The Prosecutor General of Ukraine (also Procurator General; , ) heads the system of official prosecution in courts known as the Office of the Prosecutor General (, or, before 2020, ). The prosecutor general is appointed and dismissed by the president with consent of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament). and may be forced to resign by a vote of no confidence in parliament.
The Prosecutor General's Office dates to 1917, established by the fledgling Ukrainian governments following the collapse of the Russian Empire, when the minister of justice held the office of prosecutor general. In 1922, it was reorganized under socialist law after the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic became a founding member of the Soviet Union. The prosecutor is dismissed from office after serving a six-year term, or on order of the president,|group=nb and other leaders of prosecution agencies.
The prosecutor general office's General Inspectorate is an independent agency established to oversee the actions of the prosecutorial system. Its goals are to modernize the Soviet-era bureaucracy, to enhance inter-agency efficiency and international cooperation, and to fight corruption.
Structure
thumb|Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Kyiv
- Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea
- Prosecutor's Office of Cherkasy Oblast
- Prosecutor's Office of Chernihiv Oblast
- Prosecutor's Office of Chernivtsi Oblast
- Prosecutor's Office of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
- Prosecutor's Office of Donetsk Oblast
- Prosecutor's Office of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
- Prosecutor's Office of Kharkiv Oblast
- Prosecutor's Office of Kherson Oblast
- Prosecutor's Office of Khmelnytskyi Oblast
- Prosecutor's Office of Kirovohrad Oblast
- Prosecutor's Office of Kyiv City
- Prosecutor's Office of Kyiv Oblast
- Prosecutor's Office of Luhansk Oblast
- Prosecutor's Office of Lviv Oblast
- Prosecutor's Office of Mykolaiv Oblast
- Prosecutor's Office of Odesa Oblast
- Prosecutor's Office of Poltava Oblast
- Prosecutor's Office of Rivne Oblast
- Prosecutor's Office of Sumy Oblast
- Prosecutor's Office of Ternopil Oblast
- Prosecutor's Office of Vinnytsia Oblast
- Prosecutor's Office of Volyn Oblast
- Prosecutor's Office of Zakarpattia Oblast
- Prosecutor's Office of Zaporizhia Oblast
- Prosecutor's Office of Zhytomyr Oblast
- Military Prosecutor's Office of Joint Forces
- Military Prosecutor's Office of Ukrainian Central Region
- Military Prosecutor's Office of Ukrainian Southern Region
- Military Prosecutor's Office of Ukrainian Western Region
- National Academy of Prosecution of Ukraine
Separate organizations
- Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office
- Military Prosecutor
- General Inspectorate
- Primary Trade Union Organization of the Prosecutor General Office of Ukraine employees
Leadership
- Prosecutor General – Iryna Venediktova (17 March 2020)
- Deputy Prosecutor General – Viktor Trepak (8 October 2019)
- Deputy Prosecutor General – Günduz Mamedov (18 October 2019)
- Deputy Prosecutor General—Director of Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office – Nazar Kholodnytskyi (30 November 2015)
History
Early period
thumb|Serhiy Shelukhin, the first Prosecutor General The prosecutor general was appointed by the Ukrainian government and remained merged with the minister of justice until the [[1936 Constitution of the Soviet Union came into force, at which point the republican prosecution office of Ukraine was subordinated to the prosecutor general of the USSR.
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! No.
! Term
! Name
! Official title
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|1
|1922–1927
|Mykola Skrypnyk
|Prosecutor General
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|-
|2
|1927–1930
|Vasyl Poraiko
|Prosecutor General
|-
|-
|3
|1930–1933
|Vasiliy Polyakov
|Prosecutor General
|-
|-
|4
|1933–1935
|Mikhail Mikhailik
|Prosecutor General
|-
|-
|5
|1935–1936
|Arkadiy Kiselyov
|Prosecutor General
|-
|-
|6
|1936–1937
|Grigoriy Zhelyeznogorskiy
|Prosecutor General
|-
|-
|7
|1938–1944
|Leonid Yachenin
|Prosecutor of the Ukrainian SSR
|-
|-
|8
|1944–1953
|Roman Rudenko
|Prosecutor of the Ukrainian SSR
|-
|-
|9
|1953–1963
|Denys Panasyuk
|Prosecutor of the Ukrainian SSR
|-
|-
|10
|1963–1983
|Fedir Hlukh
|Prosecutor of the Ukrainian SSR
|-
|-
|11
|1983–1990
|Petro Osypenko
|Prosecutor of the Ukrainian SSR
|-
|-
|12
|1990–1991
|Mykhailo Potebenko
|Prosecutor of the Ukrainian SSR
|-
|}
Post-Soviet period
Following Ukrainian independence in 1991, the prosecutor general wielded considerable power as a legacy of the Soviet Union state prosecutor's office.
|-
|act
|24 Feb – 18 Jun 2014
|Oleh Makhnitsky
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|12
|19 Jun 2014 – 11 Feb 2015
|Vitaly Yarema
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|13
|11 Feb 2015 – 29 Mar 2016
|Viktor Shokin
|-
|act
|29 Mar – 12 May 2016
|Yuriy Sevruk
|-
|14
|12 May 2016 – 29 Aug 2019
|Yuriy Lutsenko
|-
|15
|29 Aug 2019 – 5 Mar 2020
|-
|act
|17–27 Jul 2022
|Oleksiy Symonenko
|-
|17
|27 Jul 2022 - 31 October 2024
|Andriy Kostin
|-
|act
|31 October 2024 – 17 June 2025
|Oleksiy Khomenko
|-
|18
|17 June 2025 – present
|Ruslan Kravchenko
|}
See also
- Judicial system of Ukraine
- Ministry of Justice (Ukraine)
Notes
References
External links
- Law of Ukraine "On Prosecutor"s Office"
- [https://gp.gov.ua]. Prosecutor General's Office website