By order of the State Customs Service of Ukraine, starting June 13, 2005, Mykhailo Honcharenko was approved for the position of head of the Volyn Customs, who since May 20 of this year had been acting head of customs, - the press service of the State Customs Service of Ukraine reported today.
Mykhailo Honcharenko, adviser of the customs service of the 1st rank, graduated from the Kyiv Pedagogical Institute with a specialty in "Spanish and English" languages and Lviv State University named after Ivan Franko with a specialty in "law". He has been working in customs bodies since 1993. It was then that on the basis of the customs post "Kovel" of the Volyn Customs, the Kovel Customs was created, and he was appointed as its head. Before this appointment, Mykhailo Honcharenko headed the department of foreign economic relations of the "Kovelsilmash" plant. He managed the Kovel Customs for four years until 1997. Later, Mr. Honcharenko held the position of deputy head of the Volyn Customs, and subsequently headed the operational department of the Service for Combating Smuggling and Violations of Customs Rules.