Leonid Derkach
Leonid Derkach | |
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Леонід Деркач | |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| In office 14 May 2002 – 25 May 2006 | |
| Preceded by | Serhiy Tihipko |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Constituency | Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, No. 36 |
| Head of the Security Service of Ukraine | |
| In office 22 April 1998 – 10 February 2001 | |
| President | Leonid Kuchma |
| Preceded by | Volodymyr Radchenko |
| Succeeded by | Volodymyr Radchenko |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 July 1939 Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Dnipro, Ukraine) |
| Died | 14 January 2022 (aged 82) Kyiv, Ukraine |
| Children | Andrii Derkach (son) |
| Military service | |
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| Rank | General of the Army of Ukraine |
Leonid Vasyliovych Derkach (Ukrainian: Леонід Васильович Деркач; 19 July 1939 – 14 January 2022) was a Soviet and Ukrainian politician, intelligence officer, and general who was Head of the Security Service of Ukraine from 22 April 1998 to 10 February 2001. Called the "Ukrainian Sorge" (Russian: "Украинский Зорге"), he headed one of the five groups in the Dnipropetrovsk Mafia. The Derkach family maintains very close relationships with Oleg Deripaska, Mikhail Fridman's Moscow-based Alfa Group and Petr Aven's Alfa-Bank.
Both Leonid and Andrii Derkach were also close to Vadim Rabinovich as well as Semyon Mogilevich, Alexander Angert, Leonid Minin, and Sergei Mikhailov, members of the Russian, Ukrainian, and Israeli mafias.