Valeriy Davydenko
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Valeriy Davydenko | |
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| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| 9th convocation | |
| In office 29 August 2019 – 23 May 2020 | |
| Constituency | Zastup No. 1 |
| 8th convocation | |
| In office 24 November 2014 – 24 July 2019 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 16 March 1973 Nosivka, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR |
| Died | (aged 47) Kyiv, Ukraine |
| Political party | Zastup Our Land |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | National University of Food Technologies |
Valeriy Davydenko (Template:Lang-uk, 16 March 1973 – 23 May 2020)[1][2][3] was a Ukrainian businessman and politician.[3] He was found shot dead in the bathroom of his office on 23 May 2020.[3]
Early life and education
Born in Nosivka Chernihiv Oblast in 1973, Davydenko graduated from the National University of Food Technologies with a degree in mechanical engineering of food production equipment.[1]
Career
From the late 1990s to the early 2000s, he worked as an insurance specialist.[1] From 2004 to 2013 Davydenko was General Director of an agricultural company which was founded in 2003 by Davydenko's mother and the future Minister of Finance of Ukraine, Yuriy Kolobov.[1] In 2020, fellow former member of parliament Andriy Verevskyi also had a stake in this company.[1] Davydenko, Kolobov and member of parliament Borys Prykhodko were former owners of the bankrupt and liquidated Terra Bank.[1]
In May 2013 Davydenko was appointed Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food in the second Azarov government (Yuriy Kolobov was Minister of Finance in this government).[1] He was fired in March 2014 after the 2014 Ukrainian revolution that was the end of the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych.[1]
Davydenko was first elected to the Ukrainian parliament in the 2014 parliamentary election for the party Zastup.[4][5] He won the party's only seat when as an unaffiliated candidate in the 208th single-member constituency located in Bakhmach.[6] He won with 38.86% of the vote.[6] During the parliamentary campaign public observers stated they had allegedly recorded voter bribery for Davydenko.[1] Zastup claimed this had been a provocation.[1] Davydenko later joined the parliamentary faction of Petro Poroshenko Bloc.[7] Davydenko was re-elected, after again a win in the 208th constituency (with 37,43% of the vote) but this time as an independent candidate, in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[8] A few months before his death Davydenko was co-chairman of the political party Our Land.[1] After the 2019 parliamentary election Davydenko joined the Trust (parliamentary group) faction.[1]
Death
Davydenko and his wife had two daughters.[1] Davydenko was found shot dead in the bathroom of his office in Kyiv on 23 May 2020.[3]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m (in Ukrainian) Business with Kolobov, Nasirov's defense and Ulyanchenko's party. What is known about the found people's deputy Davydenko shot Ukrainska Pravda (24 May 2020)
- ^ (in Ukrainian) People's Deputy Valery Davydenko was found dead in, Glavcom (23 May 2020)
- ^ a b c d Ukrainian MP Valeriy Davydenko found dead in own office's restroom, UNIAN (23 May 2020)
- ^ (in Russian) List of parties in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, ITAR-TASS (24 October 2014)
- ^ Poroshenko Bloc candidates leading in 64 single-seat constituencies - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (27 October 2014)
- ^ a b Data on vote counting at precincts within single-mandate districts Extraordinary parliamentary election on 26.10.2014 Archived October 9, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
- ^ http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/radan_gs09/ns_golos?g_id=8580
- ^ https://www.segodnya.ua/vybory2019/news/na-208-m-okruge-v-chernigovskoy-oblasti-slugu-naroda-panchenko-pobedil-nardep-davidenko-1308298.html