Scandalous facts about Yanukovych: how a former prisoner became the president of Ukraine and almost destroyed it

0

The highest and most scandalous president of Ukraine

I don't really want to tell the story of the life of this so-called president. We think that you yourself remember all the scandals connected with him. However, in this material, we decided to talk about Yanukovych's convictions, which were reported on “Telegraf”. And also to share facts from the life of the “traitor” that you might not know.

15 scandalous facts from the biography of Viktor Yanukovych

Viktor Yanukovych was born in the village of Zhukivka in Donetsk region on July 9, 1950 . Age — 74 years. The sign of the Zodiac is Cancer.

Yanukovych was born into a family of a metallurgist and a nurse. When he was two years old, his mother died, and his father's new family did not accept Vitya, so he lived with his grandmother.

The fugitive president had a difficult childhood in poverty, which may have led him to criminal activities . In 1968, at the age of 17, he received his first criminal conviction for robbery, which involved three years in prison, but he served only half a year in a children's colony for cooperating with the administration.

Yanukovych has many criminal records. In 1970, he worked as a gas engineer at the Yenakiyiv Metallurgical Plant, but again found himself on the dock — this time for causing bodily harm, receiving two years in prison, which he served in full.

When Yanukovych decided to build a political career, they tried to hide information about his criminal record. Initially, in the autobiography submitted on November 18, 2002 in the Verkhovna Rada before being appointed to the post of prime minister, he noted these convictions. However, later this information was tried to be “erased”. It was reported that Yanukovych's convictions were allegedly not only canceled, but also recognized as a mistake by the courts, but it is impossible to verify this, because the documents were destroyed after the statute of limitations expired or “lost”.

After the events on the Maidan, the shooting of the Heavenly Hundred and Yanukovych's escape from Ukraine opened a number of criminal cases against him. He is accused of abuse of power, corruption, large-scale embezzlement and treason.

In January 2019, the Obolonsky District Court of Kyiv sentenced Viktor Yanukovych in absentia to 13 years in prison. He was found guilty of high treason and aiding in waging an aggressive war against Ukraine.

Viktor Yanukovych is the tallest president of Ukraine. His height is 192 cm.

Yanukovych has published the most books among the presidents of Ukraine (we doubt that he wrote even one of them himself). The ex-president earned 31.5 million hryvnias from 30 “manuscripts.”

From the very beginning of the 2004 election campaign, Viktor Yanukovych repeatedly found himself in curious situations, which later became popular topics of popular humor and memes. For example, the word “Professor” became an Internet meme that symbolized not only Yanukovych, but also politicians with a low level of literacy in general, who strive to appear educated. Similar excuses of Yanukovych later began to be called “Yanukisms”.

p style=”text-align:center;”>