Iryna Valentinivna Venediktova

Position:

Part-time Ambassador of Ukraine to Switzerland and Liechtenstein, Prosecutor General of Ukraine (2020—2022)

Date and place of birth: 

September 21, 1978, Kharkiv

Information about relatives:

The husband is Denys Kolesnyk, deputy head of the cyber police department of the National Police. Venediktova's husband was transferred from Kharkiv and promoted to deputy head of the cyber police department shortly after she was elected a People's Deputy of Ukraine and received the position of head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Legal Policy. He was also promoted to the rank of colonel

Education:

In 2000, she graduated from the Kharkiv University of Internal Affairs  

Information about work (when, where he worked, in what positions):

From 2000 to 2004, she was a teacher at the Department of Jurisprudence of the Kharkiv Humanitarian Institute of the People's Ukrainian Academy.

2004 — Associate Professor of the Department of Justice of Kharkiv National University named after Karazin.

2005-2019 — Head of the Department of Civil and Legal Disciplines of Kharkiv University named after V. N. Karazina.

2016-2019 — member of the Scientific Advisory Council at the Supreme Court

In 2018, she was an adviser to Volodymyr Zelenskyi on legal issues. She was a member of the campaign staff of the candidate for the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, and was an expert on the reform of the judicial system.

On July 21, 2019, she was elected a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 9th convocation on the list of the pro-presidential party "Servant of the People".

August 29, 2019 – Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Policy.

December 27, 2019 - acting Director of the State Bureau of Investigation.

Since March 13, 2020, he has been a member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

On March 17, 2020, Iryna Venediktova was appointed Prosecutor General.

Involvement in one of the cases (which case, position at the time of involvement):

Interferes with the courts to establish manual control over the justice system. Covers the Deputy Head of the Office of the President Oleg Tatarov. Supervises the prosecution of Serhiy Sternenko. Manual courts have been pushing the fabricated Sheremet case for more than a year, as a result of which representatives of the patriotic community, veterans and volunteers are being persecuted.

Advocates the repeal of the law that prevents the prosecution of participants in the Revolution of Dignity

Cooperates with Yanukovych's entourage. In particular, she appointed Oleksandr Babikov, the former lawyer of the fugitive president, as her first deputy.

The Sheremet case is the baseless accusation of Andrii Antonenko, Yulia Kuzmenko, and Yana Dugar for the murder of journalist Pavlo Sheremet. Despite the lack of evidence, Andrii Antonenko has been illegally detained for over a year, Yuliya Kuzmenko is under house arrest, and Yana Dugar is on bail.

The Sternenko case - demanded that activist Serhiy Sternenko be charged with murder for self-defense during an attack on an activist. The courts continue to proceed with the case without sufficient evidence.

After the resignation of Ruslan Ryaboshapka and taking office, he continues to play along with the investigation in his efforts to apply procedural coercion measures to Andrii Antonenko, Yulia Kuzmenko and Yana Dugar in any way.

Also responsible for the persecution of Sternenko, Tamarin, Demidov, Kapli.

Violation of legislation within the framework of the case:

According to unofficial information, for a long time she blocked the change of the preventive measure against Antonenko and influenced the conviction of Sternenko.

Involvement in other cases that had public resonance (in which case was noticed, status within this case, year, month):

Covered the scandalous judge Pavel Vovka. After serving him with the suspicion, she did not apply to the High Council of Justice for removal and the selection of a preventive measure. Venediktova ignored appeals from NABU and SAP on this issue.

Appointed to the position of chief prosecutor of Kyiv Oleg Kiper. Previously, he fell under the law on lustration, because he headed the prosecutor's office during Yanukovych's time, but in 2019 the District Administrative Court of Kyiv recognized Kiper's lustration as groundless.