Alexander Zakoretsky
The Presidential Administration has appointed a deputy head of one of the departments of former Poltava Oblast Prosecutor Oleksandr Zakoretsky, who is subject to lustration, according to Ukrayinska Pravda.
Thus, Oleksandr Zakoretsky holds the position of Deputy Head of the Main Department for Law Enforcement and Anti-Corruption of the Presidential Administration. The publication cites Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk's order conferring the rank of civil servant on Zakoretsky, dated October 22, 2014.
Zakoretsky is subject to lustration under the provisions of the "Law on the Purification of Power" and, accordingly, is ineligible to hold public office for 10 years. Specifically, from November 2007 to March 21, 2011, Zakoretsky served as the First Deputy Head of the General Directorate for Supervision of Compliance with Laws on Rights and Freedoms and the Protection of State Interests of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine. This is an independent structural unit of the central body (apparatus) of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine.
According to the lustration law, it applies to people who held a position (positions) for at least one year between February 25, 2010 and February 22, 2014.
After the February 2014 regime change, Zakoretsky himself became the Poltava regional prosecutor, where he became known for his fierce confrontation with Poltava Mayor Oleksandr Mamay. In mid-August 2014, Zakoretsky was dismissed from his position as regional prosecutor by order of Prosecutor General Vitaliy Yarema and subsequently transferred to the Prosecutor General's Office. From there, a day before the first wave of prosecutor dismissals as part of the lustration campaign, he was transferred to the Presidential Administration.
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