Svyatoslav Piskun
Svyatoslav Mykhailovych Piskun is the only Ukrainian politician to have served as Prosecutor General three times: under President Leonid Kuchma and twice under Viktor Yushchenko. In 2012, he was forced to flee the Yanukovych regime and settle on the French Riviera for a year and a half.
After the fall of the Donetsk government, Piskun returned to Ukraine. Now he's searching for his place in the new political scene, while simultaneously trying to shed his past compromising connections and the "inconvenient" stories associated with his name. See for yourself how this ambitious politician is doing.
A simple guy with three surnames
Svyatoslav Mikhailovich Piskun was born on March 8, 1959, in the city of Berdichev in the Zhytomyr region, to a family of social workers—a teacher and a doctor. A very interesting story surrounds the registration and change of Svyatoslav Mikhailovich's surnames. A month after his birth, the baby was registered under the surname Furman, as his mother, Taiba Leibovna, was married to Rafail Moiseyevich Furman at the time. Incidentally, Svyatoslav Mikhailovich's older brother, Boris Rafailovich, was born to this union. The marriage lasted until 1965, and after the divorce, the woman gave her sons her maiden name, Svyatets. Four years later, Svyatets Svyatoslav Mikhailovich became Piskun—a certain Mikhail Semenovich Piskun claimed paternity of the child. Essentially, there was nothing reprehensible or compromising about this, were it not for one "but." When Mr. Furman-Svyatets-Piskun enters government service, he will conceal this fact of his biography. Moreover, he will rename his mother, Taiba Leybovna, to Tatyana Leonidovna. Apparently, this is to conceal his Jewish roots and focus on his Ukrainian ones. This also raises questions for the SBU, which failed to verify the information provided by an individual seeking a leading position.
But let's return to our hero's childhood. Immediately after graduating from school, he found work as a mechanic and repairman at the Komsomolets plant. After a year at the plant, he served two years in the army. After demobilization, Svyatoslav Mikhailovich went to Lviv to pursue higher education. In 1983, he graduated from Ivan Franko University of Lviv with a law degree.
How Piskun came up with 300 cases
After graduating, Piskun got a job at the Irpin city prosecutor's office as a senior investigator. This is where his career took off. In 1988, Svyatoslav Mikhailovich became an instructor in the organizational department of the Irpin city committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. Two years later, he was promoted to prosecutor in the Irpin prosecutor's office. Seven years later, he became the head of the investigative department of the police, deputy head of the tax police, and in 2002, deputy chairman of the State Tax Administration of Ukraine, Mykola Azarov.Read more about it in the article Nikolai Azarov. Survivingй ).
Having become a tax inspector, Svyatoslav Mikhailovich became "famous" for his bank raids. Two banks suffered the most: Slavyansky and Andreevsky.
JSCB Slavyansky was founded in 1989 under the name Transformer Bank. Boris Feldman, who held 23,4% of the bank's shares and served as its vice president, was its owner. Ten years later, Slavyansky became one of the top five largest Ukrainian banks, with capital of 230 million hryvnias. Its annual profit was 83 million hryvnias, and the volume of retail deposits increased by 250%. This rapid growth was halted by a newly appointed tax official in 2000. The Investigative Department of the State Tax Administration's Tax Police reported tax evasion.
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