Renat Ravelievich Kuzmin
Official biography
Born on July 12, 1967 in Donetsk in a Russian-Tatar family.
Ukrainian lawyer and politician. Former Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, State Counselor of Justice of the 1st class, civil servant of the 1st rank. Member of the Ukrainian Parliament of the IX convocation since August 29, 2019.
Renat Kuzmin in his youth:
Member of the Verkhovna Rada of the IX convocation (OPFL)
Career
— 1985 — student of the Kharkiv Dzerzhinsky Law Institute.
— 1986 — conscript in the Soviet Army.
— 1988 — legal adviser at the Donetsk Production and Trade Knitting Association.
— 1991 — intern at the Donetsk Environmental Interdistrict Prosecutor’s Office.
— 1991 — intern at the Prosecutor’s Office of the Leninsky District of Donetsk.
— 1992 — Senior Assistant Prosecutor of the Leninsky District of Donetsk.
— 1992 — Deputy Prosecutor of Leninsky District of Donetsk.
— 1994 — Deputy Prosecutor of Voroshilovsky District of Donetsk.
— 1995 — Prosecutor of the Donetsk Environmental Interdistrict Prosecutor’s Office.
— 1998 — Prosecutor of Kirovsky District of Donetsk.
— 1999 — Head of the Department of the Prosecutor’s Office of Donetsk Region.
— 1999 — Prosecutor of the city of Makiivka, Donetsk region.
— 2003 — Deputy Prosecutor of Donetsk Region, Head of the Prosecutor’s Office of Donetsk Region.
— 2003 — Prosecutor of the city of Kyiv.
— 2005 — Senior Assistant Prosecutor of Kyiv Region.
— 2005 — Deputy Prosecutor of Kyiv Region.
— 2006-2010 — Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine. In 2010-2013 — First Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine.
— 2013 — Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
— 2014 — candidate for the post of President of Ukraine.
In January 2017, he called on the head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Vasyl Hrytsak, to initiate a criminal case of treason against President Petro Poroshenko and top managers of the Roshen company, as the Lipetsk factory owned by the company financed the Russian army, which the president accused of participating in the armed conflict in the east of the country, by paying taxes. After the agency’s refusal, he filed a lawsuit demanding an investigation, and in July the court ordered the SBU to register and launch a criminal investigation.
Family.
Cousin — Kuzmin, Rafael Izmailovich, First Deputy Chairman of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine. His wife is Natalia Kuzmina. The couple has two sons. One of them was listed in the MP’s 2020 declaration — his name is Artem. Nothing is known about the other son.
Kuzmina has been repeatedly accused of having an affair with a prosecutor, Olena Syhydyn. She worked in the PGO unit responsible for international cooperation. Since she spoke English well, she accompanied Kuzmin on all his foreign trips and translated documents for him. She could often be seen in Kuzmin’s reception and office.
In 2018, Kuzmin was accused of having an affair with another woman. That year, an official at the Ministry of Justice, Alisa Oskirko, was caught taking a bribe. At the same time, journalist Andriy Dzyndzya said that Oskirko was Renat Kuzmin’s mistress.
Compromising evidence
Renat Kuzmin is a representative of the “Donetsk clan” and a “prosecutor’s hawk” (as he is called by the media) of the Yanukovych era.
According to the press, in prosecutorial circles, Kuzmin was not shy about calling him a “lawless man.” This refers to his moral qualities.
Kuzmin led the process of illegally opening cases against former Interior Minister Lutsenko under Part 5 of Article 191, Part 3 of Article 365 and Part 1 of Article 367 of the Criminal Code.
Further, also illegally, a case was opened against the former Minister of Environmental Protection of Ukraine Heorhiy Filipchuk under Part 3 of Article 365 of the Criminal Code, and against the former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko under Part 3 of Article 365 of the Criminal Code.
