Yuriy Chmyr

Chmyr was born on 7 April 1972 in Makiivka, which was located within the Donetsk Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR at the time of his birth.^[4][5] In 1994, he graduated from the Donetsk National Technical University with a degree in mechanical engineering.^[4] Following this, he was the manager at the trade-industrial enterprise "Donahrobud" until 2000 when he became the manager at the closed joint-stock company "Rosmen", which he became the financial director of in 2002.^[4] Up until his election to the Verkhovna Rada in 2006, he was chairman of the board of "AK Svema", a company based in Shostka in Sumy Oblast.^[6]

In July 2017, the Prosecutor’s Office of Sumy Oblast notified Chmyr of suspicion under Part 1 of Art. 357, Art. 358, and Art. 366-1 of the Criminal Code.^[7] According to investigators, it was alleged following Viktor Yanukovych's departure from Ukraine, Chmyr falsely reported his passport as lost in order to obtain a replacement, and then continued to use the supposedly lost passport for notarial and property-related transactions.^[7] Prosecutors alleged that by doing so he concealed assets owrth around 40 million UAH, registering them under his daughter.^[7] The case was formally sent to court in August 2017, to which Chmyr denied using his lost passport, calling the case "absurd" and "politics".^[8] The case faced significant procedural stalling, however, as no hearings that were scheduled were held between 2017 and 2019 due to Cchmyr and his lawyers absence, and the statute of limitations was set to expire in April 2020.^[8]