General Prosecutor 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 Генерального прокурора). In 1991 the post was inherited from the socialist law state. The term of authority of the prosecutor is six years.The law on the High Council of Justice earned
Ukrayinska Pravda (5 January 2016) The prosecutor general is appointed and dismissed by the president with parliamentary consent. Parliament can force the prosecutor general to resign after a ''vote of no-confidence''.Chief prosecutor Shokin back to work – source
Interfax-Ukraine (16 March 2016)

The current prosecutor general since 27 July 2022 is Andriy Kostin.

There are seven more additional deputies to the prosecutor general. The Prosecution General Office is a state institution that is directly proscribed in the Constitution of Ukraine along with the Cabinet of Ukraine, the Constitutional court of Ukraine, the Supreme Court, the Verkhovna Rada, and the President of Ukraine.

Since its establishment in 1917/18, the Prosecutor General Office of Ukraine was subordinated to the Government of Ukraine, while the prosecutor general held the post of the minister of justice.ГЕНЕРАЛЬНИЙ ПРОКУРОР УКРАЇНИ
In 1922 it was reorganized under socialist law after the Soviet occupation of Ukraine. With adaptation of the Stalin's Constitution of 1936/37, the office's subordination changed and, instead of being subordinated to the government of Ukraine, it was directly subordinated to the Prosecutor General Office of the Soviet Union. The status of the office was lowered and no longer held any posts in the government of the union republic. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Prosecutor General Office of Ukraine exists as an independent agency.

Definition

The Office of the Prosecutor General is entrusted with:
# prosecution in court on behalf of the State;
# representation of the interests of a citizen or of the State in court in cases determined by law;
# supervision of the observance of laws by bodies that conduct detective and search activity, inquiry and pre-trial investigation;
# supervision of the observance of laws in the execution of judicial decisions in criminal cases, and also in the application of other measures of coercion related to the restraint of personal liberty of citizens.

The prosecutor general is appointed to office by the president of Ukraine with the consent of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament).Chief prosecutor Shokin on leave – PGO
Interfax-Ukraine (17 February 2016) The prosecutor is dismissed from office by the president. The Verkhovna Rada may express no confidence in the prosecutor which will results, after a required number of votes is achieved, in their resignation from office.

Duties and powers

Both in theory and in practice, the prosecutor general and their office wield considerable power.Amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine passed: Ukraine takes a major step towards a European System of Justice
Lexology (9 June 2016) (For instance, only the prosecutor general and the chairman of the Supreme Court of Ukraine may file requests to the Verkhovna Rada to withhold the immunity of deputies from detainment or arrest.) This is a legacy of the Soviet Union state prosecutor's office founded in 1937 of which the current Prosecutor General Office is the successor. After Ukraine's independence in 1991, many of the Prosecutor General Office functions were expanded. In 2016 the powers of the Prosecutor General Office were decreased and (starting in January 2017) limited to:
*Organization and leadership of pre-trial investigations;
*Support of public prosecution in the courts; and
*Representation of the state's interest in the courts, according to the law.

On annual basis, the prosecutor general has to report to the Verkhovna Rada about the legal situation in the country.

The prosecutor general creates a collegiate council consisting out of the prosecutor general, their first and other deputies, the prosecutor of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, and other leaders of prosecution agencies.

The independent agency ''General Inspectorate'' oversees "the legality of actions undertaken by prosecutors and investigators of the whole prosecution system".

Structure

* 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 Inspection
* 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

The post of Prosecutor General appeared back in 1917. After Ukraine declared its independence from the Russian Republic due to the Bolshevik's aggression and became the Ukrainian People's Republic, the post was held by the minister of justice.

Soviet period

After the occupation of Ukraine by Bolsheviks in June 1922 there was established the Prosecutor's Office of the Ukrainian SSR. In the early years of the Ukrainian SSR, the office of prosecutor general was merged with the minister of justice until spring 1936. From 1937 to 1991 the republican prosecution office of Ukraine was subordinated to the prosecutor general of the USSR. Until 1937 the prosecutor general of Ukraine was appointed by the higher bodies of state power of Ukraine.

List of prosecutors general

This list shows prosecutors of independent Ukraine. In the absence of the prosecutor general, the office is headed by their first deputy as the acting prosecutor general.

Prior to January 2017, the term of authority of the prosecutor was five years. Since January 2017 this was increased to six years.

''Legend:''
* act — acting
* comm — parliamentary commissioner

''Notes:''
* Makhnitskyi served as acting prosecutor by being appointed by the acting president of Ukraine. Makhnitskyi is also the only head of the office in the post-Soviet Ukraine who served as a parliamentary commissioner.
* Shokin was set to be formally dismissed since February 16, 2016Profile committee recommends parliament back prosecutor general's resignation
Interfax-Ukraine (16 March 2016) after submitting a letter of resignation and taking a vacation.The Prosecutor General Office: Shokin wrote a resignation letter, but at this time he is on vacations
Ukrayinska Pravda. 29 March 2016 On March 16 Shokin returned to his duties as if he never submitted any letters of resignation. He was formally dismissed in a parliamentary vote on 29 March 2016.Rada agrees to dismiss Ukrainian Prosecutor General Shokin
Interfax-Ukraine (29 March 2016)
* Yuriy Sevruk served as acting prosecutor being the first deputy general prosecutor until the official appointment of a new Prosecutor General.The office of Prosecutor General explained who will be an acting Prosecutor General
''Ukrayinska Pravda''. 29 March 2016

See also

* Judicial system of Ukraine
* Ministry of Justice (Ukraine)

Notes

References

External links

Law of Ukraine "On Prosecutor"s Office"


Prosecutor General's Office website

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Independent agencies of the Ukrainian government
Presidency of Ukraine