Prosecutor's office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea

The Prosecutor's office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea - is a State Government Body. According to the Constitution and the Ukrainian Law, its functions at the Autonomous Republic of Crimea are prosecution, representation, supervision and control. According to the Acting Prosecutor General's decree No33 dated June 12, 2014, the Prosecutor's office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea was temporarily relocated to Kyiv.

History
The first prosecutor of the Crimean peninsula was Court Counsellor Dmytro Lesli. His name is mentioned in documents dated 1785. It was the period of Catherine the Great's rule when the government reorganization was held and the regional prosecutors and arbitrators were appointed.

The first prosecutors remained on the position till the end of 1788 and were succeeded by Oleksandr Taranov-Belozerov. Taranov-Belozerov was appointed on 13 December 1788 and remained in the position for 5 years. The next regional prosecutor of Crimea was Mykhailo Tarnavskii. He was appointed on 30 June 1803 when the Tavriya region was established. The prosecutor of Tavriya region performed the supervision over observance of laws in the enforcement of court judgments delivered in criminal cases, as well as in the application of other coercive measures related to the restraint of individual personal liberty. At the Crimean Public Record Office, there are notes about the following prosecutors of Crimea: Fabr, Semen Mayer, Stanislav Borovsky, Oleksandr Glukhov. In April 1869 the position of Tavriya region prosecutor was annihilated according to the Court Reform of 1864. Later the functions of the Tavriya region prosecutor were held to the Prosecutor of Simferopol District Court.



The District Court of Simferopol consisted of two houses and began its work on 22 April 1869 after the issue of the Senate's decree dated 5 July 1868. According to that decree prosecutor of the Simferopol District Court was guided by the Ministry of Justice and the prosecutor of Odessa Court of Justice.

The District Court of Simferopol consisted of the Head, the Deputies and the Members also under the governance of the Court there were the Prosecutor, the Detective and the Notary. According to the Court regulations, the Prosecutor was the accusatorial body of the State and at the same time, the supervision was also executed by the Prosecutor. At the Public Record Office, there are notes about the following prosecutors of the District Court of Simferopol from its establishment till the abolition in 1920. They were: Boris Vitte, Mykola Domchynskii, Novytskii, Felix Zivert, Umanskii. There are also evidences that under the supervision of the Prosecutor Felix Zivert there were nearly eleven prosecution attorneys.

One of the first steps of newly declared the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Crimea was the establishment of the local bodies of Justice. The new Prosecution Supervision Body began its work on September 16, 1922, as a part of State Justice Body and consisted of the Prosecutor, two deputies (responsible for the criminal and the civilian cases) and the department of public prosecution.

From 29 August 2014 till 19 August 2016 the position of the prosecutor of the AR of Crimea was occupied by Vasyl Sinchuk. After this on August 22, 2016 the Prosecutor General of Ukraine appointed Gyunduz Mamedov to this position. In September 2016 the structure of the Prosecution of Crimea had been reformed, the staff increased, and some of its departments have been relocated to Kherson since the Crimean Department of Security Service of Ukraine is located there. These realities force the Prosecution to increase its efforts mostly to renewal of justice and prosecution of those responsible for illegal occupation of the Crimean peninsula and for violation of the rights and freedoms of Ukrainian citizens living there.

The main priorities of the Prosecution's work for now are the investigations of crimes against the National Security and the war crimes.

Structure

 * Prosecutor of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea;
 * First Deputy Prosecutor of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea;
 * Deputy Prosecutor of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea;
 * Department of Personnel;
 * Department of organizational and legal support, statistics and Single record of investigations support;
 * Division for Supervision over Criminal proceedings:
 * Department for Supervision over Compliance with Legislation in criminal proceedings and Anti-Corruption Legislation;
 * Department of Supervision over Compliance with Legislation on Security Service, State Fiscal Service and State Border Guard Service of Ukraine;
 * Department of Supervision over the Procedural Activities of Preliminary Investigation Bodies and Criminal Court Proceedings:
 * Department of investigations;
 * Department of Procedural Supervision over Criminal Proceedings and State Accusation Support;
 * Department of Representation of the State and Individual interests in the Court;
 * Prosecution Attorneys;
 * Division for Documental Support (acting as a Department);
 * Department of Finance and Accounting;
 * Department of organizational and technical support;
 * Senior Specialists of the State Secrets Defence;
 * Senior Specialists of the Informational and Technical Support;
 * Press-secretary (acting as a Senior Specialist).

Prosecutors of the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Crimea

 * M. I. Poretskiy (1921–1922)
 * İsmail Firdevs (1922–1923)
 * Osman Saidovich Diveyev (1923–1924)
 * Ilya Sergiyovych Bazhyn (1926–1927)
 * Grigoriy Pavlovych Plinkonos (1930–1932)
 * Memeth Emir-Saliev (1932–1934)
 * Kostyantyn Mykolaiovych Monatov (1936–1938)
 * Oleksiy Pavlovych Kartushenko (1939–1941)
 * Mykhailo Fedorovych Zolotov (1941)
 * Feodosii Grygorovych Donchenko (1941-1942)
 * Mykola Illich Chekalov (1942 – 1945)

Prosecutors of the Crimean Oblast

 * Mykola Illich Chekalov (1945–1947)
 * Serhiy Ivanovych Neronov (1947–1949)
 * Mykola Mykolaiovych Khlamov (1949–1957)
 * Ilya Ivanovych Konoplev (1957–1964)
 * Mykola Ivanovych Korneyev (1964–1984)
 * Zinovii Tesak (1984–1991)

Prosecutors of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea

 * Zinovii Tesak (1991–1992)
 * Leonid Izosimov (1992–1993)
 * Valentyn Kuptsov (1993–1996)
 * Volodymyr Shuba (1996–2000)
 * Oleksandr Dobrorez (2000–2003)
 * Volodymyr Galtsov (2003–2005)
 * Viktor Shemchuk (2005–2007)
 * Volodymyr Galtsov (2007)
 * Viktor Shemchuk (2007)
 * Oleksii Ugriumov (2007–2008)
 * Volodymyr Boiko (2008–2010)
 * Stepan Molytskii (2010–2011)
 * Vyacheslav Pavlov (2011–2014)
 * Vasyl Synchuk (2014–2016)
 * Gyunduz Mamedov (2016-)