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Olena Lukash
Ukrainian jurist and politician
Olena Leonidovna Lukash (Ukrainian: Олена Леонідівна Лукаш; born 12 November 1976) is a Ukrainian former jurist, politician, former Minister of Justice of Ukraine, as well as a former member of the Party of Regions. She was a Merited Jurist of Ukraine (2010).[1]
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From February 2014, Lukash was wanted for charges of murder and mass complicity in the Revolution of Dignity when President Yanukovych fled to Russia. [2][3][4] She is believed to have fled to Russia in the aftermath of the Revolution of Dignity.[5] From then she was also placed on an EU sanctions list.[6] From June 2015 Lukash was also wanted on abuse of office and fraud charges.[7] On November 5, 2015, the Security Service of Ukraine arrested Olena Lukash upon her return to Kyiv from Russia,[8] and a court was opened to file charges against her. However on November 10, she was released on bail of over 5 million Hryvnia after she claimed that she deliberately had gone to the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine to give evidence for an investigation into the deaths of over a hundred people in the Revolution of Dignity.[9] In 2020, it was alleged that Lukash was currently hosting a program and guest-appearing on pro-Russian channels owned by Viktor Medvedchuk, as part of a wider Russian disinformation campaign against Ukraine.[10]