Artem Pshonka

Artem Viktorovych Pshonka (Ukrainian: Артем Вікторович Пшонка; born on 19 March 1979) is a Ukrainian politician who had served as a member of parliament. He is a member of the Party of Regions.

Artem is a son of the former Ukrainian prosecutor general, Viktor Pshonka.

He is anted by the Security Service of Ukraine since 15 February 2015.^[1]

Biography[]

Artem Pshonka was born in Kramatorsk on 19 March 1979 to his father, Viktor, and his mother, Olha Hennadiyivna.

Between 1998 and 2005, he was trainee, assistant, senior assistant, and a promoted deputy prosecutor in Kramatorsk.

In 1999, he studied at the Donetsk State University, with a specialty of "Jurisprudence".

From July 2005 to April 2006, he was a senior assistant to the prosecutor of the Kirovsky district, in Donetsk.

In 2006, he studied at the National Law Academy of Ukraine named. Yaroslav the Wise. He defended his Ph.D. thesis "Disciplinary responsibility of prosecutors".

Pshonka was a member of parliament of the 5th convocation from April 2006 to November 2007, as a member of the Party of Regions, listed No. 128. At the time of the elections, he was a senior assistant to the Prosecutor of the Kirovsky District in Donetsk, as a non-partisan politician. He is a member of the Committee on Combating Organized Crime and Corruption since July 2006, and a Chairman of the Subcommittee on Monitoring the Implementation of Laws by State Authorities to Combat Organized Crime and Corruption, member of the Party of Regions faction, since May 2006.

He was reelected as the member of parliament for the 6th convocation since November 2007 from the Party of Regions, listed No. 149.

In the 2012 parliamentary elections, he was nominated as a candidate for deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the Party of Regions in a single-mandate majoritarian constituency number 81. According to the results of the voting, he won by gaining 65.44% of the vote.^[2]

Sanctions[]

On 5 March 2015, the Council of the European Union approved the blocking of funds dismissed by the Verkhovna Rada of President Viktor Yanukovych, his sons Oleksandr and Vikor Viktorovych , Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and his son Oleksiy, brothers Andriy and Serhiy Klyuyev, which also included his father Viktor and himself, and businessman Serhiy Kurchenko, with a total of 17 former government officials close to former President Yanukovych are suspected of misappropriating budget funds.^[3]

On 4 March 2016, the Council of the European Union continued to "freeze" the assets of 16 former high-ranking Ukrainian officials and members of their entourage until March 2017.^[4] The sanctions also applied to Pshonka.

Persecution[]

On 17 July 2015, the Security Service of Ukraine announced the search of the Pshonka family, which includes Viktor and Artem.^[5] Artem is suspected of committing a crime under Part 5 of Art. 191 of the Criminal code of Ukraine, charged with appropriation, waste or possession of property by abuse of office.

On 20 April 2016, Interpol announced its refusal to declare Artem Pshonka internationally wanted.^[6]

Family[]

His mother, Olha Hennadiyivna, is a Ph.D. in economics, and the First Vice-president of the Donetsk Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

He was married to Olha Mykolayivna (born in 1977) before they were divorced in 2014.

He has two daughters: Mariya (born in 1998), and Sofiya (born in 2011).

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