Oleksandr Onyshchenko member of political party Party of Regions
Oleksandr Romanovych Onyshchenko (Ukrainian: Олександр Романович Онищенко, born March 31, 1969) is a Ukrainian ex-politician, show jumping rider and patron. Onyshchenko was previously a member of the Ukrainian Parliament and a member of pro-Russian Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych’s Party of Regions. In the summer of 2016, while a member of Parliament, Onyshchenko fled Ukraine after he was stripped of immunity by the Parliament of Ukraine and the General Prosecutor Office expressed intention to arrest him due to charges related to alleged corruption and money laundering. In May 2020 Prosecutor's office of Ukraine extradition request was denied by the German court. Since 2016, he has resided in European Union. As of 2019, Onyshchenko was reportedly residing in Spain.In January 2021, Onishchenko, as a member of the Russian network of influence, was personally sanctioned in the United States in connection with his interference in the American elections and the distribution of edited audio recordings of conversations between former American and Ukrainian officials in order to spread false allegations of corruption in Ukraine.Political career
In 2007, Onyshchenko was appointed as an assistant Minister for Emergencies and affairs in protection of population from the consequences of the Chernobyl Catastrophe (today State Emergency Service of Ukraine). He was first elected as a member of the Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election. In 2012 he was elected to parliament in electoral district 93 (located in Kyiv Oblast) for Party of Regions. In 2014 he was re-elected  in the same district as an independent candidate. In parliament he became a member of the parliamentary faction People's Will.
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