Mykola Dzhyha | |
Native Name Lang: | uk |
Office: | Governor of Vinnytsia Oblast |
Term Start: | 2010 |
Term End: | 2012 |
Predecessor: | Volodymyr Demishkan |
Successor: | Ivan Movchan |
Birth Name: | Mykola Vasylyovych Dzhyha |
Birth Date: | 15 May 1949 |
Birth Place: | Yarove, Sharhorod Raion, Ukrainian SSR |
Party: | Party of Regions |
Alma Mater: | Academy of the USSR Kyiv University |
Mykola Vasylyovych Dzhyha (; born 15 May 1949, Yarove, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian career militsiya officer and later politician, member of the Verkhovna Rada. He is a Colonel General of Militsiya.
In 1966-1971 Dzhyha started with small low pay jobs in Fastiv. After finishing the Saratov specialized school of Militsiya, in 1973-2002 he made a career as a militsiya officer starting out as an investigator and finishing as a chief of the Central Administration for Combating Organized Crime (HUBOZ).
Between 2002 and 2004 Dzhyha headed the Interpol National Bureau in Ukraine and the Tax Militsiya Investigation Administration. Dzhyha was a closer colleague of the Minister of Internal Affairs Yuriy Kravchenko and conducted investigation relating to Georgiy Gongadze issue. Dzhyha also does not believe the official version that Kravchenko committed suicide.[1] During one of the Dzhyha's investigation, the documents that were showing a rent of land lot where Mezhyhiria is located were removed from the Vyshhorod district administration (Mezhyhirya Residence is located in Vyshhorod Raion).[2]
With small break in 2006-2014 he was a member of Verkhovna Rada representing Party of Regions. In 2010-2012 he served as a Governor of Vinnytsia Oblast.