Vitaly Yarema

Vitaly Yarema
Віталій Ярема
Yarema in 2018
12th General Prosecutor of Ukraine
In office
19 June 2014  10 February 2015
PresidentPetro Poroshenko
Preceded byOleh Makhnitskyi (acting)
Succeeded byViktor Shokin
22nd First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine
In office
27 February 2014  19 June 2014
Prime MinisterArseniy Yatsenyuk
Preceded bySerhiy Arbuzov
Succeeded byStepan Kubiv
Personal details
Born (1963-10-14) 14 October 1963
Strokova, Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine SSR, Soviet Union
Political partyunaffiliated
Alma materAcademy of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
WebsiteOfficial Site

Vitaly Hryhorovych Yarema (Ukrainian: Віталій Григорович Ярема; born 14 October 1963) is a Ukrainian politician, law enforcement expert who was General Prosecutor of Ukraine from 19 June 2014 until 10 February 2015. His previous position was First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine in Yatsenyuk Government since 27 February 2014, where he was responsible for law enforcement and the power block. Yarema was an MP of Batkivshchyna party (unaffiliated), a former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in Kyiv (2005–2010), and a retired lieutenant-general of police.