Cabinet Removes Deputy Energy Minister For European Integration Didenko

The Cabinet of Ministers has dismissed Deputy Minister of Energy and Coal Industry for European integration Ihor Didenko.

Ukrainian News Agency learned this from a Government source.

The Cabinet made this decision at the session on Wednesday.

According to the source, Didenko was dismissed by personal wish.

Didenko has sent in resignation in December 2015. Then Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Volodymyr Demchyshyn accepted it, but the Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk-led Government refused to dismiss him.

July 22, 2016, the Cabinet appointed him as Deputy Minister of Energy and Coal Industry for European integration

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, the Cabinet of Ministers in May 2014 appointed Didenko as Deputy Minister of Energy and Coal Industry responsible for the state policies in the oil and gas sector.

From August 1999 to April 2000, Didenko was First Deputy Chairman of the Management Board at Naftogaz of Ukraine national joint-stock company.

April to June 2000, he was acting Chief Executive Officer at Naftogaz.

In February 2008, Didenko was appointed Naftogaz's First Deputy Chairman of the Board again and worked in the post till March 24, 2010.

In July 2010, he was arrested on charges of Naftogaz of Ukraine NJSC and State Customs Service officials of embezzlement of natural gas belonging to RosUkrEnergo and illegal custom clearance in February and March 2009.

In September 2011, the Pecherskyi District Court of Kyiv sentenced Didenko to three years of suspended deprivation of freedom, and after that he was released from arrest.