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Andriy Volodymyrovych Portnov (Ukrainian: Андрій Володимирович Портнов; 27 October 1973 – 21 May 2025) was a Ukrainian lawyer and politician. From 2005 to 2010, Portnov headed the legal department of Yulia Tymoshenko's election headquarters. From 2 April 2010 to the end of February 2014, he was the Head of the Main Department for Judiciary of the Presidential Administration of Viktor Yanukovych and Deputy (then promoted to first deputy on 24 January 2014) Head of the Administration of the President of Ukraine. He was also a member of the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014. During the Euromaidan, Portnov was involved in the adoption of anti-protest laws in Ukraine. Immediately after the Euromaidan, on 20 February 2014, he left Ukraine. Between 2014 and 2015, he was under the sanctions of the European Union. He lived in Russia, then moved to Vienna, and practiced law there. On 19 May 2019, he returned to Ukraine. On 15 January 2020, the Pechersk Court of Kyiv ruled that, for the purposes of elections Portnov was a resident of Ukraine for the last five years. A number of criminal cases were filed against Portnov, many of which were quashed. In 2018,…Citește mai mult

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Early life Andriy Portnov was born on 27 October 1973 in Luhansk. In 1990, Portnov graduated from secondary school No. 50 in Luhansk. From 1991 to 1992, he served in the Soviet Army and the Ukrainian Ground Forces. From 1993 to 1994, Portnov worked as a legal adviser for Yurlit Ltd in Luhansk, while studying at the correspondence department of the law faculty of East Ukrainian State University. Then, for less than two years, he was a lawyer at the AP "Lugansk Oil Depot". In 1996, he headed the law firm Ukrinformpravo in Luhansk. He graduated from the university in 1999.

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At the Securities Commission In January 1997, Portnov began working in Kyiv at the State Commission on Securities and Stock Market. First, he held the position of chief specialist of the department of methodology and standardization of accounting and reporting of the corporate finance department. A few months later, he was appointed deputy head of the control and legal department and head of the law enforcement department. From September 1997 to December 2001, he held the following positions in the commission: assistant to the chairman, head of the corporate finance department; the assistant to the chairman, leader of the group of assistants and advisers to the chairman; and head of the corporate finance department. From January 2002 to May 2003, he was the director of the law firm Portnov and Partners, specializing in services in the field of investment business, corporate governance, privatization, and the securities market. The company was later renamed "Corporate Technologies". The firm itself and Portnov were repeatedly accused of raiding property between 2002 and 2010. In June 2003, he returned to the State Commission and until July 2004, he worked as First Deputy Executive Secretary (Head of the Central Office). In 2004, by the decree of…Citește mai mult

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In parliament In July 2005, Portnov returned to law, which he was engaged in until April 2006. After the corruption scandal in Ukraine in September 2005, he represented in court the interests of Secretary of State Oleksandr Zinchenko, who accused the head of the National Security and Defense Council, Petro Poroshenko, and his entourage of corruption. The trial ended in Poroshenko's favor. Before the 2006 parliamentary elections, Portnov was included in the list of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) and during the elections he headed the legal department of the factional headquarters, was elected a member of parliament as a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the 5th convocation. At the early parliamentary elections in 2007, he re-entered parliament on the BYuT list, becoming a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the 6th convocation. He became a member of the parliamentary committee on justice. In 2008, he was elected deputy head of the BYuT faction. At the time he was a member of All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland". In parliament, there was an informal "Portnov group", which, in addition to Portnov, included Svyatoslav Oleynyk, Valeriy Pysarenko, and Volodymyr Pylypenko. From August to September 2008, on behalf of Tymoshenko, Portnov worked on joint…Citește mai mult

