Mykola Kucher
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Mykola Kucher | |
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Микола Кучер | |
 Official portrait, 2019 | |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| Assumed office 27 November 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Hryhoriy Zabolotnyi |
| Constituency | Vinnytsia Oblast, No. 17 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 July 1959 |
| Party | Independent |
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Mykola Ivanovych Kucher (Ukrainian: Микола Іванович Кучер; born 24 August 1959) is a Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur. Since 26 November 2014, he has been serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine.[1]
In 1981, he graduated from the Ukrainian Agricultural Academy with a degree in agronomy.
Career
- 1981 – the main agronomist of collective farm, Trostianchyk village, Trostianets Raion
- 1989–1992 – chair of Trostianets regional agro-industrial corporation
- 1992–1994 – director of agricultural and food management of Trostianets regional administration
- 1994–1995 – deputy manager of agriculture and food management of Vinnytsia Oblast government
- 1995–1999 – Head of Department managing Vinnytsia oblast administration
- 1999–2000 – Head of department deputy manager Ukraine's Bread (Kyiv)
- 2000–2002 – first deputy manager Bread of Ukraine
- 2002–2004 – chairman of the board of directors of Bread of Ukraine
- 2004–2013 – director of Grain Product MHP
- Since 2013 — Department director Mironivsky Hliboproduct
Political career
- Since 2010 — Deputy of Vinnytsia Oblast Council (Ukrainian People's Party).
In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Kucher won electoral district No. 17 (Vinnytsia Oblast) as an independent candidate with 47.64%.[2]
- 27 November 2014– — member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on agriculture policy and land relations and member of faction of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity"[3]
In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Kucher was re-elected in single-seat constituency 17 again as an independent candidate with 34.97% of the votes.[4][5]
In December 2018, he sent a request–the court–take on bail the former acting Myroslav Prodan, head of the Fiscal Service of Ukraine (suspected of illegal enrichment of UAH 89 million in 2016–2018).[6]
Private life
He is married, with two children. In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Kucher's daughter Larysa Bilozir was elected in single-seat constituency 15.[4]