Viktor Pshonka
| Viktor Pshonka Віктор Пшонка |
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Viktor Pshonka in 2013
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| 11th Prosecutor General of Ukraine | |
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In office November 3, 2010 – February 22, 2014 |
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| President | Viktor Yanukovych |
| Preceded by | Oleksandr Medvedko |
| Succeeded by | Oleh Makhnitsky (as GPU commissar) |
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Viktor Pavlovych Pshonka February 6, 1954 Serhiivka, Donetsk Oblast, Soviet Union |
| Citizenship |
 Russia
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| Religion | Eastern Orthodox |
Viktor Pavlovych Pshonka (Ukrainian: Віктор Павлович Пшонка) is a former Prosecutor General of Ukraine (from November 4, 2010 until February 22, 2014), State Counselor of Justice of Ukraine and member of the High Council of Justice of Ukraine. He holds a Doctor of Laws degree, and is a member of the International Association of Prosecutors.
On 22 February 2014, as a part of the "Maidan revolution", the Verkhovna Rada ousted Pshonka in a no-confidence vote. On 23 February 2014 an arrest warrant was issued to arrest Pshonka.
Viktor Pshonka was born on February 6, 1954, in Serhiyivka, Slovyansk District of Donetsk Oblast. After graduating from high school he was called up for military service in the Soviet Army. Having discharged from army, he got a job at one of the enterprises in Donetsk Oblast.
In 1975, Viktor Pshonka enrolled at the Kharkiv Law Institute.
In 1980, he began work at Kramatorsk Prosecutor's Office in Donetsk Oblast, where he served as investigator, and eventually as an assistant to prosecutor of the city of Kramatorsk.
From 1986 till 1997, Viktor Pshonka served as prosecutor of Kramatorsk City.
In 1997, he was appointed first deputy prosecutor of Donetsk Oblast.
In 1998-2003, he was prosecutor of Donetsk Oblast, one of the biggest regions in Ukraine.
TV journalist Igor Aleksandrov was murdered in 2001 while producing a program exposing links between politicians, law enforcement, and organized crime in Kramatorsk; Pshonka was one of two men Aleksandrov had identified as godfathering the Kramatorsk underworld. Pshonka then oversaw the investigation of the murder. A homeless man was larger charged but acquitted in the case, dying of 'mysterious circumstances' soon after; the same fate that befell the two witnesses and investigating police officer.
In November 2003, Viktor P. Pshonka was appointed Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine. He was in charge of prosecutor's supervision over observance of laws by the agencies of the Ministry of Interior, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), tax police and special units combating organized crime and corruption. He was also responsible for supervision over state customs service and border guard.
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