Rinat Kuzmin’s rating on the website “Slovo i Dilo”;
In 2010, Deputy Prosecutor General Kuzmin released a certain Givi Dzhvebovich Nemsadze with his personal signature. In the criminal world, Nemsadze is known as a criminal authority nicknamed «Givchik» (or «Papa»). Law enforcement suspected him of organizing a series of murders in the Donetsk region in the 1990s.
The methods of Renat Kuzmin’s work are evidenced by the fact that in 2004, employees of the Kyiv Prosecutor’s Office reported on one of the TV channels that the Deputy Prosecutor General was putting pressure on the staff.
Forty employees even wrote an appeal to then-presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko. However, the management of the department stated that this appeal was fake. In 2013, MP Serhiy Vlasenko expressed doubts about the legality of Renat Kuzmin’s entry into law school in 1985.
According to the representative of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, according to the rules of the time, in order to enter this university, one had to have two years of experience in the internal affairs agencies or serve in the army. Vlasenko noted that Kuzmin, who graduated from high school in 1984, could have entered the law institute illegally.
In May 2014, the Main Investigation Department of the same agency became interested in Renat Kuzmin’s actions as Deputy Prosecutor General. A criminal case was opened on the fact that Renat Kuzmin organized the illegal detention of former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko in 2010. In addition, the former deputy prosecutor general was suspected of inciting a judge of the Pechersk court in Kyiv to impose a preventive measure in the form of arrest.
A month later, the prosecutor’s office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs put the former Yanukovych-era official on the wanted list. However, Renat Kuzmin went into hiding abroad. At the same time, his lawyers claimed that he had not left the country.
Rinat Kuzmin was on the wanted list:
At that time, Ukrainian law enforcement officers sent a letter to Interpol with a request to put Renat Kuzmin on the international wanted list. However, Interpol saw Kuzmin’s case as political in nature and refused to put the Yanukovych-era official on the international wanted list.
In September 2015, law enforcement officers opened another criminal case against Renat Kuzmin. This time, he was suspected of seizing state property, namely the illegal construction of a plot of land in the Pushcha Voditsa recreation area.
A summer house in Pushcha-Vodytsia:
Back in 2010, the former deputy head of the Prosecutor General’s Office built a house for himself here, with an area of more than a thousand square meters. The court seized the property and banned Kuzmin from using it. According to media reports, in early 2017, a golden shovel was found during searches of the former prosecutor’s father’s house.
In 2014, Renat Kuzmin made a resonant statement in the case of journalist Georgiy Gongadze. Kuzmin claimed that a bribe of one billion dollars was paid to stop the criminal case against Leonid Kuchma in the case of Georgiy Gongadze’s murder. The politician’s statement was immediately denied by Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka.
Between 1984 and 2005, under the leadership of Renat Kuzmin, pre-trial investigations were conducted into a number of murders, attempted murders and abuses of women and underage girls. Eight people were unjustly convicted in these criminal cases. Each case was investigated based on newly discovered circumstances. And in 2008-2010, the court overturned the verdicts against those illegally convicted.
In addition to high-profile investigations against top politicians, he was “distinguished” for releasing criminal figures.
For example, in 2006, Renat Kuzmin refused to open a case against Oleksandr Melnyk, the leader of the Crimean criminal group ‘Saylem’.
In May 2014, the PGO began pre-trial proceedings against Kuzmin for organizing the illegal detention of former Interior Minister Lutsenko. He was also accused of inciting a judge of the Pechersk Court of Kyiv to impose an arrest as a measure of restraint on Lutsenko. On June 26 and 27, the Interior Ministry and the PGO put Kuzmin on the wanted list.
Dismissal of the “King of Donbass” watchdog
Oleksandr Melnyk has been repeatedly called the leader of the most powerful Crimean organized crime group “Saylem”, “who has more than 50 murders”, by the Minister of the Interior of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko himself. According to the information from the sources of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, according to the “Hrany” edition, Melnik, who has already served his sentence in 2001, is charged with: organizing the murders of 3 businessmen in Saki in 1996, the explosion of the Simferopol company “Iceberg” (1995), which killed a police sergeant, and the shooting of the Dold brothers (1995), when another police officer was killed.
