Stepan Ivakhiv

Stepan Ivakhiv
Степан Івахів
Official portrait, 2019
People's Deputy of Ukraine
Incumbent
Assumed office
12 December 2012
Preceded byConstituency established
ConstituencyVolyn Oblast, No. 21
Personal details
Born (1968-01-24) 24 January 1968
Andriyivka, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
PartyFor the Future
Other political
affiliations
Independent

Stepan Petrovych Ivakhiv (Ukrainian: Степан Петрович Івахів; born 24 January 1968) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine representing Ukraine's 21st electoral district as a member of For the Future since 2019, having previously represented the district as an independent since 2012. He is co-owner of the Continuum FIG and the WOG gas station network, and is among the 100 richest people in Ukraine.[1]

Biography

He was born on 24 January 1968, in the village of Andriyivka, Busk district, Lviv Oblast.

In 1992, he graduated from the Rivne Institute of Water Management.[2]

Business activity

Founder and co-owner of FIG "Continuum" (Lutsk) with Ihor Yeremeyev.[3] Western Oil Group (WOG) is part of Continuum Group.[4][5] As of 2023 50% of WOG shares were owned by Ivakhiv ex-wife Svitlana (according to WOG's own documentation).[6]

As of 2019, Ivakhiv's fortune is estimated at $93 million.[7]

Political activity

In 2010 he was elected a deputy of the Volyn regional council in a multi-member constituency on the electoral list of the Volyn regional organization of the Party of Regions. Member of the Standing Committee on International Cooperation, Foreign Economic Relations and Investment.[8]

In the 2012 parliamentary election, he ran for the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) as a self-nominated candidate in Ukraine's 21st electoral district (Kovel, Kovel, Ratniv, Starovyzhiv, Shatsk districts) and won, receiving more than 37% of the vote and less than one percent ahead of Ihor Huz.

On 1 November 2018, he was included in the sanctions list of Russia.

On 29 August 2019, he joined the For the Future faction in the Verkhovna Rada.[9]

Since 29 August 2019, Ivakhiv is First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Environmental Policy and Nature Management.[10] Member of the Group for Interparliamentary Relations with the Czech Republic since 19 November 2019.[11] Since 18 December 2019, a member of the group for inter-parliamentary relations with Sweden.[12] Member of the Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with Slovenia since 18 December 2019.[13] He has been a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Relations Group with Canada since 15 October 2019.[14]

Criticism

According to analysts of the CHESNO Movement, Ivakhiva's company makes money on the "green" tariff.

He was a truant from committee meetings in the Verkhovna Rada of the 8th convocation. He was engaged in non-personal voting. He is a subject of an anti-corruption investigation into political corruption. Voted for dictatorial laws on January 16, 2014.[15]

He was engaged in bribing voters. In particular, the charity fund "Patriots of Volyn" of self-nominated candidate Stepan Ivakhiv presented a blanket and various household appliances to the winners of the nominations during the celebration of the Day of Rostan village in Shatsk district, Volyn region.[16] According to the Civil Network "OPORA", it became known that in September 2014, on the eve of the parliamentary elections, a gift certificate from parliamentary candidate Stepan Ivakhiv for the construction of a stadium near the school was placed in the corridor of secondary school No. 12 in Kovel.[17]

References

  1. ↑ "Перелік та керівництво комітетів: Рада затвердила склад усіх комітетів нового парламенту. Повний список - Політика - TCH.ua". 30 August 2019. Archived from the original on 30 August 2019. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  2. ↑ "Івахів Степан Петрович - биография, досье, компромат, рейтинг, новости - Досьє - Останні новини - Forbes Україна". 9 June 2019. Archived from the original on 9 June 2019. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  3. ↑ "Корецький Сергій Федорович – Рік народження: 1978" [Koretskyi Serhii Fedorovych – Year of birth: 1978]. Chesno (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 17 July 2026.
  4. ↑ "Корецький Сергій Федорович – Прем'єр-міністр України" [Koretskyi Serhii Fedorovych – Prime Minister of Ukraine]. LB.ua (in Ukrainian). 16 July 2026. Retrieved 17 July 2026.
  5. ↑ Ihor Orel (30 January 2023). "Підвішений спадок. Судова війна за частку Ігоря Єремеєва у групі «Континіум» спалахнула з новою силою" [A Suspended Inheritance. The Legal War Over Ihor Yeremeyev's Share in the Continuum Group Has Flared Up with New Force]. Forbes Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 17 July 2026.
  6. ↑ Ihor Orel (30 January 2023). "Підвішений спадок. Судова війна за частку Ігоря Єремеєва у групі «Континіум» спалахнула з новою силою" [A Suspended Inheritance. The Legal War Over Ihor Yeremeyev's Share in the Continuum Group Has Flared Up with New Force]. Forbes Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 17 July 2026.
  7. ↑ "Івахів Степан Петрович - биография, досье, компромат, рейтинг, новости - Досьє - Останні новини - Forbes Україна". Archived from the original on 6 March 2019. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  8. ↑ "deputat.volyn.ua". deputat.volyn.ua. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  9. ↑ "Офіційний портал Верховної Ради України". w1.c1.rada.gov.ua. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  10. ↑ "Офіційний портал Верховної Ради України". w1.c1.rada.gov.ua. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  11. ↑ "Офіційний портал Верховної Ради України". w1.c1.rada.gov.ua. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  12. ↑ "Офіційний портал Верховної Ради України". w1.c1.rada.gov.ua. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  13. ↑ "Офіційний портал Верховної Ради України". w1.c1.rada.gov.ua. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  14. ↑ "Офіційний портал Верховної Ради України". 21 September 2018. Archived from the original on 21 September 2018. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  15. ↑ "133 "голосувальники за диктатуру" знову балотуються до парламенту (ОНОВЛЕНО)". www.chesno.org (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  16. ↑ "ОПОРА - Громадянська мережа - вибори в Україні - Election in Ukraine". 6 November 2021. Archived from the original on 6 November 2021. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  17. ↑ "На Волині у школі вивісили сертифікат на півтора мільйона від кандидата в депутати". ОПОРА - Громадянська мережа - вибори в Україні - Election in Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
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