Ukrainsk expolitiker skjuten till döds i Madrid

Andriy Volodymyrovych Portnov (Ukrainian: Андрій Володимирович Портнов; 27 October 1973 – 21 May 2025) was a Ukrainian lawyer and politician. From 2005 to 2010, Portnov headed the legal department of Yulia Tymoshenko's election headquarters. From 2 April 2010 to the end of February 2014, he was the Head of the Main Department for Judiciary of the Presidential Administration of Viktor Yanukovych and Deputy (then promoted to first deputy on 24 January 24) Head of the Administration of the President of Ukraine. He was also a member of the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014. During the Euromaidan, Portnov was involved in the adoption of "Dictatorship laws." Immediately after the Euromaidan, on 20 February 2014, he left Ukraine. Between 2014 and 2015, he was under the sanctions of the European Union. He lived in Russia, then moved to Vienna, and practiced law there. On 19 May 2019, he returned to Ukraine. On 15 January 2020, the Pechersk Court of Kyiv ruled that, for the purposes of elections Portnov was a resident of Ukraine for the last five years. A number of criminal cases have been filed against Portnov, many of which he has won in court. In 2018, Ukrainian investigators began investigating Portnov's involvement in the annexation of Crimea, and the Security Service of Ukraine opened a case under the article "Treason", which was later closed. Portnov was shot dead outside the American School of Madrid in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain, on 21 May 2025.