Biography
Dmitry Boychenko graduated in 2011 from the Military Law Faculty of the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law Academy of Ukraine (Kharkiv). In 2013 he received a second higher degree from the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management in Severodonetsk, Luhansk Region.
He has extensive experience in criminal law and procedure. He began his career in the prosecution service of Ukraine, serving from 2011 to 2014 in various prosecutorial and investigative positions at the Military Prosecutor's Office of the Odesa and Kryvyi Rih garrisons and at the prosecutor's office of the Kuibyshevsky District of Donetsk.
He then continued in the prosecution service of the Donetsk People's Republic as deputy head of the investigation department of the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office; in 2016 he was transferred to the post of deputy prosecutor of the Starobeshevsky District and later appointed prosecutor of that district.
As head of the district prosecutor's office he oversaw the supervisory work of its staff, supervised compliance with criminal procedure law in operational, inquiry and pre-trial investigation activities of the Starobeshevsky district police, and supported the state prosecution at first instance.
He was subsequently transferred to the post of investigator for especially important cases at the Investigation Directorate of the Prosecutor General's Office, gaining extensive experience in investigating criminal cases of various categories, including high-profile ones.
Languages: Ukrainian, English.