Andriy Kostin

Andriy Kostin
Andriy Kostin
Андрій Костін
	Kostin in 2023
Prosecutor General of Ukraine
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 27 July 2022
President	Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Preceded by	Oleksiy Symonenko (acting)
Personal details
Born	17 April 1973 (age 51); Odesa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, (now Ukraine)
Political party	Servant of the People (2019-2022)
Other political; affiliations	Independent
Alma mater	Odesa University
Awards	Honored Lawyer of Ukraine

Andriy Yevhenovych Kostin (Ukrainian: Андрій Євгенович Костін; born 17 April 1973) is a Ukrainian lawyer^[1] and politician. As of 2022^[update], he is a People's Deputy of Ukraine since he was elected to it 2019.^[2]^[3] Kostin was a candidate in the 2021 competition to become the new head of the Ukrainian Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO). Civil society organisations Transparency International Ukraine, Automaidan, Anti-Corruption Action Center and Dejure stated that Kostin did not satisfy the integrity criteria of the competition. Kostin was not selected.^[4]^[5]^[2] Kostin was the Head of the Verkhovna Rada Legal Policy Committee for two years, from 2020 to 2022.^[6] On 27 July 2022, Kostin was voted by the Verkhovna Rada (parliament of Ukraine) as the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.^[6]

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