Oleksandr Onishchenko

Oleksandr Romanovych Onyshchenko (, 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, under new administration in the White House Onishchenko, was sanctioned in the United States in connection with his support of Donald Trump during the presidential elections.

Early life Oleksandr Onyshchenko was born on March 31, 1969. Some Ukrainian media claim that previously Onyshchenko carried a different family name - Oleksandr Radzhabovych Kadyrov.

Business career

Onyshchenko started his career in 1990, where he worked in the oil and gas industry. Onyshchenko has also been implicated in running a fraud and money laundering scheme that traded approximately US$1.5 billion in illicit assets. Onyshchenko was named as part of the Quickpace deal between Onyshchenko, Pavel Fuchs, and “Prontoservus,” reportedly a front for Serhiy Kurchenko. No investigation ever been launched by the law enforcement agencies following the news publications.

While in exile, Onyshchenko reportedly bought a horse stud farm with intentions to host invitational equestrian tournaments. However, Onyshchenko failed to receive the necessary visa and work permits required to operate such a tournament within Germany. As of 2022 all immigration formalities were cleared in Germany.

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 2014 he was re-elected in the same district as an independent candidate. whom he accused of corruption. People's Will expelled him in June 2017.

In Ukraine the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine has charged Onyschenko as the founder and head of a criminal organization, allegedly whose members in the period from January 2014 to June 2016 stole funds during the production and sale of natural gas under joint venture agreements with UkrGasVydobuvannya.

Onyshchenko initially fled to the United Kingdom, then to Germany, and finally Spain, where he reportedly currently resides.

Show jumping and philanthropy Onyshchenko became a professional show jumping rider in 2000, which at the end of the same year was announced as bankrupt and was withdrawn from the football competitions (see 2013-14 Ukrainian Premier League).

Onyshchenko is the founder and director of "Top Ukraine", a charity to promote "sport, fashion, art and culture in Ukraine".

Personal life Onyshchenko has two children. (According to Ukrainian media) in 2009, he was engaged to Ukrainian model Snejana Onopka, but the couple did not marry. In 2017 their son Roman was born.

In August 2016, Onyshchenko moved to London, UK because he feared for his life claiming "president (Petro Poroshenko) organises everything to kill me."

In the Russian register of companies Onyshchenko appears in a February 2021 registration documents as a citizen of Russia. The government of North Macedonia decided to revoke this decision (to grant citizenship to Onishchenko) early December 2022.