| Vladyslav Kaskiv | |
| Native Name Lang: | uk |
| Office: | Member of the Zakarpattia Oblast Council |
| Term Start: | 10 November 2020 |
| Constituency: | OPZZh, No. 6 |
| Office1: | People's Deputy of Ukraine |
| Term Start1: | 23 November 2007 |
| Term End1: | 23 February 2012 |
| Constituency1: | NUNS, No. 31 |
| Birth Date: | 1 December 1973 |
| Birth Place: | Melnytsia-Podilska, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
| Party: | Opposition Platform — For Life (2020–present) |
| Otherparty: | |
Vladyslav Volodymyrovych Kaskiv (Ukrainian: Владислав Володимирович Каськів; born 1 December 1973) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician currently serving as a member of the Zakarpattia Oblast Council from the proportional list of Opposition Platform — For Life since 2020. He previously served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from the proportional list of Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc from 2007 to 2012, and helped to organise the 2004 Orange Revolution.
Kaskiv was born on 1 December 1973 in the city of Melnytsia-Podilska, in Ukraine's western Ternopil Oblast.[1]
Since 1994 he has been known for his social and political activity in Ukraine. He has acted as an advisor to the Minister of Economy, advisor to the President, World Bank contact group member in 2001 and was a coordinator of PORA's civic campaign, which played the key role in organizing the Orange Revolution.[2] [1]
In the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election Kaskiv failed to win a seat in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) in an alliance with his PORA and the Reforms and Order Party.[3]
In the 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election Kaskiv was elected as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from the proportional list of the Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc During his tenure, he was an adviser to Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on foreign investment.[2] He resigned on 23 February 2012 after becoming head of the,[4] on appointment by President Viktor Yanukovych.[1]
Kaskiv fled Ukraine following the 2014 Revolution of Dignity,[5] and served as head of Ozario, an Austrian investment company.[6]
In the 2020 Ukrainian local elections Kaskiv was elected member of the Zakarpattia Oblast Council for Opposition Platform — For Life (he was number six on its election list).[7]
Kaskiv was involved in an embezzlement scandal, centred around his time as director of the Ukraine State Investment Agency between 2010 and 2014.[2] In March 2016, Kaskiv was declared wanted.[7] He was suspected of having embezzled ₴7.5. million ($279,000) from the state budget, working alongside others.[5] He was arrested in Panama and extradited in order to stand trial in 2017,[8] though Kaskiv claimed to have traveled voluntarily.[5]