Despite such serious accusations, which, we assume, were supported by a strong evidence base, Deputy Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmin refused to file a complaint against Melnik. His refusal served as an excuse for Ukrainian journalists to dub Kuzmin “Akhmetov’s man” in the Prosecutor General’s Office. After all, Melnyk has long been considered the “lookout” for the “king of Donbass” in Crimea.
Kuzmin is considered a “hawk” in the leadership of the Prosecutor General’s Office. He represents the Donetsk group of influence.
In prosecutor’s circles, Kuzmin is openly called a “lawless man” who is “too Donetsk, even for a person from Donetsk, with all the moral and behavioral consequences that this entails.”
Experts attribute Kuzmin’s lightning-fast rise through the ranks not to his exceptional personal and professional qualities, but to the support of the then-future Prosecutor General (also from Donetsk) and head of the Derzhava party, Gennadiy Vasyliev.
At the end of 2003, Prosecutor General Gennadiy Vasyliev “pulled” his protégé to Kyiv, appointing him one of his deputies and, concurrently, the prosecutor of the capital of Ukraine.
For reference:
The starting point of the Kuzmin family’s acquaintance with Gennadiy Vasilyev is generally considered to be 1993. Back then, before the 1994 parliamentary elections, Renat’s mother, Fedora Anatoliivna, helped candidate Vasilyev get the coveted TV airtime for his campaign. She worked as a TV program editor at Donetsk television, and after a while became Gennadiy Andriyovych’s chief image maker.
After Renat Ravilievich moved to Kyiv to work, his name, along with the names of Vasiliev and Kivalov, appeared on the list of new members of the High Council of Justice of Ukraine, whose functions, among others, include the formation of the judiciary, investigation of disciplinary violations of judges of the Supreme Court and specialized courts and consideration of complaints regarding the prosecution of judges of appellate and local courts and prosecutors.
It is very symbolic that Gennadiy Vasyliev started his career as an intern at the Leninsky District Prosecutor’s Office in Donetsk, just like Renat Kuzmin, only 15 years earlier. Today, we can only speculate whether this curious coincidence influenced to some extent the ex-Prosecutor General’s decision to catalyze the career growth of his favorite Kuzmin, and his two brothers as well.
A separate section of the Presidential Secretariat’s note is devoted to the shortcomings of Prosecutor General Medvedko’s personnel policy. It emphasizes that he “has introduced and is implementing protectionism in the selection and placement of personnel”. In support of this, a list of people who used to work in Donetsk region and now hold senior positions in the Prosecutor General’s Office is provided. Among them are former employees of the Donetsk regional prosecutor’s office, now deputy prosecutors: Viktor Pshonka, Viktor Shchotkin, Renat Kuzmin and Viktor Kudryavtsev.
“With the personal assistance of Oleksandr Medvedko, key positions in the Prosecutor General’s Office are held by people from Donetsk region,” the JV analysts say. The JV considers ten managers of different levels in the Prosecutor General’s Office to be such, including Renat Kuzmin’s cousin Rafael, who is an assistant to one of the deputy prosecutors.
Chernovetsky
There is a lot of talk that Renat Kuzmin, as a candidate for the prosecutor’s “throne” of Kyiv, was to a greater extent the creation not even of the “Donetsk” people, but of the current mayor of the capital, Leonid Chernovetsky. This version owes its emergence primarily to the public statements of Kyiv City Council member Mykhailo Brodsky. It was Brodsky who claimed that Chernovetsky, describing Kuzmin in private conversations, called the latter a “friend” and a “Donetsk lawlessness.”
Estates
Deputy Prosecutor General Kuzmin illegally built a 1,000-square-meter dacha in a protected area near Kyiv, on the territory of the Pushcha-Vodytsia recreation center.
