In the history of absolutely any modern state there are individuals whose contribution to the development of the country is almost impossible to evaluate. And sometimes the benefits of their work are not at all. It is worth saying, rather, how much these people, in principle, corresponded to their position. But only an experienced professional can evaluate the work of a civil servant. In this article, we will get acquainted with an extraordinary person named Valery V. Geletey. The biography and incriminating evidence collected on him will be examined in detail.
Facts only
The future general was born on August 28, 1967 in the Transcarpathian region of the Ukrainian SSR, in the village of Verkhny Koropets. His father's name was Viktor Petrovich, and his mother was Larisa Georgievna. At the moment, Geletey Valery is married and has two sons. The brother of a senior officer is the matchmaker of the former head of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine, Viktor Baloga.
Education and emergency service
In the period from 1985 to 1987, Valery Geletey was in the ranks of the Armed Forces of the USSR and was the junior controller of the military unit 2142, located in the Western Border District of the KGB.
In 1990, a former border guard became a policeman after successfully graduating from the Ivano-Frankivsk Specialized Police High School. Four years later, the officer became a graduate of the Ukrainian Academy of Internal Affairs.
Service in the ranks of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
Valery began working in the structure of the Ministry of the Interior in 1988. And two years later he was appointed to the post of operative authorized criminal investigation department of the city of Mukachevo. In 1994 he received a promotion and ended up in Kiev in the Main Directorate of the Organized Crime Control Department of the country. In 1996, he became the head of the Minsk district department dealing with the fight against organized crime in Kiev. Since 1998, he became the first deputy head of the Organized Crime Control Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the city of Kiev.
From 2000 to 2006, he visited several senior positions in the structures of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the country.
Transition to the state guard
From October 2006 to May 2007, he headed the Main Service for Law Enforcement under the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine.
May 25, 2007 Valery Geletey was appointed to the post of head of the Office of State Protection of Ukraine. The appointment of an officer occurred at one of the most critical moments of the political crisis that erupted in the state, because at that moment the dispute between the political forces almost led to a confrontation between the security forces, who, on the one hand, were subordinate to the president and, on the other, the head of the cabinet. The parliamentary majority at that time regarded Geleta’s assertion in office as an attempt by the head of state to put into practice a forceful solution to the conflict in order to suppress all resistance of dissenters.
One of the highlights of the struggle for power was the confrontation between the state guard and the police "Golden Eagle", who fought for the building of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine after the dismissal of the head of this department Svyatoslav Piskun. As a result, the GPU opened criminal proceedings against Valery on a number of articles, but ultimately the court rejected the decision to institute criminal proceedings.
During his tenure as head of state security, Geletey was able to become famous for having repeatedly stated about impending assassinations of such politicians as Lutsenko, Tymoshenko, Zhvania. However, the officer did not provide any evidence, and after some time he completely refused his words, referring to the fact that it was a mistake to make such information publicly available.
In addition, Valery Viktorovich Geletey called for the hand-to-hand fight of the deputy Nestor Shufrich, but their fight did not take place, as the initiator of the battle said that his challenge was comic, and it all ended in a friendly handshake. In 2008, Geletey was promoted to colonel general.
July 14, 2009 Valery was dismissed from his post. From 2011 to 2014, he served as vice president of one of the banks in Ukraine.
In March 2014, he was once again appointed head of the state guard, but, albeit, with the prefix “acting”.
Return to the army
On July 3, 2014, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine voted for Valery Viktorovich Geletey, whose biography has many dark spots, to become the country's defense minister. 260 deputies voted for this appointment.
While on the post of head of the defense department, the general stepped up the process of improving the combat skills of the army and created a special service that deals with the identification of various enemy intelligence networks in the country. The new minister also considered that the Swiss army, characterized by a large number of reservists, would be the best option for the army model for Ukraine.
Scandalous behavior
From the first minutes of his appointment to the ministerial post, the Ukrainian military leader Geletey Valery was “famous” for having affixed his oath with a pen with a closed cap. This fact did not go unnoticed by the ubiquitous media and was immediately disseminated as quickly as possible. In addition, the general publicly promised that the Victory Parade would be held in Sevastopol, which, as you know, has not happened to this day.
In September 2014, deputies from the Batkivshchyna party appealed to the president with a strict demand to dismiss Geletey, as he was responsible for mistakes during the bloody battles near Ilovaisk. The minister was also charged with poor organization of the rear of the army, corruption, public criticism of the battalion commanders. The general responded with a lawsuit in which he demanded that Tymoshenko publicly apologize to the Ukrainian soldiers for his words.
But Geletey’s dismissal nevertheless took place, and it happened on October 12, 2014. Subsequently, it was he who was called the main culprit of the Ilovaysky boiler.
