| Svyatoslav Piskun Святослав Піскун |
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|---|---|
| Piskun in December 2004 | |
| Prosecutor General of Ukraine | |
| In office April 26, 2007 – May 24, 2007 |
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| Succeeded by | Oleksandr Medvedko (since June 1, 2007) |
| Prosecutor General of Ukraine | |
| In office December 10, 2004 – October 14, 2005 |
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| Prosecutor General of Ukraine | |
| In office July 06, 2002 – October 29, 2003 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | March 8, 1959 Berdychiv, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Political party | Independent |
| Spouse(s) | Svitlana Sevast'yanivna (1962) |
| Children | Tetyana (1983), Svyatoslav (2000) |
| Residence | Kiev, Ukraine |
| Religion | Jewish |
Svyatoslav Mykhaylovych Piskun (Ukrainian: Святослав Михайлович Піскун, born March 8, 1959) was the 3 times Prosecutor General of Ukraine in 2002-2003, 2005 and 2007 till President Viktor Yuschenko's dismissed Piskun on May 24, 2007.[1] He is an important participant of several scandals, including the cases of Georgiy R. Gongadze murder and United Energy Systems of Ukraine of Yulia Tymoshenko.
On March, 2006 he was elected as people deputy of Verkhovna Rada from Party of Regions list as №96 - but he was not party member.[2]
Piskun is the only statesman in Ukraine whose sacking by two different Presidents has been subsequently dismissed each time by the courts.[3] The latest being an April 24, 2009 Kyiv Court of Appeals passing of a ruling saying President Yuschenko's decree dated May 24, 2007, dismissing Sviatoslav Piskun from the post of the prosecutor general was unlawful,[1][4] but Piskun did not submit any application for his reinstating on the post of Prosecutor General.[4]