The State Administration of Presidential Affairs allowed the Deputy Prosecutor General to reconstruct and complete the building No. 46/2, as well as to build a guest house, a bathhouse, and a gazebo with a barbecue on the territory of the Pushcha-Vodytsia recreation complex near Kyiv. This is a closed protected area to the north of the capital, where many prominent politicians and officials have received land plots since 2004. In particular, MPs Nestor Shufrych and Bohdan Hubskyi, former Secretary of the National Security Council Raisa Bohatyryova, former Defense Minister Oleksandr Kuzmuk and others. Leonid Chernovetsky issued a decree approving Renat Kuzmin’s plans to settle near his elite neighbors.
Kuzmin’s dacha in Pushcha-Vodytsia:
The right to reconstruct and complete the building, or in other words, to provide Renat Kuzmin with a summer residence in the Pushcha-Vodytsia complex, was issued illegally. In particular, at the time of the relevant order of the Kyiv mayor in 2008, the recreation complex did not have the right to permanent use of the land plot where the scandalous house is located. The right of permanent use arises after its state registration.
Renat Kuzmin did not deny that he had been granted the right to reconstruct the house on the territory of the Pushcha-Vodytsia recreation center. However, he did not want to comment on the information in the press and the interest of MPs in him.
Family.
Several scandals involving the Kuzmin family name are more likely to be related to his cousins, Raphael and Konstantin Izmailovich. The former is hardly inferior to Renat Ravilievich in terms of his odiousness.
Back in 1994, Rafik (as Rafael Izmailovich is rumored to be affectionately called by the Kuzmins’ patron, Vasilyev), then an assistant prosecutor in the Kyiv district of Donetsk, was caught by Berkut officers taking a bribe from two employees of the State Security Service. But here, too, the almighty Vasiliev was not without help. He gave the “necessary” instructions to the head of the investigative department of the Donetsk regional prosecutor’s office and the criminal case was slowed down.
After Gennadiy Vasyliev was appointed Prosecutor General, Rafik became a deputy prosecutor of the Donetsk region.
Those who visited Donetsk drinking and entertainment venues in the late 90s and later, such as the Vienna cafe and the Okolytsia restaurant, can tell a lot about the Kuzmin brothers. Most often, Rafik’s violent temper was observed in the first place, which was located near the editorial office of the Donetsk News newspaper.
And in early 2004, the Kuzmin brothers, in full force, had a family-style meal at the elite Donetsk restaurant Okolytsia, which is owned by the local oligarch Yuriy Ruban, who oversees Donetsk boxing and is friends with the legendary Gennady Uzbek.
Then the brothers got pretty drunk and started a fight in the room, breaking dishes and furniture in the best traditions of cowboy westerns. Is it any wonder that this time the three “bogatyrs” from Donetsk got away with it? “Okolytsia” is located on Shevchenko Boulevard in the Kalininsky district of Donetsk, whose prosecutor at the time was none other than Kuzmin Jr.
Operational reports
The name of the deputy chief of the GPU is known to the general public. In particular, the then Minister of Internal Affairs Yuriy Lutsenko contributed to this. He repeatedly expressed his open dissatisfaction with the leadership of the Prosecutor General’s Office and personally with R. Kuzmin, saying that the most high-profile criminal cases involving corruption and abuse of power were not being pursued there.
In addition, opposition politicians have made claims against Kuzmin that he is fulfilling orders from the Party of Regions and has “trampled” former Prosecutor General Oleksandr Medvedko.
Prosecutor General’s Office conceals the cause of death of teenager after vaccination
The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine has refused to provide the Ministry of Health with information about the results of a forensic examination on the cause of death of a teenager after being vaccinated against measles.
According to a letter signed by Deputy Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmin, the Main Department for Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the Prosecutor General’s Office has ordered an additional forensic medical examination into the death of Anton Tyshchenko, which has been entrusted to experts from the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine.
