OREANDA-NEWS. The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree on appointment Iryna Venedyktova, who was previously the acting director of the National Bureau of Investigation, to the post of Prosecutor General.

The day before, the Verkhovna Rada supported the president’s proposal to appoint Venedyktova. Presenting her candidacy, Zelensky assured that the new Prosecutor General would go down in the history of Ukraine “primarily as a professional and productive person.”

A native of the city of Kharkov, Venedyktova was an adviser in law firms, a lecturer of civil law, a judge of the Arbitration Court for Medical Cases. In 2018, she became Zelensky’s legal adviser, and then entered his headquarters for presidential campaign. Venedyktova previously criticized the leadership of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine for “blocking the investigation of a number of criminal cases.”