Yuriy Volodymyrovych Ivanyushchenko (Ukrainian: Юрій Володимирович Іванющенко; born on 21 February 1959), is a Ukrainian politician, economist, and businessman, who is a former member of parliament, a People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, of the VI and VII convocations, as a member of the Party of Regions, since November 2007.

[9] On 25 March 2013, according to the Express newspaper, he was "leading" in the list of absentee deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 7th convocation, being present at only one of the seven sittings of the parliament.

The Minsister of Internal Affairs, Arsen Avakov said Ivanyushchenko organized and funded "titushky" who abducted, beat and killed Euromaidan activists in February 2014.

[17] At the end of January 2015, Ivanyushchenko was put on the wanted list by the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

[18] The Prosecutor General's Office suspects him of organizing the embezzlement of someone else's property and illegal enrichment on an especially large scale under the following articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:[19] On 2 December 2016, the Kyiv Court of Appeals ruled that MP from the BPP Serhiy Leshchenko should refute his statements about the former deputy from the Party of Regions, Ivanyushchenko, whom he accused of involvement in the murders of Euromaidan activists.

[citation needed] However, in 2017, the Kyiv Court of Appeals considered the complaint of the Ivanyushchenko's lawyers, and found the statements of the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Serhiy Leshchenko, voiced in the live broadcast of the Shuster Live program as unreliable, obliging him to refute the slanderous insinuations about Ivanyushchenko's involvement in the delivery of titushki to the time of Euromaidan, as well as theft in the state corporation "Ukrspirt".

On 30 November 2016, the Kyiv Court of Appeals ruled to satisfy Ivanyushchenko's claim against Leshchenko for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation.

Claims of Ivanyushchenko to the editor-in-chief of the portal "Censor.net" to Yuri Butusov on the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation were satisfied by the court on 18 January 2017.

[citation needed] On 26 January 2017, the court ruled to uphold the decision of the Solomyansky District Court of 27 January 2016, which made a positive decision on the case of the inaction of the Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Stolyarchuk at the stage of pre-trial investigation.

The court also ruled to refuse the Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine to start office work in relation to Ivanyushchenko.

[23] According to MP Leshchenko, Hryhoriy Surkis, his longtime business partner, and Borys Lozhkin, the former head of the Administration of the President of Ukraine, they agreed that they played a significant role in ending the persecution of the oligarch.

Ivanyushchenko promised about a third of his fortune to high-ranking people from the circle of the President of Ukraine for resolving the issue of ending his criminal prosecution.

[5] His son, Arsen (born 16 November 1991), played in the second squad of the Dynamo Kyiv,[36] a co-owner of Euro Finance, and an ex-shareholder of Zakhidinkombank [uk].