Yaroslav Vasylyovych Dubnevych ( born 7 August 1969) is a Ukrainian politician. He serves as People's Deputy of the
Verkhovna Rada
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the ...
(Ukraine's national parliament) elected in the
2012
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,
2014
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and
2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election
Snap elections to the Ukrainian parliament were held on 21 July 2019. Originally scheduled to be held at the end of October, these elections were brought forward after newly inaugurated President of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dissolv ...
Civil movement "Chesno"
Chesno ( uk, Чесно, lit=honestly, fairly) is a Ukrainian public campaign that emerged late 2011 to advance a fair election process. It is widely known for its critical analysis and evaluation of politicians and the Verkhovna Rada (parliame ...
(2 November 2023)
After the 2012 he joined the
UDAR
The Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform ( uk, Український демократичний альянс за реформи Віталія Кличка; the acronym UDAR ( uk, УДАР) translates to "strike" or "punch", en, Ukrainian ...
faction. Between 2014 and 2019 he was a member of the Poroshenko Bloc faction. Following the 2019 election he joined the For the Future parliamentary faction.
In November 2023 an international arrested warrant was issued against Dubnevych on corruption charges. His current whereabouts are unknown.
Biography
In the
2006
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Lviv Oblast Council
The Lviv Oblast Council or Lviv Regional Council ( uk, Львівська обласна рада) is the regional council (parliament) of the Lviv Oblast (region) located in western Ukraine.
Legislative framework
The Regional Council is a loc ...
Batkivshchyna
The All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" ( uk, Всеукраїнське об'єднання "Батьківщина", translit=Vseukrains'ke obiednannia "Bat'kivshchyna") referred to as Batkivshchyna (), is a political party in Ukraine led by Peo ...
Lviv Oblast
Lviv Oblast ( uk, Льві́вська о́бласть, translit=Lvivska oblast, ), also referred to as Lvivshchyna ( uk, Льві́вщина, ), ). The name of each oblast is a wikt:Appendix:Glossary#relational, relational adjective—in Englis ...
as an independent candidate. After being elected he joined the
UDAR
The Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform ( uk, Український демократичний альянс за реформи Віталія Кличка; the acronym UDAR ( uk, УДАР) translates to "strike" or "punch", en, Ukrainian ...
faction in parliament.
In the 2014 parliamentary election Dubnevych was reelected after he again won single-mandate constituency № 120, gaining 60.1% of the vote as a candidate of
Petro Poroshenko Bloc
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. He was a member of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc parliamentary faction. On 4 December 2014, he headed the Verkhovna Rada (the official name of Ukraine's national parliament) Committee on Transport. He was a Member of the Inter-Parliamentary Relations Group with Hungary, Member of the Inter-Parliamentary Relations Group with Kuwait, Member of the Inter-Parliamentary Relations Group with
Jordan
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, Member of the Inter-Parliamentary Relations Group with
Indonesia
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. He was one of the initiators of the State Road Fund, the purpose of which was to create a mechanism for the distribution of financial revenues to repair roads. The relevant bill was passed by parliament in November 2016.
Dubnevych took part in the
2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election
Snap elections to the Ukrainian parliament were held on 21 July 2019. Originally scheduled to be held at the end of October, these elections were brought forward after newly inaugurated President of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dissolv ...
again in the same constituency No. 120 again as an independent candidate. After being elected he joined the For the Future faction in parliament. He became Member of the Committee on Nation Health, Health Care and Health Insurance.
The media repeatedly reported that commercial entities associated with Yaroslav Dubnevych and his brother Bohdan regularly win tenders for the supply of spare parts for the national railway company
Ukrzaliznytsia
Ukrainian Railways ( uk, Укрзалізниця, Ukrzaliznytsia, abbreviated as UZ) is a state-owned joint-stock company of rail transport in Ukraine, a monopoly that controls the vast majority of the railroad transportation in the country. I ...
. In 2016 alone, the state-owned company purchased goods worth about UAH 1 billion from them. Former Minister of Infrastructure
Volodymyr Omelyan
Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Omelyan ( uk, Володимир Володимирович Омелян) (January 30, 1979 in Lviv) is a Ukrainian diplomat and politician. He is a former Ukraine's infrastructure minister in the government of Volodymy ...
expressed doubts about their necessity.
In October 2019
Prosecutor General of Ukraine
The prosecutor general of Ukraine (also procurator general of Ukraine, uk, Генеральний прокурор України) heads the system of official prosecution in courts known as the Office of the Prosecutor General ( uk, Офіс ...
Ruslan Riaboshapka
Ruslan Heorhiiovych Riaboshapka ( uk, Руслан Георгійович Рябошапка) (born 14 October 1976) is a Ukrainian jurist who was the Prosecutor General of Ukraine from August 2019 to March 2020.Oleg Sukhov. Riaboshapka replaces ...
filed to
National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine
National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine ( uk, Національне Антикорупційне Бюро України, ''НАБУ'') or NABU is a Ukrainian law enforcement anti-corruption agency which investigates corruption in Ukraine ...
(NABU) and
Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office
The Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office ( uk, Спеціалізована антикорупційна прокуратура) or SAPO is an independent structural unit of the General Prosecutor of Ukraine, and is primarily respons ...
(SAP) statements on bringing Dubnevych to criminal liability in the case of misappropriation of Ukrzaliznytsia. On 31 October 2019 parliament lifted his parliamentary immunity.
In September 2022 the
High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine
The High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine ( uk, Вищий антикорупційний суд України) (HACC) is a Ukrainian court established on 11 April 2019. The court handed down its first sentence on 30 October 2019. Cases concernin ...
Central Election Commission of Ukraine
The Central Election Commission of Ukraine ( uk, Центральна виборча комісія України, commonly abbreviated in Ukrainian as ЦВК (''Tse-Ve-Ka''); sometimes referred to as the Central Electoral Commission of Ukrai ...
In October 2023 NABU and SAP reported Dubnevych on suspicion of organizing a scheme to steal
natural gas
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worth 2.1 billion
Ukrainian Hryvnia
The or ( ; uk, гривня , : ''hrn''; sign: ₴; code: UAH) has been the national currency of Ukraine since 2 September 1996. The hryvnia is divided into 100 . It is named after a measure of weight used in medieval Kievan Rus'.
Name Etym ...
.
NABU
Nabu ( akk, cuneiform: 𒀭𒀝 Nabû syr, ܢܵܒܼܘܼ\ܢܒܼܘܿ\ܢܵܒܼܘܿ Nāvū or Nvō or Nāvō) is the ancient Mesopotamian patron god of literacy, the rational arts, scribes, and wisdom.
Etymology and meaning
The Akkadian "nab ...
ordered Dubnevych arrest. On 2 November 2023 Dubnevych had agreed to attend a meeting with the High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine, but he did not show up. Following this the court issued an international arrest warrant for Dubnevych.Europol informed the Ukrainian authorities that he on 8 October 2023 had crossed the
Romania
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n border with
Hungary
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