However, the Ministry of Healthcare of Ukraine believes that delaying the investigation of this case does not benefit either society or the state.
On May 13, 2008, Anton Tyshchenko, a high school student from Kramatorsk, died in intensive care after receiving a measles and rubella vaccination the day before.
According to the Ministry of Health, representatives of the Prosecutor General’s Office seized the pathology materials in May 2008, not allowing the Ministry of Health commission to get acquainted with the results of the analysis, which would have established the real causes of the teenager’s death.
On July 4, the Ministry of Health, which had been repeatedly accused of delaying the investigation, sent a letter requesting that the forensic experts of the Prosecutor General’s Office provide the information or allow the Ministry of Health to examine the materials on their own.
Declaration
According to the declaration filed in March 2021, Renat Kuzmin does not own any real estate. However, he has the right to use some of them. In particular, Renat Kuzmin indicates in the declaration his father’s apartment and his son’s apartment, as well as a residential building and two parts of the living space owned by relatives or third parties.
In addition, Rinat Kuzmin indicates that he owns 4% of an asset under construction in Yalta (Crimea).
Among valuable movable property, Kuzmin has collections of watches, weapons, books and coins. He also lists valuable portfolios and works of art.
Rinat Kuzmin does not own a car, but he lists a MERCEDES-BENZ V 300 D as his right of control and a MERCEDES G 63 AMG as his right of use.
During the year, Rinat Kuzmin earned an income of UAH 863 thousand 306.
Cash assets of Rinat Kuzmin (savings): 6 million 53 thousand 825 hryvnias, 2 million 480 thousand 598 dollars and 225 thousand 769 euros.
In the sheep’s clothing of a lawyer
After the second Maidan, the Kuzmin brothers quickly lost their positions and almost lost their freedom: they had “pissed off” and “upset” too many people during the second rule of the Donetsk people. There were especially many complaints against Renat Kuzmin, who was called almost the main “financial foreman” of the golden Prosecutor General Pshonka. There were many stories in the media that it was Pshonka’s first deputy who oversaw the work of the “prosecutor’s mafia” system, which daily squeezed millions of dollars out of Ukrainians. Kuzmin was also quite rightly sought revenge by Yulia Tymoshenko and especially Yuriy Lutsenko. However, he remained in the public eye for a long time and even participated in the presidential election, where he gained as little as 0.1%.
But in June 2014, a court order was issued to arrest Renat Kuzmin under Article 371, Part 3 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. By that time, Kuzmin had already escaped, so they had to put him on the international wanted list. But in 2015, the situation changed: Interpol declared that Kuzmin’s persecution was political in nature. Apparently, this encouraged Kuzmin considerably, as he decided to radically change his image to that of a “well-known Ukrainian lawyer” and a lawyer from his own Kuzmin and Partners Law Firm.
Now, the former extortionist prosecutor’s favorite pastime is lawyer’s requests and demands, which Kuzmin sent to his sworn enemy Yuriy Lutsenko, who is now the Prosecutor General. He would take up any high-profile topic to accuse Lutsenko of violating procedures and delaying the investigation, of not providing protection for witnesses, of putting pressure on the investigation, of deliberately blocking it — in short, of everything he used to do himself. And Lutsenko responded by… opening a criminal case against the prosecutors who are conducting the criminal proceedings against Renat Kuzmin, for having been involved in it for almost three years.
Interestingly, the criminal proceedings against former Deputy Prosecutor General Kuzmin were initiated not for his numerous “pushbacks” and extortions, but only for his actions against Yuriy Lutsenko and Yulia Tymoshenko. This is a simple personal revenge.
