Viktor Viktorovych Shemchuk (Ukrainian: Віктор Вікторович Шемчук; born 4 November 1970) is a Ukrainian politician.
Early life
Shemchuk was born on 4 November 1970 in the city of Ternopil, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union.[2] After graduating from the University of Lviv in 1993 within the Faculty of Law, he started working as an intern at the Prosecutor's Office of Ternopil.[2] He steadily worked his way up within the office until 1999, becoming an assistant prosecutor, investigator, then senior investigator.[2]
In January 1999, he transferred to the Proseecutor's Office of Simferopol, becoming an investigator there.[2] He was then appointed Deputy Head of the Department for Oversight of Special Units Fighting Organized Crime there, and was the head of that department until 2005.[2] In 2005, he was briefly acting prosecutor for AR Crimea, before being fully appointed as prosecutor for AR Crimea until 2007.[2]
Political career
In 2007 he served as a Presidential representative of Ukraine in Crimea.[2] That same year, he served as Acting Prosecutor General of Ukraine, and then again as Prosecutor of AR Crimea.[2] However, with the ban on dual mandates, when he was elected during the 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election as a People's Deputy, he gave up those positions. He was elected from Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc, as no. 33 on the list, and served as a member of the Committee on Legislative Support of Law Enforcement, and he served for one term until 2012.[2]
In March 2014, he came back into power when he was appointed Governor of Lviv Oblast, which he did until October 2013.[2] He then became an adviser to the President of Ukraine.[2]
Later years
In 2014, after his retirement from politics, he became an associate professor Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National Ground Forces Academy in Lviv, working there until 2016.[2] Simultaneously, he worked as a scientific consultant to the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Law Enforcement and as deputy head of the working group on cyber-security and cybercrime legislation reform.[2] Since 2017, he has been deputy chair of the Qualification‑Disciplinary Commission of Prosecutors.[2]
