Serhiy Labaziuk

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Petrovych and the family name is Labaziuk.

Serhiy Labaziuk
Сергій Лабазюк
Labaziuk in 2019
People's Deputy of Ukraine
Incumbent
Assumed office
12 December 2012
Preceded byConstituency established
ConstituencyKhmelnytskyi Oblast, No. 188
Personal details
Born (1980-06-04) 4 June 1980 (age 44)
Volochysk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Political partyZM (since 2020)
Other political
affiliations
Alma materTernopil Institute of National Economy

Serhiy Petrovych Labaziuk (Ukrainian: Сергій Петрович Лабазюк; born 4 June 1980) is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine since 12 December 2012 from Ukraine's 188th electoral district.

Early life and career

Serhiy Petrovych Labaziuk was born in Volochysk in the Soviet Union on 4 June 1980. He graduated from the Ternopil Institute of National Economy (now the West Ukrainian National University), specialising in economic and human resource management,[1] in 2004.[2] In 1999, he began his career in farming, and in 2004 rented his first farm, also founding Agrarian Company 2004 LLC the same year.[1]

Political career

In 2006, Labaziuk became a member of the Volochysk City Council. The next year, he was an unsuccessful candidate for People's Deputy of Ukraine in the 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election from the Lytvyn Bloc as the 189th party list member. In 2010, he became a member of the Khmelnytskyi Oblast Council from the People's Party.[1]

In the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Labaziuk was a successful candidate for People's Deputy in Ukraine's 188th electoral district, winning with 28.39% of the vote. He ran as an independent.[3] Labaziuk was subsequently re-elected in the 2014 and 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary elections with 35.81% and 49.78% of the vote, respectively.[4][5]

In the 8th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada, Labaziuk was a member of the People's Will group of People's Deputies. He joined For the Future in 2020. He is a member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Agricultural and Land Policies.[6]

On 21 November 2023 the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) and the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) reported suspicion of Labaziuk of corruption in Ukraine; claiming he had been "providing undue benefits to the Deputy Prime Minister for the Reconstruction of Ukraine, the Minister of Development of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure of Ukraine and the head of the State Agency for Reconstruction and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine."[7] On 28 November 2023 the court sent him under arrest until 21 January 2023 with the possibility of paying a bail of 40 million hryvnias.[8] The same day Labaziuk was released from the pretrial detention center on bail.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Лабазюк Сергій Петрович" [Labaziuk, Serhiy Petrovych]. LB.ua (in Ukrainian). 19 February 2020. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  2. ^ "Лабазюк Сергій Петрович" [Labaziuk, Serhiy Petrovych]. Slovo i Dilo (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  3. ^ "Одномандатний виборчий округ №188" [Single-mandate electoral district No. 188]. Central Election Commission. Archived from the original on 30 July 2019. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  4. ^ "Одномандатний виборчий округ №188" [Single-mandate electoral district No. 188]. Central Election Commission of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). 18 July 2019. Archived from the original on 29 July 2019. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  5. ^ "Відомості про підрахунок голосів виборців в одномандатному виборчому окрузі №188" [Information on counting of voters' votes in single-mandate electoral district No. 188]. Central Election Commission of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 5 August 2019. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  6. ^ "Лабазюк Сергій Петрович" [Labaziuk, Serhiy Petrovych]. Chesno (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  7. ^ MP Labaziuk notified of suspicion of attempting to bribe top officials in reconstruction, Interfax-Ukraine (21.11.2023)
  8. ^ a b Ukrainian: Language People's deputy Labaziuk left the pretrial detention center on the day of his arrest, Ukrainska Pravda (29.11.2023)