Dmytro Gnap

Dmytro Gnap
Native name Дмитро Володимирович Гнап
Born (1977-12-19) 19 December 1977
Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Citizenship Ukraine
Occupation journalist

Dmytro Volodymyrovych Gnap (Ukrainian: Дмитро Володимирович Гнап, born 19 December 1977) is a Ukrainian journalist at Slidstvo.Info and Hromadske.TV.[1] His work focuses on corruption and crime.[2][3] In 2014, he and other journalists collaborated to preserve documents found at the Mezhyhirya Residence after President Viktor Yanukovych fled Ukraine.[4] Gnap won the main award at the 2015 Mezhyhirya Festival for his investigative work.[3][5]

On April 2016 a libel lawsuit was filed against him by Oleksandr Korniyets, one of the Ukrainian top prosecutors dubbed the "diamond prosecutors", previously suspected of taking bribes in what has been described as a witch hunt against many Hromadske journalists launched by Petro Poroshenko's supporters.[6]

On 25 June 2018 Gnap announced he was leaving journalism to start a political career. He said he would take part in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary elections, and in primaries for a single liberal opposition candidate in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Sinico, Sean (25 June 2014). "'Everything will be exposed,' Ukrainian reporter says". Deutsche Welle.
  2. ↑ Rachkevych, Mark (21 June 2015). "Ukrainian journalist called in for questioning after report on jet-setting judges (VIDEO)". Kyiv Post.
  3. 1 2 "Ukraine's Annual Investigative Prize to Dmitro Gnap". i-scoop.org. 7 June 2015.
  4. ↑ Sullivan, Drew (25 February 2014). "YanukovychLeaks: How Ukraine Journalists Are Making History". Global Investigative Journalism Network.
  5. ↑ Gordiienko, Olena (9 June 2015). "Mezhyhirya Festival celebrates investigative journalism". Kyiv Post.
  6. ↑ Poroshenko’s troll army borrows Kremlin techniques, Unian, 19 April 2016
  7. ↑ Ukraine's investigative journalist Gnap quits job, to run for president, UNIAN (26 June 2018)


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