Anton Herashchenko

Anton Yuriyovych Gerashchenko (, born 10 February 1979) is a current official advisor and a former deputy minister at the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs. He is a former member of the Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) from 2014 to 2019,

Biography When Arsen Avakov became the Minister of Internal Affairs in 2014, Gerashchenko became his adviser. the Azov Battalion, and the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.

Gerashchenko was elected to parliament in the 26 October 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, representing the People's Front in the multi-mandate nationwide district, he was placed 21st (as an independent candidate) on the party's election list.

He was secretary of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament) Committee on Legislative Support of Law Enforcement. In parliament, one of his assistant-consultants was the future Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky.

In January 2017, it was announced that the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) had prevented an assassination attempt against Gerashchenko. On 4 August 2021, he was dismissed as deputy minister. In late September 2021, Gerashchenko was appointed the coordinator of the new "Office for Business Protection"#tag:ref|This bureau was established to improve communications between entrepreneurs and the security forces.