| Stepan Ivakhiv | |
| Native Name Lang: | uk |
| Office: | People's Deputy of Ukraine |
| Termstart: | 12 December 2012 |
| Predecessor: | Constituency established |
| Constituency: | Volyn Oblast, No. 21 |
| Birth Date: | 24 January 1968 |
| Birth Place: | , Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
| Party: | For the Future |
| Otherparty: | Independent |
Stepan Petrovych Ivakhiv (uk|Степан Петрович Івахів; born 24 January 1968) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine representing Ukraine's 21st electoral district as a member of For the Future since 2019, having previously represented the district as an independent since 2012. He is co-owner of the Continuum FIG and the WOG gas station network, and is among the 100 richest people in Ukraine.[1]
He was born on 24 January 1968, in the village of Andriyivka, Busk district, Lviv Oblast.
In 1992, he graduated from the Rivne Institute of Water Management.[2]
Founder and co-owner of FIG "Continuum".
As of 2019, Ivakhiv's fortune is estimated at $93 million.[3]
In 2010 he was elected a deputy of the Volyn regional council in a multi-member constituency on the electoral list of the Volyn regional organization of the Party of Regions. Member of the Standing Committee on International Cooperation, Foreign Economic Relations and Investment.[4]
In the 2012 parliamentary election, he ran for the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) as a self-nominated candidate in Ukraine's 21st electoral district (Kovel, Kovel, Ratniv, Starovyzhiv, Shatsk districts) and won, receiving more than 37% of the vote and less than one percent ahead of Ihor Huz.
On 1 November 2018, he was included in the sanctions list of Russia.
On 29 August 2019, he joined the For the Future faction in the Verkhovna Rada.[5]
Since 29 August 2019, Ivakhiv is First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Environmental Policy and Nature Management.[6] Member of the Group for Interparliamentary Relations with the Czech Republic since 19 November 2019.[7] Since 18 December 2019, a member of the group for inter-parliamentary relations with Sweden.[8] Member of the Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with Slovenia since 18 December 2019.[9] He has been a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Relations Group with Canada since 15 October 2019.[10]
According to analysts of the CHESNO Movement, Ivakhiva's company makes money on the "green" tariff.
He was a truant from committee meetings in the Verkhovna Rada of the 8th convocation. He was engaged in non-personal voting. He is a subject of an anti-corruption investigation into political corruption. Voted for dictatorial laws on January 16, 2014.[11]
He was engaged in bribing voters. In particular, the charity fund "Patriots of Volyn" of self-nominated candidate Stepan Ivakhiv presented a blanket and various household appliances to the winners of the nominations during the celebration of the Day of Rostan village in Shatsk district, Volyn region.[12] According to the Civil Network "OPORA", it became known that in September 2014, on the eve of the parliamentary elections, a gift certificate from parliamentary candidate Stepan Ivakhiv for the construction of a stadium near the school was placed in the corridor of secondary school No. 12 in Kovel.[13]