Volodymyr Satsyuk is the former deputy head of Ukraine

Ukraine

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’s secret police. He is suspected of involvement in the poisoning of Ukrainian president

President of Ukraine

Prior to the formation of the modern Ukrainian presidency, the previous Ukrainian head of state office was officially established in exile by Andriy Livytskyi. At first the de facto leader of nation was the president of the Central Rada at early years of the Ukrainian People's Republic, while the...

 Viktor Yushchenko

Viktor Yushchenko

Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko is a former President of Ukraine. He took office on January 23, 2005, following a period of popular unrest known as the Orange Revolution...

 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

Dioxin

Polychlorinated dibenzodioxins , or simply dioxins, are a group of organic polyhalogenated compounds that are significant environmental pollutants. They are commonly but inaccurately referred to as dioxins for simplicity, because every PCDD molecule contains a dioxin skeletal structure as the...

. Yushchenko had attended a private dinner on 5 September 2004 held at Satsyuk's residence, during that year's Ukrainian presidential elections. He was accompanied by two assistants, Taras Zalessky and Alexei Poletukha, the former vice-president of the Bank of Ukraine

National Bank of Ukraine

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. According to the Times

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 newspaper, "Ukraine’s pro-Russian government at the time was opposed to Yushchenko, fearing his pro-western tendencies and ambitions for Ukraine to join Nato." Satsyuk is currently in hiding in Moscow

Moscow

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, Russia

Russia

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, where the government has given him Russian citizenship

Russian nationality law

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, meaning he cannot be extradited for trial to another country.