Evghenia Guțul
Evghenia Guțul | |
|---|---|
Evgeniya Guţul or Guțul (Gagauz) | |
Guțul in 2024 | |
| Governor of Gagauzia | |
| In office 19 July 2023 – 5 August 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Irina Vlah |
| Succeeded by | Ilia Uzun (acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 5 September 1986 |
| Party | Victory (since 2024) |
| Other political affiliations | Șor Party (2018–2023) Independent (before 2018, 2023–2024) |
Evghenia Guțul (born 5 September 1986; Gagauz: Evgeniya Guţul or Guțul), also rendered Yevgenia Gutsul (Russian: Евгения Гуцул) and Eugenia Guțul, is a Moldovan Gagauz jurist and politician, who served as Governor of Gagauzia (başkan) from July 2023 to August 2025.
As governor, she has sought to have closer relations with Russia. Following her party's banning by Moldovan authorities, she has been an independent. She has been sanctioned by the EU Council for promoting separatism, and by the United States' Office of Foreign Assets Control.
In April 2024, she was indicted in a criminal case with the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office of Moldova, and in August 2025 she was sentenced to seven years in jail for using undeclared Russian funds to finance her Șor Party.