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In the Presidential Administration After Tymoshenko's defeat in the presidential elections of 2010, to Viktor Yanukovych, Portnov defended her interests in the Supreme Administrative Court. He later stated that he considered going to court as inappropriate and took up the case under pressure from Tymoshenko. After the presidential campaign, he stopped legal services for BYuT and resigned from the post of deputy head of the BYuT faction. Portnov's parliamentary group went over to the side of the Party of Regions. On 2 April 2010, he accepted the offer of President Yanukovych to take the position of Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of Ukraine and the Head of the Main Directorate for Judicial Reform and Judicial System. To the BYuT faction, Portnov's transfer to the Yanukovych administration was negatively perceived as treason. Yanukovych introduced Portnov to the council of the National Bank of Ukraine, as well as to the supervisory boards of OJSC State Savings Bank of Ukraine and OJSC State Export-Import Bank of Ukraine. In April 2011, as a result of the administrative reform, Portnov was transferred to the position of adviser to the president and head of the Main Directorate for the Judicial System of the…Citește mai mult

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Euromaidan protests During the Euromaidan, Portnov was a member of the working group on resolving the political crisis together with President Yanukovych and Minister of Justice Olena Lukash.

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16 January laws Portnov is called the initiator of the development of the so-called "dictatorial laws" of 16 January 2014, which significantly limited the constitutional rights of Ukrainian citizens and were directed against Euromaidan. These laws were passed by the majority of the then parliament in violation of the rules, without discussion, by show of hands, without the use of the "Rada" system. Despite a positive attitude towards them, he denied participation in their creation. On 24 January 2014, by Decree No. 39/2014, President Yanukovych appointed Portnov as the First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration. On 22–24 February 2014, Portnov left Ukraine. He stated that he had been assaulted. On 26 February 2014, Oleksandr Turchynov was sworn as acting President of Ukraine, and dismissed Portnov from the post of first deputy head of the administration. On 28 February 2014, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine sent a request to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Security Service of Ukraine to immediately detain those involved in the mass killings of activists in the center of Kyiv from 18 to 22 February 2014, which they suspected Portnov who was involved in those incidents within 10 days.

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Sanctions On 5 March 2014, the European Council approved the blocking of a total of 17 former government officials and people close to former President Yanukovych on suspicion of misappropriation of budget funds. Former Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Portnov was also included in this list. On 6 March 2014, the European Union and Canada announced that Portnov was on the list of high-ranking Ukrainian officials against whom financial sanctions were being imposed. Portnov himself declared that he had no financial assets abroad. On 25 May 2014, the FMS of Russia granted him a temporary residence permit for a period of 3 years. He later moved to Vienna, where he practiced law. On 25 August 2014, the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv partially satisfied Portnov's claim against the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation, ruling to declare unreliable information about his alleged involvement in the massacres of activists at Euromaidan during the early winter events of 2014. On 9 October, the court ruled unreliable information about Portnov's alleged involvement in the plundering of land and real estate in Mezhyhirya and the legalization of funds, made public by the leadership of the…Citește mai mult

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Emigration At that time, he continued to provide legal advice to Kolomoisky, cooperation with whom began in 1999. He also provided legal support to Vyacheslav Khimikus, who accused ex-People's Deputy Serhiy Pashynskyi of shooting him in a leg. From 27 August to 5 October 2018, he was the owner of the corporate rights to the news channel NewsOne, which eventually passed to the business partner and political associate of Viktor Medvedchuk, and Taras Kozak. He also managed the NewsOne TV channel, receiving 100% of the channel's shares from Volodymyr Murayev (Yevheniy Murayev's father).

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Return to Ukraine On 29 February 2019, at the request of Portnov's lawyer, the Pechersk Court of Kyiv set a deadline of 1 month for investigators of the Prosecutor General's Office to complete the pre-trial investigation and make procedural decisions in criminal proceedings against Portnov. The lawyer said that the proceedings of 6 March 2014 have been going on for four years and 10 months and violated reasonable deadlines. The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine refused to comply with the court's decision to close all criminal proceedings against Portnov by 20 March and filed a petition to clarify the court's decision. During the 2019 presidential election, Portnov spoke in support of Volodymyr Zelensky as opposed to incumbent President Poroshenko, and after both went to the second round, he promised to return to the country. The candidate's team and those involved rejected any connection to Portnov and other Yanukovych-era officials along with Lukash, who also began to support Zelensky. On 19 May 2019, on the eve of the second round of the presidential elections, he returned to Ukraine, along with Lukash. After that, he began filing applications with the State Bureau of Investigation against former President Poroshenko: accusations of "criminal actions"…Citește mai mult

