she taught law and international commercial arbitration. The latter, by the way, she learned in the UK.
Since 2019, Venediktova has been a member of Zelensky’s campaign headquarters, later worked as his legal adviser, was a member of the Rada from the Servant of the People party (though only for six months), where she served as chairman of the parliamentary Committee on Legal Policy.
On December 27, 2019, Venediktova was appointed to the position of Acting Director of the State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine, an agency engaged in pre-trial investigation of criminal cases of war crimes, as well as crimes committed by senior officials and law enforcement officers.
On March 13, 2020, she joined the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, and on March 17, at an extraordinary meeting, the Verkhovna Rada appointed Venediktova to the post of Prosecutor General.
For a dial with ten white baguette diamonds with a total weight of 0.36 carats, a hand-wound in-house Swiss movement, a ceramic case, an anti-reflective sapphire crystal, and a rubber and leather strap with a stainless steel insert, sellers are asking for more than $70,000 (4.7 million rubles at the exchange rate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation for November 2018).
The watch is not mentioned in the income statement of the cybercop. It is known that in 2019 he officially earned 312,737 hryvnias (about 813 thousand rubles), which is almost six times less than the cost of the Hublot he wears. Where he got such a luxurious watch, Kolesnik did not explain.
Strana.Ua, 24.04.2020, “The husband of Prosecutor General Venediktova wears a Hublot watch with diamonds for one and a half million hryvnias”: According to the document, Kolesnik does not own any real estate, the entire family fund is registered with his wife or children (the couple is raising a daughter, Adeline, and a son, Danil – Ed.). Irina Venediktova owns an office (150 sq.m.) and a parking space in Kharkiv. The owners of the house and 15 acres of land in the city of Vysoky (Kharkiv region) are children, and the parents are only registered there. Denis does not own a car either, Irina drives the family and the Porsche Cayenne crossover (2013) is registered on it, at the time of purchase the car cost 867,311 hryvnias. As for the salary, last year he received 312,737 hryvnias in the Cyberpolice. The column “valuable movable property”, where they declare things whose value exceeds 100 living wages, established for able-bodied persons on January 1 of the reporting year (in 2019 – UAH 1,921) – is empty for both Irina and Denis. […]
Watch lovers and connoisseurs will immediately recognize the famous Classic fusion tourbillion night out model in black. […] The model is produced in a limited edition of 30 pieces as soon as an order is received. This model is no longer presented on the Hublot official website, but online stores that sell the originals offer to buy them for $54,280 or about UAH 1.5 million. at the NBU exchange rate as of April 24, 2020. […] Note that Kolesnik had to indicate such expensive watches in his declaration for previous years. If he acquired them (or was given them as a gift) this year, then he also had to reflect this on the NAPC website. — Inset K.ru
Strana.Ua, 05/01/2020, “Venediktova confirmed that her husband has a watch for $ 56 thousand, which he did not enter into the declaration”: The head of the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Irina Venediktova, confirmed that her husband Denis Kolesnik has a watch worth $56,000, which was not indicated by him in the declaration. This follows from Venediktov’s Facebook post, which she wrote today.
Venediktova later commented on the rumors that the watch was presented to her husband by the ex-people’s deputy from the BPP Alexander Granovsky (periodically there is information about the long-term acquaintance of Venediktova and Granovsky). Moreover, she commented on them, addressing Granovsky in a rather playful way (who, we recall, is a defendant in a number of criminal cases, and in Poroshenko’s time he was called “watching” the courts): “Alexander Granovsky, stop caring for my husband – I’m a jealous wife. Video with mega watches, “of which there are only 25 in the world” from 18, and Granovsky could not give them in the 20. They are broken at home – we will give them for examination, to know for sure that only he and the sheikhs have such. Note that in the declarations of 2017 and 2018, these hours also do not appear. That is, the Prosecutor General confirmed that her husband has a watch, but he did not enter them into the declaration. — Inset K.ru
The declaration also did not include the Honda CR-V SUV, on which the fighter against cybercrime traveled to work every day. As a result, it turned out that the car was issued to his 69-year-old father.
The only specified family vehicle is the prestigious Porsche Cayenne crossover, bought by Irina Venediktova in 2014 for $55,000.
The complex has already got into scandals with prosecutors. At one time, Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Renat Kuzmin and the director of Pushcha-voditsa, having forged documents, seized one hectare of land belonging to the complex worth 1.2 million hryvnias, after which the Deputy Prosecutor General registered the land as his property and sold it for 8.4 million.
When asked how the current Prosecutor General ended up on the territory of the complex, Venediktova replied that her move to Pushcha-voditsa from her house on Kruglouniversitetskaya Street was “forced and caused by security measures.” However, soon after the scandal, she moved out of the state dacha.
Liga.net, 12/11/2020, “Venediktova decided not to pay extra for renting a state dacha, paying three times cheaper: Schemes”: Attorney General Irina Venediktova decided not to make any additional payments for renting a residence in the Pushcha-Voditsa complex, despite her promises to do so. As the journalists of Schemes found out, in the end, this state-owned dacha cost her three times cheaper than the usual rent of housing from the same complex, reports Radio Liberty.
The refusal to make an additional payment at the Office of the Prosecutor General was explained by the fact that the rent was paid by Venediktova “in accordance with the calculation for the agreement on the provision of a state residence for use.” “The monthly fee for the use of the state residence is fully consistent with the arithmetic calculations of the cost of using 1 sq. M of property provided for use and the period in which Irina Venediktova used it,” the OGPU said in response to a request from the RS editors.
In the Pushcha-Voditsa complex itself, they emphasized that the Prosecutor General paid for accommodation “in the amount stipulated by the contracts for the use of the house.”
Liga.net, 10/01/2020, “Schemes: Venediktova rents a state dacha cheaper than estimated prices. Prosecutor General: If so, I’ll pay extra”: Schemes journalists stated that Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova is renting a state residence in the Pushcha-Voditsa complex of the State Administration of Affairs (GUD) at prices that are half the official estimated rent of other houses in the same complex. It is reported by Radio Liberty. As noted, the head of the Prosecutor General’s Office took advantage of the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of June 19, signed by Prime Minister Denis Shmyhal, allowing the use of state dachas and residences not only by the president, prime minister and head of the Verkhovna Rada, as it was before, but also by other citizens in the manner determined by the subject of government . As the journalists of the Schemes found out, an ordinary citizen will not be able to use this right. At the request of the Schemes, it is possible to rent a state residence or a dacha, the State Department of Administration refused – in writing and orally: “state residences cannot be leased.”
According to the lease agreement, which the Schemes received at their disposal, in July of this year, Venediktova rented a house in Pushcha-Voditsa. “The complex provides for temporary use a state residence with a total area of 675.1 sq.m., consisting of a residential building with 6 rooms and other auxiliary premises and property. The contract is valid from August 9 to September 13, 2020. the user makes monthly payments in the amount of UAH 63,990,” the lease agreement signed by Venediktova says. — Inset K.ru