Kuzmin became the “defender and representative” of the mother of the murdered Oles Buzyna:
In just six months, Kuzmin managed to become a “defender and representative” of the mother of the murdered Oles Buzyna, initiated a further investigation of the case of Gongandze and opened a new case against Leonid Kuchma; he accused Yuriy Lutsenko of buying his position (through Oleksandr Onyshchenko) from Petro Poroshenko and of treason. But, apparently, believing that such activities create an insufficiently powerful information and news field, Renat Kuzmin also became a blogger, apparently inspired by the successes of Anatoliy Shariy and Tetyana Montyan.
Renat Kuzmin regrets that supporters of Ukraine were not shot
The former Yanukovych henchman and now Medvedchuk’s ally regrets that there were no Odessans with weapons who shot the pro-Ukrainian march on the anniversary of the May 2 tragedy in Odesa.
Rinat Kuzmin wrote about this on his Facebook page and posted a video of a large-scale march of supporters of Ukraine that took place on May 2, 2021.
He called pro-Ukrainian activists “Nazis” and asked why, seven years ago, Odesa residents with legal firearms “did not put up any resistance,” adding: “and where were you today”.
Yushchenko, Moroz, Sharii and Kuzmin become heroes of a propaganda movie
A number of former Ukrainian officials starred in the propaganda film Ukraine — Eternal Present. It was shown, in particular, on the Russian state-run RT TV channel.
RT claims that in the film, former Ukrainian officials shared stories about 30 years of independence with an American director. However, this is not entirely true.
Although the Russian TV channel added its logo to the video, it was the work of Global 3 Pictures. The Facebook page states that the company is based in California. Its founder is director and producer Ihor Lopatenok, 52.
Lopatenok is from Ukraine but holds Russian citizenship.
According to Wikipedia, Lopatenok holds both American and Russian citizenship, although he was born in the city of Marhanets, Dnipro region. In Ukraine, he studied rocketry. Later he did business in Dnipro and Moscow. In 2003, he entered the movie business and co-founded the Technomedia company. In 2008, he moved to the United States.
Taras Kozak and Renat Kuzmin flew many times from Russia to Crimea using Russian passports — Novaya Gazeta
People’s deputies of Ukraine from OPFL — the owner of Medvedchuk’s channels Taras Kozak and a regular guest of these channels, former Deputy Prosecutor General under Yanukovych Renat Kuzmin — have flown from Russia to the occupied Crimea and other countries many times using Russian passports. This was reported by the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, citing its own sources in law enforcement.
The journalists managed to learn more about the “travels” of MPs who were not delegated to negotiate with the Kremlin on the exchange of prisoners or anything else.
For example, former Deputy Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmin flew the Moscow-Simferopol-Moscow route (sometimes St. Petersburg-Simferopol) about 240 times between 2015 and 2019. However, until the summer of 2019, he was not an MP, but was wanted as a person of interest in investigations launched after the Maidan. The criminal cases against him never went to court. And since he lived in the occupied Crimea, which is part of Ukraine, he did not formally leave the country for a long time, so he was able to participate in the parliamentary elections.
However, in September 2019, already with a parliamentary mandate, Kuzmin twice flew to Simferopol from Moscow. On March 9, 2020, he flew from Minsk to Moscow on a T7-BRG business jet, and the next day he was in a hurry to fly from Moscow to Vilnius on a T7-GEM. According to the sources, Kuzmin was traveling with his fellow party members Taras Kozak and Oleksandr Koltunovych, as well as oil businessman from Belarus Nikolai Vorobey. The latter is under EU sanctions and is one of the owners of PrykarpatZakhidtrans. It operates a part of the Samara-Western Direction oil pipeline, which supplies diesel fuel from Russia and Belarus to Ukraine and for transit to the EU — the so-called Medvedchuk pipe, which was arrested after sanctions were imposed on him in 2021.
Interestingly, Kuzmin allegedly used a Russian passport 88*****69 to travel from Russia to third countries, but there is no “88” series in Russia.
Parliamentary candidate Renat Kuzmin has not lived in Ukraine for the past five years
The Prosecutor General’s Office has stated that parliamentary candidate Renat Kuzmin has not lived in Ukraine for the past five years.
