Stepan Ivakhiv

Ukrainian businessman and politician

Степан Івахів
Official portrait, 2019
People's Deputy of Ukraine
Incumbent
Assumed office
12 December 2012Preceded byConstituency establishedConstituencyVolyn Oblast, No. 21 Personal detailsBorn (1968-01-24) 24 January 1968 (age 56)
Andriyivka, Krasne hromada [uk], Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)Political partyFor the FutureOther political
affiliationsIndependent

Stepan Petrovych Ivakhiv (Ukrainian: Степан Петрович Івахів; born 24 January 1968) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine representing Ukraine's 21st electoral district as a member of For the Future since 2019, having previously represented the district as an independent since 2012. He is co-owner of the Continuum FIG and the WOG gas station network, and is among the 100 richest people in Ukraine.[1]

Biography

He was born on 24 January 1968, in the village of Andriyivka, Busk district, Lviv Oblast.

In 1992, he graduated from the Rivne Institute of Water Management.[2]

Business activity

Founder and co-owner of FIG "Continuum".

As of 2019, Ivakhiv's fortune is estimated at $93 million.[3]

Political activity

In 2010 he was elected a deputy of the Volyn regional council in a multi-member constituency on the electoral list of the Volyn regional organization of the Party of Regions. Member of the Standing Committee on International Cooperation, Foreign Economic Relations and Investment.[4]

In the 2012 parliamentary election, he ran for the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) as a self-nominated candidate in Ukraine's 21st electoral district (Kovel, Kovel, Ratniv, Starovyzhiv, Shatsk districts) and won, receiving more than 37% of the vote and less than one percent ahead of Ihor Huz.

On 1 November 2018, he was included in the sanctions list of Russia.

On 29 August 2019, he joined the For the Future faction in the Verkhovna Rada.[5]

Since 29 August 2019, Ivakhiv is First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Environmental Policy and Nature Management.[6] Member of the Group for Interparliamentary Relations with the Czech Republic since 19 November 2019.[7] Since 18 December 2019, a member of the group for inter-parliamentary relations with Sweden.[8] Member of the Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with Slovenia since 18 December 2019.[9] He has been a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Relations Group with Canada since 15 October 2019.[10]

Criticism

According to analysts of the CHESNO Movement, Ivakhiva's company makes money on the "green" tariff.

He was a truant from committee meetings in the Verkhovna Rada of the 8th convocation. He was engaged in non-personal voting. He is a subject of an anti-corruption investigation into political corruption. Voted for dictatorial laws on January 16, 2014.[11]

He was engaged in bribing voters. In particular, the charity fund "Patriots of Volyn" of self-nominated candidate Stepan Ivakhiv presented a blanket and various household appliances to the winners of the nominations during the celebration of the Day of Rostan village in Shatsk district, Volyn region.[12] According to the Civil Network "OPORA", it became known that in September 2014, on the eve of the parliamentary elections, a gift certificate from parliamentary candidate Stepan Ivakhiv for the construction of a stadium near the school was placed in the corridor of secondary school No. 12 in Kovel.[13]

References

  1. ^ "Перелік та керівництво комітетів: Рада затвердила склад усіх комітетів нового парламенту. Повний список - Політика - TCH.ua". 30 August 2019. Archived from the original on 30 August 2019. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  2. ^ "Івахів Степан Петрович - биография, досье, компромат, рейтинг, новости - Досьє - Останні новини - Forbes Україна". 9 June 2019. Archived from the original on 9 June 2019. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  3. ^ "Івахів Степан Петрович - биография, досье, компромат, рейтинг, новости - Досьє - Останні новини - Forbes Україна". Archived from [forbes.net.ua/ua/persons/316-ivahiv-stepan-petrovich the original] on 6 March 2019. Retrieved 17 January 2022. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  4. ^ "deputat.volyn.ua". deputat.volyn.ua. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  5. ^ "Офіційний портал Верховної Ради України". w1.c1.rada.gov.ua. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  6. ^ "Офіційний портал Верховної Ради України". w1.c1.rada.gov.ua. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  7. ^ "Офіційний портал Верховної Ради України". w1.c1.rada.gov.ua. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  8. ^ "Офіційний портал Верховної Ради України". w1.c1.rada.gov.ua. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  9. ^ "Офіційний портал Верховної Ради України". w1.c1.rada.gov.ua. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  10. ^ "Офіційний портал Верховної Ради України". 21 September 2018. Archived from the original on 21 September 2018. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  11. ^ "133 "голосувальники за диктатуру" знову балотуються до парламенту (ОНОВЛЕНО)". www.chesno.org (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  12. ^ "ОПОРА - Громадянська мережа - вибори в Україні - Election in Ukraine". 6 November 2021. Archived from the original on 6 November 2021. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  13. ^ "На Волині у школі вивісили сертифікат на півтора мільйона від кандидата в депутати". ОПОРА - Громадянська мережа - вибори в Україні - Election in Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2021.