Elena Tishchenko has been appointed head of a new department within the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has created a Department for the Recovery of Illegally Obtained Assets. Arsen Avakov announced this on his Facebook page.

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As the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced, the agency is headed by Elena Tishchenko, the ex-wife of Sergei Tishchenko.

 

As Arsen Avakov reported, the main functions of the new agency will be:

  • · "ensuring close, direct cooperation with law enforcement agencies of other countries to expeditiously identify and freeze the assets of individuals under investigation by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, both in Ukraine and abroad. Interaction with the US FBI, specially established contact centers in over 100 countries responsible for facilitating the search and return of assets, and other organizations;
  • · ensuring the recovery of criminal assets in favor of the state on the basis of decisions of Ukrainian and foreign judicial authorities;
  • · analytical support for the investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and coordination with the State Financial Monitoring Service and the Prosecutor General’s Office within the framework of the tasks assigned to the Directorate;
  • · collection and analytical processing of information from all open sources of other countries, ensuring maximum effectiveness of the investigation by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine."

Dossier:

Elena Tyshchenko is an international lawyer with two full law degrees: Ukrainian and English. She holds a Master's degree in International Business Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She specializes in international financial crime. She has 18 years of experience, more than eight of which have been spent abroad.

 

After the first Maidan, Elena worked on the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Combating Organized Crime and Corruption. She was involved in the reprivatization of Kryvorizhstal and the development of state programs for the Cabinet of Ministers.

 

In 2013, Elena Tishchenko became the target of an attack by Russian intelligence services. She spent four months in the same pretrial detention center where Nadiya Savchenko was later held, including two weeks on hunger strike. She was also subjected to an international smear campaign, which her persecutors used to justify their actions.

 

In 2014, she was responsible for interaction with law enforcement agencies in the Presidential Administration of Ukraine and served as Ukraine's delegate to GRECO (the Group of States against Corruption). Olena Tyshchenko authored the regulations establishing the Interdepartmental Commission for Asset Recovery.

 

It is known that Tyshchenko is the ex-wife of businessman Serhiy Tyshchenko, who became involved in a major scandal involving the sale of confiscated oil products from oligarch Kurchenko. Current MP Serhiy Pashinsky was also implicated in the scandal.

 

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