Oleksandr Lavrynovych

Supreme Council of Justice ChairpersonIn office
July 02, 2013 – April 10, 2014Preceded byVolodymyr KolechnychenkoSucceeded byIhor Benedysyuk12th Minister of Justice of UkraineIn office
March 11, 2010 – July 02, 2013Prime MinisterMykola AzarovPreceded byMykola OnishchukSucceeded byOlena LukashIn office
January 11, 2006 – December 18, 2007Preceded byRoman Zvarych^[1][2]Succeeded byMykola OnishchukIn office
November 21, 2002 – January 5, 2005Prime MinisterAnatoliy Kinakh
Viktor YanukovychPreceded bySyuzanna StanikSucceeded byRoman ZvarychFirst Deputy Chairman of
the Verkhovna RadaIn office
September 2, 2008 – March 11, 2010Preceded byAdam MartynyukSucceeded byAdam Martynyuk2nd convocationIn office
May 11, 1994 – May 12, 1998DeputyPeople's Deputy of UkraineConstituencyPeople's Movement of Ukraine, Lviv Oblast, District No.274^[3]3rd convocationIn office
May 12, 1998 – October 18, 2001ConstituencyPeople's Movement of Ukraine, Lviv Oblast, No.121^[4]6th convocationIn office
November 23, 2007 – March 11, 2010ConstituencyIndependent, No.67^[5]7th convocationIn office
December 12, 2012 – December 25, 2012ConstituencyParty of Regions, No.12^[6] Personal detailsBorn (1956-06-28) June 28, 1956 (age 67)
Ovruch, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine)Political partyUnaffiliatedOther political
affiliationsPeople's Movement of UkraineSpouseSvitlana Hryhorivna (b. 1956)^[7]ChildrenMaksym (b. 1978), Vitaliy (b. 1983)^[7]Alma materKyiv University (1978)
Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (1987)
Yaroslav the Wise Law Academy (1998)
Institute of State and Law (2001)OccupationPensioner

Oleksandr Volodymyrovych Lavrynovych (Ukrainian: Олександр Володимирович Лавринович; born June 28, 1956) is a Ukrainian physicist, lawyer, politician, former member of the Supreme Council of Justice of Ukraine, a former Ukrainian member of parliament and former Minister of Justice of Ukraine.^[8] He is a Merited Jurist of Ukraine (2003). He was one of the founders of the first democratic party in Ukraine in 1989 – People's Movement of Ukraine and considered to be one of the "fathers" of the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union.^{[citation needed]}

Biography

After graduating from the Taras Shevchenko National University in 1978, Lavrynovych worked in the NAN Ukrainian SSR. In 1981–1984, he served in military (chief of radar station). From 1989 till 1998, Lavrynovych was one of the leaders of People's Movement of Ukraine.^[9] From 1990 till 1994, he was a member of the Central Election Commission of Ukraine and its First Deputy Chairman in 1991–1994.^[9]

From 1998 till 2001, he was a People's Deputy of Ukraine for People's Movement of Ukraine parliamentary faction, surrendering his deputy mandate early.^[9] In 2002, Lavrynovych was elected to parliament on the Our Ukraine party list, but refused to be registered. In May 2002, Lavrynovych was appointed as Justice Minister in the Kinakh Government.^[8] In the First Yanukovych Government (2002–2005) he was also Minister of Justice of Ukraine.^[9] After a short intermezzo as Deputy Chairman of the Board of "Ukrnafta" (2005–2006) Lavrynovych returned to national politics in August 2006 as First Deputy Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in the Second Yanukovych Government.^[9] But he soon moved to the post Minister of Justice of Ukraine again (from 1 November 2006 till 18 December 2007).^[9] In the 2007 parliamentary election he was elected Deputy of Ukraine for Party of Regions.^[9] From the dismissal of Arseniy Yatsenyuk till the election of Volodymyr Lytvyn as Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Oleksandr Lavrynovych assumed the position as acting chairman from November 12, 2008^[10] till December 9, 2008.^[11][12] The Verkhovna Rada refused to include in its agenda an issue concerning dismissal of its first Vice Speaker Lavrynovych on November 17, 2009.^[13] Starting 11 March 2010, Lavrynovych became Justice Minister again.^[8] On 2 July, he was elected as member of the Supreme Council of Justice of Ukraine.^[14] Olena Lukash replaced Lavrynovych as Justice Minister 2 days later.^[15] On April 10, 2014, Oleksandr Lavrynovych resigned from his position with Supreme Council of Justice. Since that time he is acting as legal expert and holds the position with the Board of Institute for Legal Society, a Non-governmental organization.

On 13 July 2015, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office announced that Lavrynovych was suspected of embezzling public funds worth more than 8.5 million Hryvnia.^[16] It said these funds were used to finance foreign law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (USA) that helped to win the court case in the European Court of Human Rights by the State of Ukraine and at the same time "to conceal evidence of criminal violations of the law by Ukrainian state law enforcement agencies and the courts" during the 2011 trial of Yulia Tymoshenko.^[16]

In March 2016, Ukrainian court released Lavrynovych from any restrictions of Prosecutor's office.

Awards

• Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise (5th degree)
• Order of Merit (2nd degree)^[17]
• Order of Merit (3rd degree), for active participation in organizing and conducting the 1991 Ukrainian independence referendum^[18]

References

External links

• Website of a law firm headed by Lavrynovych son "Lavrynovych and Partners"

Political offices
Preceded by Syuzanna Stanik	Minister of Justice of Ukraine 2002–2005	Succeeded by Roman Zvarych
Preceded by Roman Zvarych	Minister of Justice of Ukraine 2006–2007	Succeeded by Mykola Onischuk
Preceded by Arseniy Yatsenyuk	Acting Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada 2008	Succeeded by Volodymyr Lytvyn
Preceded by Mykola Onishchuk	Minister of Justice of Ukraine 2010–2013	Succeeded by Olena Lukash