Yuriy Lutsenko
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 59 |
| Date of birth | December 14,1964 |
| Zodiac sign | Sagittarius |
| Born | Rivne |
| Ukraine | |
| Spouse | Iryna Stepanivna Lutsenko |
| Office | Prosecutor General of Ukraine |
| Children | Oleksandr Lutsenko |
| Vitaliy Lutsenko | |
| Nationality | Soviet |
| Ukrainian | |
| Job | Politician |
| Full name | Yuriy Vitaliyovych Lutsenko |
| Education | Lviv Polytechnic National University |
| Parents | Vitaliy Ivanovych Lutsenko |
| Vira Mikhailivna Lutsenko | |
| Previous position | Prosecutor General of Ukraine (2016–2019) |
| Awards | Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise |
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| ID | 472055 |
Yuriy Lutsenko Life story
Yuriy Vitaliyovych Lutsenko is a Ukrainian politician, Ukrainian Interior Minister and member in the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Lutsenko has been a long serving people's deputy in the Verkhovna Rada; first elected in 2002 and reelected in 2007 and 2014.
Recalled US ambassador felt 'threatened' by Trump
... Mr Giuliani also enlisted Ukraine s chief prosecutor, Yuriy Lutsenko, to spread falsehoods about her in order to hurt her in the US , according to Ms Yovanovitch...
Trump impeachment: Lawyer Rudy Giuliani subpoenaed for documents
... Ukrainian ex-prosecutor general Yuriy Lutsenko told the BBC there was no reason to investigate Mr Biden or his son, who had worked for a Ukrainian energy firm...
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... Ukrainian ex-prosecutor general Yuriy Lutsenko has told the BBC that there was no reason to investigate Mr Biden or his son Hunter Biden, who had worked for a Ukrainian energy firm...
No reason to probe Bidens: former Ukraine prosecutor
... Yuriy Lutsenko said any investigation into Mr Biden and his son would have to start in the US...
Trump, the Ukraine and the Prosecutor's office: your questions answered
... The year 2018, letter to then-state s attorney Yuriy Lutsenko concern that the Ukrainian government is no longer the collaboration with Robert Muller, Russia is the interference request and secure from its own investigation into the former trump-campaign-chair of Paul Manafort, who had significant dealings with the nation...
Trump Ukraine call: Democratic calls for impeachment grow
... Ukraine s current prosecutor, Yuriy Lutsenko, told Bloomberg News in May he had no evidence of wrongdoing by Mr Biden or his son...
No reason to probe Bidens: former Ukraine prosecutor
A Ukrainian ex-prosecutor general has told the BBC there is no reason for his country to investigate President Donald Trump 's political rival Joe Biden .
Yuriy Lutsenko said any investigation into Mr Biden and his Son would have to start in the US.
"I don't know any reason to investigate Joe Biden or Hunter Biden according to Ukrainian law," he said.
Mr Trump's efforts to have Ukraine investigate the pair prompted an impeachment inquiry by the Democrats .
on 25 July shows he urged him to investigate discredited corruption allegations against Mr Biden and his Son .
Mr Zelensky (left) met Donald Trump at the UN General Assembly in New York on WednesdayMr Trump and his allies have been suggesting That Mr Biden, as Barack Obama 's vice-president, encouraged the firing of Ukraine's top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin , because he had been investigating Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma, which employed Hunter Biden .
Hunter Biden became a director at Burisma in 2014, while his father held a key role in US policy towards Ukraine.
Mr Biden is currently frontrunner to be the Democrat to take on Mr Trump in the November 2020 presidential election.
What did Lutsenko say?Speaking to BBC Kiev correspondent Jonah Fisher , Mr Lutsenko - who succeeded Mr Shokin and stood down last month - said there was No Plan to open The Investigation into Burisma, and That any investigation into Hunter Biden would have to start in the US.
"It is the jurisdiction of the US," he said, adding That any "possible embezzlement" at Burisma "happened two or three years before Hunter Biden became a member of the board".
Mr Lutsenko also said he had met Donald Trump 's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani , who asked him if it was possible to investigate the Bidens in his country.
"I told him the same I told You - it is not my jurisdiction," he said. "It is likely to be the jurisdiction of the US. If You will send me a request, yes, I will give You all official information, but it is not Ukrainian jurisdiction - That was my answer. "
Pressed by our correspondent on any evidence Ukraine may have against the Bidens, Mr Lutsenko said: "I can do nothing [on a case] which is not connected with Ukrainian law. "
What is the impeachment inquiry about?In a complaint filed last month, a in the 2020 US election.
The impeachment inquiry launched on Tuesday now focuses specifically on Mr Trump's call to the Ukrainian president about the discredited Biden allegations.
Democrats accuse Mr Trump of illegally seeking foreign help in The Hope of smearing Mr Biden.
Mr Trump is also accused of using military aid for Ukraine as a bargaining tool.
President Trump has dismissed the proceedings as a "hoax" and "another witch-hunt". On Saturday .
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Source of news: bbc.com
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