Valeriy Voshchevsky
Ukrainian entrepreneur and politician (born 1956)
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Valeriy Mykolayovych Voshchevsky (Ukrainian: Валерій Миколайович Вощевський; born June 12, 1956) is a Ukrainian entrepreneur and politician who served as Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine from December 2014 until September 2015.
Ukrainian Peasant Democratic Party (2000–2008)
Valeriy Voshchevsky Валерій Вощевський | |
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| Vice Prime Minister (infrastructure, ecology, construction) | |
| In office 2 December 2014 – 17 September 2015 | |
| Prime Minister | Arseniy Yatsenyuk |
| Preceded by | Oleksandr Sych |
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| Born | 12 June 1956[1] |
| Party | Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko (2014–present) Ukrainian Peasant Democratic Party (2000–2008) |
| Alma mater | Kyiv National Economic University[1] All-Russian Academy of Foreign Trade[1] |
Biography
Voshchevsky started his career as a Chernobyl disaster cleaner in 1991.[1] He then had several jobs that lead to him heading in 1995 the corporation "Ahronaftoprodukt".[1] In 2001 he became one of Agribusiness lobbyists in government, joining the Coordinating Council of the agricultural sector under the Kinakh Government.[1] In 2002 he was appointed deputy head of the Department of internal policy of Presidential Administration Leonid Kuchma.[1] In 2003 he held the position of First Deputy Minister of Economy and European Integration under Valery Khoroshkovsky.[1] In 2000, Voschevsky became head of the Ukrainian Peasant Democratic Party; he held this post until 2008.[1]
In the 2002 parliamentary elections, Voshchevsky was fifth on the election list of the electoral alliance Team of Winter Generation.[2] The alliance won 2.0% of the popular vote and no seats.[3] In the parliamentary elections of 2006, as a part of Lytvyn's People's Bloc", and in 2007, in the Peasants' Bloc "Agrarian Ukraine", he again failed to gain a parliamentary seat.[1] From 2005 to 2006 and from 2008 to 2010 Voschevsky was chairman of the Board of JSC "SSC" Roads of Ukraine ".[1] Voshchevsky headed the road construction and maintenance agency under former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich in March and April 2010.[1][4]
In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, he was elected to parliament at number 8 in the list of the Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko.[1] In parliament he became deputy head of the faction.[1] At the time he was chairman of the Supervisory Board of OJSC "Chernihiv confectionery factory" Strela ".[1] Voshchevsky became Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine supervising national ecology, infrastructure and construction for Radical Party in the second Yatsenyuk Government on 2 December 2014.[5][6]
Radical Party left the coalition on 1 September 2015 in protest over a vote in parliament involving a change to the Ukrainian Constitution that would lead to decentralization and greater powers for areas held by pro-Russian separatists.[7] The same day Voshchevsky tendered in his resignation.[6] Parliament accepted the resignation on 17 September 2015; after failing to pass the motion four times on 15 September 2015.[6]
Paradise Papers
Voshchevsky's showed in the Paradise Papers release as the majority shareholder of a Maltese company, Marfa Holding Ltd.[8]