Raisa Bohatyriova

In October 2014 Bohatyriova was put on its wanted list by Ukrainian authorities as a suspect of large-scale embezzlement of state budget funds. According to the Ukrainian government she has since repaid government funds that had allegedly been misappropriated. At the time her whereabouts were unknown. On 27 August 2019 Bohatyriova returned to Ukraine.

The years following the 2014 Ukrainian revolution Bohatyriova's whereabouts were unknown. On 27 August 2019 Bohatyriova returned to Ukraine and was immediately detained by the police. She was released from the pre-trial detention center two days later after Vadym Novynskyi had posted bail for her.

Early March 2014 the European Union froze all funds belonging to Bohatyriova because they also suspected her of illegal use of budget funds. On January 12, 2015 Interpol published an international red notice again Bohatyriova as wanted for corruption and charges of “misappropriation, embezzlement or conversion of property by malversation". According to the Ukrainian government she has since repaid government funds that had been allegedly misappropriated. For this her funds in the EU were unfrozen.

On 24 February 2014, just after the "Maidan revolution", the Verkhovna Rada dismissed Bohatyriova.

On 20 October 2014 Bohatyriova was declared a suspect of the crime of large-scale embezzlement of ₴6 million in budget funds, the next day she was placed on the wanted list and the court ordered the seizure of three apartments in Kyiv, one apartments in Yalta and three houses in (the village) Pidhirtsi (in Obukhiv Raion) owned by her and her husband.

On 14 February 2012 Bohatyriova was removed from the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine and appointed Minister of Health

In November 2007 during the all-national reelections Bohatyriova again became a member of the Verkhovna Rada from the Party of Region. On December 24, 2007 she received an appointment from the President of Ukraine to head the Secretariat of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. On January 28, 2008 the administration of Party of Regions excluded her out the party's list.

According to the Ukrainian magazine Focus, Bohatyriova has placed among the top 10 most influential women in Ukraine since 2005–2010 (five years). She was recognized as the second most influential woman in 2006–2008 after Yulia Tymoshenko.

In July 2000 Bohatyriova was again elected to the parliament now as a member of the Christian Democratic Party of Ukraine. She left her faction once she became a people's deputy and was unaffiliated until March 2001. In March 2001 Bohatyriova joined the Regions of Ukraine group and in November its faction. In April 2002 she was re-elected by the United Ukraine block as the leader of the Party of Regions. Bohatyriova was re-elected once again in April 2006 as the Party of Regions member placing sixth on the party list. From July 2006 until February 2007 she was a member of the Budget Committee.

In 1997–2003, Bohatyriova was the Secretary of the Supervisory Board at the National Fund of Social Protection for Mothers and Children Ukraine to Children.

Bohatyriova was a member of the Communist Party of Soviet Union and a member of the organizational committee in the creation of the Socialist Party of Ukraine. She was elected to the Verkhovna Rada by the members of the Kramatorsk city hospital as a people's deputy, a duty of which she accepted on May 15, 1990. On her website Bohatyriova claims that during her initial experience in the Verkhovna Rada let her to get a real sense of the Ukrainian language. In March 1994 Bohatyriova was not re-elected, yet was appointed as a Deputy of Minister of Health Security. She made a career in this position working her way up to be appointed as a Minister of the portfolio on January 27, 1999. On January 12, 2000 Bohatyriova was deposed as a Minister of Health Security when the Prime Minister of Ukraine was appointed Viktor Yushchenko, however in few months she was appointed as a science adviser to the President of Ukraine.

Bohatyriova married her husband sometime in 1975. Her husband Ihor Oleksandrovych at that time was a student at the Kharkiv Aviation Institute. Bohatyriova sympathizes with Margaret Thatcher and reads Winston Churchill and Anton Chekhov.

In 1971 Bohatyriova enrolled at the Luhansk Medical Institute. In 1977 she graduated from Kharkiv Medical Institute with merits gaining a doctorate qualification. In 1996 graduated from the Kyiv University, specializing in Jurisprudence, qualifications – Lawyer, Medical Doctor, professor. Her candidate dissertation Optimal System of Mass Ultrasound Screening of the Pregnant she defended in the Kharkiv National Medical University in 1996. In 2000 Bohatyriova defended her doctorate dissertation Role of Inborn and Inherited Pathology in Reproductive Losses of a Family in the same university.

In 2008, both Dmitry Itkin (Russian: Дмитрий Иткин; born 23 October 1963) and Viktor Naishuller (Russian: Виктор Найшулер; born 1956 Murmansk), who are very close to Semion Mogilevich, assisted Raisa Bohatyriova with numerous suspicious real estate purchases and alleged money laundering through the La Jolla, California based firm Ideal Real Estate.

Raisa Vasylivna Bohatyriova (Ukrainian: Раїса Василівна Богатирьова; Russian: Раиса Васильевна Богатырёва) (born on January 6, 1953) is a Ukrainian politician and former Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister of Health and former Secretary of National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. In the past, Bohatyriova served as a People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) for the Communist, Christian Democratic Party of Ukraine and more recently the Party of Regions.

Bohatyriova was born on 6 January 1953 in the town of Bakal, Chelyabinsk Oblast, of the Russian SFSR (then the Soviet Union) to family of workers. She was born on the day of the Christmas Eve according to the Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Her father is Vasyl Petrovych Laktionov (1912–1985) and mother – Hanna Markivna Laktionova (born 1918). Bohatyriova has two older sisters Valentyna and Vira. On her website she claims that her family is from village of Protopopivka in Kharkiv Oblast. Bohatyriova also stated that her ancestors are from the Sloboda Ukraine.