The press secretary of the Prosecutor General Larysa Sargan wrote about this on Facebook.
“On June 20, 2019, a letter signed by the Deputy Prosecutor General was sent to the Deputy Chairman of the Central Election Commission Yevhen Radchenko, which stated that a criminal investigation was being conducted on suspicion of… Kuzmin of committing particularly serious crimes, including legalization (laundering) of property obtained by criminal means, for which the law provides for a sentence of imprisonment for a term of eight to 15 years with confiscation of property,” Sargan said.
She emphasized that during the investigative actions it was not possible to establish Kuzmin’s actual location on the territory of Ukraine, and he was put on the wanted list.
According to law enforcement officials, Kuzmin could have been hiding from the pre-trial investigation authorities not only in the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, but also in the Russian Federation.
“However, this ‘candidate’ was quietly registered as a candidate on the list of one of the parties and remained unnoticed by both the media and activists,” added Sargan.
The Ministry of Justice caught Renat Kuzmin’s mistress on a bribe
Alisa Oskirko wanted to enrich hryvnia 200 thousand.
The Prosecutor General’s Office has detained Alisa Oskirko, head of the accreditation and monitoring of state registration entities of the Department of State Registration and Notary of the Ministry of Justice, and her deputy for bribery. According to Ukrayinska Pravda, Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko announced the detentions on his Facebook page, though he did not name them.
“We are cleaning up the accreditation, control and monitoring department of the Ministry of Justice. The head and deputy head of the department were detained for another tranche of bribes,” he wrote.
Lutsenko did not specify the name, but a source in the Prosecutor General’s Office confirmed that it was Alisa Oskirko.
Lutsenko also posted a photo with a box of dollars, but did not specify how much was given to the bribe-takers.
Collaborator
Member of Parliament from the Opposition Platform — For Life party. During the Yanukovych era, as First Deputy Prosecutor General, he was involved in the case against Yuriy Lutsenko. After the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2014, he was one of Moscow’s most outspoken lobbyists. So much so that in 2020, he earned the title of “The Worst Speaker on Television” according to Detector Media. After Russia’s February 24 attack, Kuzmin posted two posts on Facebook that illustrate that he is scum.
On February 25, the former politician published a historical account worthy of Putin. According to him, the war was started by Turchynov, and then all Ukrainian leaders “shot, bombed, imprisoned, maimed and humiliated the inhabitants of the rebellious Donbas.” Russia supports the self-proclaimed republics in the same way that “NATO countries still support the Kyiv conspirators.” There are also accusations of Nazism against Ukraine. And at the end of the three appeals, there is the immediate resignation of the government, the creation of a “non-Bander state,” and the refusal of citizens to sacrifice themselves for “a gang of Nazi criminals and a clown president.” In other words, the demands are the same as Putin’s.
On November 26, the collaborator decided to criticize the distribution of weapons in Kyiv. He tried to make the defenders of Ukraine look like criminals, but that’s not the worst part of the message. Kuzmin accused Ukrainians of shooting a family in Kyiv. And then he justified Russia’s killing of civilians: “But assault rifles in the hands of civilians change everything, assault rifles equate civilians with the military. This means that any soldier from any side of the conflict has the right to kill a civilian, mistaking him for the enemy, even if the civilian was just peacefully smoking on a bench near his entrance with a machine gun under his arm. At the same time, other civilians, such as the smoker’s neighbors, who are sitting on the same bench but without assault rifles, may be accidentally injured.”
Not a single mention of Russia as the aggressor in any of these messages. We suspect that Kuzmin is also no longer in Ukraine. But we will bring him back for trial.
Summary
Renat Kuzmin is a corrupt ex-deputy prosecutor who released a huge number of criminal authorities, while imprisoning no less than a similar number of innocent people. He got rich, stole a piece of recreational land, and now treason has been added to his long list of criminal acts.