Pavel Lazarenko (see photobelow) - the former Ukrainian Prime Minister, Doctor of Economics. According to the UN, he stole about $ 200 million from the state treasury, and according to the Ukrainian administration, $ 320 million. To escape from justice, he left for the United States. But from fate, as they say, you will not escape. There, Pavel Ivanovich was sentenced to 9 years in prison and a fine of $ 10 million for “misuse of finances.” In an American prison, he served 8 years for money laundering and fraud.
Career
Павел Лазаренко, биография которого будет presented in this article, born in the village of Karpovka (Ukraine) in 1953. The father of the future politician was a gardener. In 1978, Lazarenko graduated from the Agricultural Institute in Dnepropetrovsk. In 1996 he became a doctor of economics.
In 1985, he served as 2nd secretaryDistrict Committee of the CPSU. Since March 1992, he represented the interests of the president in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Two years later, Pavel Ivanovich was elected people's deputy. In his official biography it is indicated that as a result of his work with little or no investment, one of the most neglected districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region — Yuryevskiy and Sinelnikovskiy — were revived. Also Pavel Lazarenko organized the construction and launch of the metro in Dnepropetrovsk and completed about 50 long-term production and social sectors.
In September 1995, he became First Deputy Prime Minister,and a year later, the Prime Minister of Ukraine. During the year of work in this position, Lazarenko introduced a state monopoly on excisable goods, carried out a monetary reform and introduced a national monetary unit - the hryvnia.
Resignation
In July 1997, Pavel Ivanovich moved toopposition and began to speak negatively about the then President Leonid Kuchma. After 2 months, he took the place of the head of the opposition party, the president of the Gromada party. In the 1998 elections to the Verkhovna Rada, she was able to overcome the 4% barrier, and Pavel Ivanovich headed the faction, becoming a deputy.
Prosecution and Escape
In 1998, politicians were detained in Switzerland andaccused of financial fraud. But later he was released on bail, and Pavel Lazarenko returned to Kiev. In early 1999, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine filed a petition to the Verkhovna Rada to deprive him of his immunity policy and arrest him. Only the socialists A. Morozov and the Hromada party voted against this. After such results, the Gromada faction was closed, and its former members (Tymoshenko, Turchinov, and others) immediately organized a new one, Batkivshchyna. This allowed Lazarenko to become an independent deputy, not included in any faction. The report of the Prosecutor General M. Potebenko says: “Lazarenko illegally opened several currency accounts for a total of 4.5 million francs and 2 million dollars. The total damage from the policy activities for the period from 1993 to 1997 amounted to $ 2 million. "
Arrest
В феврале 1999 года бывшего премьер-министра detained in New York for violating the visa regime and trying to illegally enter the United States. Lazarenko asked for political asylum from the States, but he was refused. And in 2000, the policy was charged with fraud, extortion and money laundering. Pavel Lazarenko transferred about $ 114 million to America. According to the UN, the amount of stolen funds is $ 200 million.
Court and sentence
Суд над Лазаренко начался в середине 2001 года.A few months later, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine put forward in absentia a number of new charges against Pavel Ivanovich - of involvement in organizing several contract killings, including Getman and Shcherban.
US prosecutors demanded to recover from the policya fine of $ 66 million and imprison him for 18 years. Lazarenko was in a correctional institution until 2003. And after paying a bail of $ 86 million, he was placed under house arrest. The trial itself took place in San Francisco, because the family politician had a ranch there. In 2006, Pavel Ivanovich’s personal accounts frozen (but not withdrawn) $ 477 million. In the same year, he was sentenced to 9 years in prison and fined $ 10 million. The judge reduced the amount of proven financial abuse to $ 5 million. scandalous episodes associated with the "Unified Energy Systems of Ukraine" (UESU). Lazarenko was left under house arrest until 2008. During this time, he repeatedly filed appeals until he had exhausted all possibilities. Then the policy was sent to federal prison. In 2009, the judge decided to reduce his prison sentence.
The Ukrainian authorities have repeatedly asked the United States to extradite Pavel Lazarenko to them, but America refused because of the absence of an extradition treaty between the countries.
Personal life
Before the "move" to America, the politician was married toTamara Lazarenko and raised two daughters and a son. And already being under investigation, he managed to enter into a civil marriage with a girl who is half his age, and even give birth to a son with her.
Избранницей Лазаренко стала Оксана Цикова – granddaughter of a famous academician who headed the corn research institute in Dnepropetrovsk. Before moving to America, the girl was an activist of the youth wing of the “Gromad”. At that time, Pavel Ivanovich helped Oksana to get a referral to study at one of the best Western universities. The fact that her benefactor was arrested, Tsikova learned in London. Like the wife of a Decembrist, she went for a man whom she respected without any limits. While Lazarenko was serving time in a California prison, Oksana worked as a translator with his lawyers. During this time, her sympathy for the former boss only strengthened. Pavel Ivanovich experienced the same feelings. In the end, after Lazarenko was transferred to house arrest after exactly 9 months, Tsikova bore him a son, Ivan.
Интересно, что от широкой общественности данный the fact was hidden. The likely reason is the unresolved marriage of Lazarenko with his legitimate wife. The role of the unfaithful spouse could have a bad effect on the political career of Pavel Ivanovich, with which he was trying to reanimate. But, according to rumors, his wife Tamara is not at all bored and meets with the former driver of politics. If this is true, then the conscience of the ex-prime minister is absolutely clear.
Pavel Lazarenko and Yulia Timoshenko
In the indictment, this couple is listed as"Accomplices". The whole thing in the lawsuit, which was made public by the US prosecutor's office. It contains detailed information on the transfer of finances from the accounts of companies controlled by Yulia Tymoshenko to the foreign "piggy banks" of the former prime minister.
In addition, Pavel Lazarenko received fromTymoshenko $ 162 million is the largest part of his American funds. The lawsuit states that in 1996, the policy was transferred to $ 84 million from the Smalley Interpraises company and another $ 65 million from United Energy. A year later, UESU transferred Lazarenko $ 13 million. All these firms are directly related to Yulia Vladimirovna. This is evidenced by the document of the United States Attorney General’s Office. The reliability of the data was confirmed by the special agent of the FBI Debra Laprevott, who was investigating the case of the fraud of Pavel Lazarenko. If the charges for the debts of the EESU prove, then Tymoshenko faces 12 years in prison. And despite the fact that we are talking about the 1996 case, the statute of limitations of the article has not yet expired.
Where is Pavel Lazarenko now?
On November 1, 2012, the politician served his term and wastransferred to immigration services to decide on his future stay in the country. Pavel Ivanovich was sent to prison for immigrants in California. A week later, “Ukrinform” reported that the politician had left this place. Where he was transferred, no one knows. Yes, and on the sites of customs and immigration control, which give information about the detainees, such a name as Pavel Lazarenko no longer appears. Nobody knows where the former prime minister lives now.
