MP Ivanisov Lied About Having Two Higher Educations

He did not study at the universities he listed in his biographies.

Two Ukrainian universities that People's Deputy Roman Ivanisov claimed in his biographies he graduated from deny that such a student ever studied there.

This is what the investigative journalism agency found out Chetverta Vlada.

Before running for People's Deputy, Ivanisov served as a deputy of the Rivne Regional Council from 2010 to 2015. Ivanisov's biography on the regional council's website says that in 1995 he enrolled at Zaporizhzhia State University in the Faculty of Management, Department of Jurisprudence, and in 2000 graduated with honors, receiving the qualification "Lawyer – Specialist".

Meanwhile, in the autobiography that Ivanisov submitted to Servant of the People before the elections to the Verkhovna Rada, it is stated that he graduated from the Berdyansk University of Management and Business, Faculty of Management, Department of Jurisprudence, also receiving the qualification "Lawyer – Specialist" and a diploma with honors. This same information is published on the party's official website and on the deputy's website in his constituency.

Journalists sent inquiries to both universities to find out what education the MP received. However, both the first and second institutions replied that Roman Ivanisov did not study with them and did not receive diplomas.

The MP's assistant did not respond to journalists' request for a copy or details of Ivanisov's higher education diploma.

At the same time, as the agency notes, submitting unreliable information about one's education by a People's Deputy is not a violation, since the law does not regulate this issue in any way.

In November, it became known that People's Deputy Roman Ivanisov from Servant of the People had been sentenced in 1996 to 2 years and 6 months of imprisonment for participating in group satisfaction of sexual desire in an unnatural way and attempted rape. However, President Leonid Kuchma pardoned him that same year, and the sentence was changed to a suspended sentence with a probation period of 2 years.

After this information was made public, Ivanisov himself called it a fake and stated that, "so as not to jeopardize the reputation of the entire team," he is suspending his membership in the Servant of the People faction.

Later, Deputy Head of the faction Oleksandr Kornienko said that Ivanisov will no longer be returned to the faction.