Volodymyr Satsyuk

Volodymyr Satsyuk (born 11 March 1963) is the former deputy head of Ukraine’s intelligence agency. He is suspected of involvement in the poisoning of Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko in 2004.

Career Satsyuk was a businessman before he joined the Security Service of Ukraine, where he eventually became the Deputy Chairman.

Allegations Ukrainian prosecutors, after interviewing over 1,000 people, identified Satsyuk as being potentially involved in the poisoning of Yuschenko with dioxin. during that year's Ukrainian presidential elections. He was accompanied by two assistants, Taras Zalessky and Alexei Poletukha, the former vice-president of the JS Bank «Ukraine». When Yanukovich became president of Ukraine, Satsyuk was removed from the wanted list and returned to his home town Malyn in the summer of 2011.