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Conflict with journalists of Radio Liberty On 31 October 2019, Portnov released the personal data of a member of the film crew of the "Schemes: Corruption in Detail" program of the Ukrainian edition of Radio Liberty, as well as data indicating the surveillance of this person. The editors considered this publication to be direct pressure on the Scheme team, which was preparing an investigation into Portnov's influence and his connections with the new Ukrainian government, as well as a violation of a number of articles of the law on the protection of personal data and the Criminal Code. Later, Portnov published the personal data of four more people associated with the program. The former official himself later accused the journalists of illegally spying on himself, and also appealed to his status as a journalist for Channel 112, whose management gave him an editorial task to inform the promise of illegal actions of people who are engaged in illegal operational-search activities. On 14 November, the first meeting of the Council on Freedom of Expression and Protection of Journalists was held in the President's office, where the police and the Ministry of Internal Affairs heard about the cases on the statements of…Citește mai mult

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Escape from Ukraine According to the Schemes: Corruption in Details project of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, on 3 June 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Portnov fled the country through Zakarpattia Oblast. According to Serhii Sternenko, he fled the country with the help of Presidential aide Oleh Tatarov. His son had previously fled Ukraine on 23 March 2022.

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Lawsuit against Poroshenko In 2005, Portnov represented in court the interests of Oleksandr Zinchenko, Secretary of State of Ukraine. Portnov claimed that his law firm had provided free services to Zinchenko to help "fight corruption." In addition, Portnov tried in court to challenge the legality of the combination of Petro Poroshenko's parliamentary mandate and the position of Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, and also proposed to re-privatize Poroshenko's property. Portnov lost the lawsuit against Poroshenko. Mass killings during the 2014 Ukrainian revolution On 28 February 2014, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine sent a request to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Security Service of Ukraine to immediately detain persons involved in the massacre of activists in downtown Kyiv between 18 and 22 February 2014, against Portnov. On 15 August 2014, the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv partially upheld Portnov's lawsuit against the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine for protection of honor, dignity and business reputation, ruling that the information about his alleged involvement in mass killings of activists during the 2014 Ukrainian revolution during the 2014 winter events was unreliable.

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Proceedings on 6 March On 6 March 2014, proceedings were opened against Portnov on the facts of threats to MPs, as well as misappropriation of funds of Kyiv National University and Kyiv National Economic University for ₴137.6 thousand, and possible misappropriation of illegal payments by a former AP employee in especially large amounts.

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Waste of property In May 2014, the Kyiv Prosecutor's Office opened criminal proceedings against Portnov under Part 2 of Art. 191 (misappropriation, misappropriation of property or taking it by abuse of office) and Part 1 of Art. 364 (abuse of power or official position) of the Criminal Code. Portnov was accused that in June 2010, using his official position, he illegally headed the Department of Constitutional Law of Kyiv National University. T. Shevchenko, as well as seized the funds of the university, never attending lectures. In addition, in order to illegally influence the judiciary, Portnov became a member of the High Council of Justice as a representative of a higher education institution. On 24 February 2015, the case was reclassified, after the update of the notice of suspicion, only the accusation of seizing the university's salary under Art. 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. As of February 2015, Portnov was on the lists of the Ministry of Internal Affairs as a person hiding from the Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine. Article 191 part 3 of the Criminal Code was mentioned. Until March 2016, the investigation was unable to identify the persons who seized the university's funds in the amount of…Citește mai mult

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Theft of real estate in Mezhyhirya On 9 October 2014, the court found unreliable information about Portnov's involvement in the theft of land and real estate in Mezhyhirya and money laundering, published by the leadership of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine at a press conference on 20 May, and ordered the Prosecutor General's Office Ukraine within 10 days to publicly refute this information.