Valeriy Davydenko

Valeriy Davydenko (Ukrainian: Валерій Миколайович Давиденко, 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]

Valeriy Davydenko
People's Deputy of Ukraine
9th convocation
In office
29 August 2019 – 23 May 2020
ConstituencyZastup No. 1
8th convocation
In office
24 November 2014 – 24 July 2019
Personal details
Born16 March 1973
Nosivka, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR
Died (aged 47)
Kiev, Ukraine
Political partyZastup
Our Land
Children2
Alma materNational University of Food Technologies

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 Kiev on 23 May 2020.[3]

References
  1. (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)
  2. (in Ukrainian) People's Deputy Valery Davydenko was found dead in, Glavcom (23 May 2020)
  3. Ukrainian MP Valeriy Davydenko found dead in own office's restroom, UNIAN (23 May 2020)
  4. (in Russian) List of parties in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, ITAR-TASS (24 October 2014)
  5. Poroshenko Bloc candidates leading in 64 single-seat constituencies - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (27 October 2014)
  6. 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
  7. http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/radan_gs09/ns_golos?g_id=8580
  8. https://www.segodnya.ua/vybory2019/news/na-208-m-okruge-v-chernigovskoy-oblasti-slugu-naroda-panchenko-pobedil-nardep-davidenko-1308298.html
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