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Melnychenko Mykola
1984-1986 - serves in the Army
1987-1992 – studied at the Kyiv higher engineering and radio technology school of anti-aircraft defense.
1992-2000 – works at the National Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and state
Melnychenko says that starting from 1994 he worked at Kuchma’s Presidential administration the president of Ukraine. According to other sources he was attached to the security of the president of Ukraine in 1996.
November 28, 2000 – leader of the Ukrainian socialist party Olexandr Moroz went public with Mykola Melnychenko’s accusations against President Leonid Kuchma. Melnychenko claimed he recorded at the presidential cabinet conversations linking Kuchma with the disappearance of Georgiy Gongadze. Kuchma denied all the accusations.
Making tapes public marked the beginning of so-called tape scandal also known as Kuchmagate.
In November 2000 Melnychenko with his family fled Ukraine to Moravia in the Czech Republic in November.
In 2001 moved to the States where he received political asylum.
2002 – at the parliamentary elections campaign he was number 15 in the election list of the Socialist party of Ukraine. But the Central Election Committee refused to register him.
November 2005 – arrived to Ukraine to give evidence at the Prosecutor General's Office investigators on Gongadze case.
December 2005 – made another (unsuccessful) attempt to register as a parliamentary candidate.
September 2006 – spoke at the Verkhovna Rada on hearings about the Gongadze murder investigation
June 2007 – achieved the implementation of the investigatory experiment concerning Gongadze case.
Melnychenko also cooperated with temporary Verkhovna commission founded to investigate alleged facts from the tapes. According to some sources he sold the part of his audio-archive to Boris Berezovsky in 2000.
Married. Has a daughter.