Leonid Derkach
Leonid Vasylovych Derkach is a Ukrainian politician, and former Head of the Security Service of Ukraine. General of Army of Ukraine.
From 1957 to 1972 Derkach worked at the Soviet Rocket giant Yuzhmash in Dnipropetrovsk. From March of 1972 to December of 1992 he worked for the Ukrainian SSR's branch of the KGB in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
Derkach was fired in 2001 for his alleged involvement in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze.
In 2005, the report of the ad hoc committee of the Ukrainian parliament investigating the murder concluded that Gongadze's murder had been organized by then President Kuchma and his Minister of the Interior and that Derkach had been involved in the crimes.
