Viktoria Oleksandrivna Kinzburska (Ukrainian: Вікторія Олександрівна Кінзбурська; born 23 October 1980) is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 171st electoral district since 29 August 2019. She is a member of Servant of the People.
Viktoria Kinzburska | |
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Вікторія Кінзбурська | |
 Official portrait, 2019 | |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| Assumed office 29 August 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Vitaliy Khomutynnik |
| Constituency | Kharkiv Oblast, No. 171 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 October 1980 Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
| Political party | Servant of the People |
| Other political affiliations | Independent |
| Alma mater | Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University |
Early life and career
editViktoria Oleksandrivna Kinzburska was born on 23 October 1980 in the city of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine. She is a graduate of the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, and in 2008 she became a certified lawyer.[1]
Before being elected, Kinzburska worked as head of the finance department of the Kontur company. Prior to 2017, Kinzburska was chief legal adviser to the legal team of the Kharkiv City Council's Department of Territorial Control. Afterwards, she worked in the Department of Social Protection of Kharkiv Oblast for a short time before moving to the Department of Architecture and Building Inspection of Kharkiv Oblast, where she was head of the department's legal team until her election.[1]
Political career
editKinzburska was the candidate of Servant of the People in Ukraine's 171st electoral district during the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election. At the time of the election she was an independent.[1] She was ultimately successfully elected, defeating the next-closest candidate, Andriy Lesyk of Opposition Platform — For Life, with 38.01% of the vote to Lesyk's 26.95%.[2]
In the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament), Kinzburska joined the Servant of the People faction. She also joined the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Taxes, and Customs Policy.[3]
Kinzburska was one of the Servant of the People deputies involved in an October 2019 corruption scandal. She was accused by party leadership of accepting bribes of US$30,000 to vote against measures which would have prevented online intermediary services for property appraisers, linked to independent People's Deputy Anton Yatsenko, from making billions of hryvnias in profits from the purchase and sale of property.[3][4]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Кінзбурська Вікторія Олександрівна" [Kinzburska, Viktoria Oleksandrivna]. LB.ua (in Ukrainian). 30 December 2019. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
- ^ "Відомості про підрахунок голосів виборців в одномандатному виборчому окрузі №171" [Information about counting of voters' votes in electoral district No. 171]. Central Election Commission (Ukraine) (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 28 July 2019. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
- ^ a b "Кінзбурська Вікторія Олександрівна" [Kinzburska, Viktoria Oleksandrivna]. Chesno (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 14 December 2022.
- ^ Denkov, Dmytro (22 October 2019). "Детектор брехні і $30 тисяч для "Слуги народу". Як депутати Зеленського посварилися через схеми Яценка" [Lie detectors and $30,000 for Servants of the People: How Zelenskyy's deputies fought over Yatsenko's schemes]. Ukrainska Pravda (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 14 December 2022.