Court resumes consideration of case of former deputy mayor Bryndak

The High Anti-Corruption Court has resumed hearing the indictment against former Deputy Mayor of Odesa Oleh Bryndak in the criminal organization case.

According to the Center for Public Investigations, the judges made the decision on March 13.

The proceedings were suspended in August 2025 due to his mobilization, but now the prosecutor has requested that the case be resumed because the former deputy mayor has returned to the city.

"To resume the criminal proceedings on charges of committing criminal offenses," the decision reads.

The court separated the materials on Oleh Bryndak into a separate proceeding. Oleh Bryndak voluntarily mobilized in 2023. In April 2025, Oleh Bryndak was expelled from the Standing Committee on Spatial Development, Land Management and Regulation of Land Relations.

In December 2024, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office brought to court the case of a criminal organization that caused the Odesa community to lose UAH 689 million. The 11 defendants include the current mayor of Odesa, city council officials, the head of an enterprise and other participants.

According to the investigation, the criminal organization developed a plan to illegally seize budget funds and land plots of the community. As a result of its actions, from 2016 to 2019, the territorial community lost at least six land plots with a total area of 15.9 hectares and UAH 131 million, which Odesa City Hall officials illegally overpaid when buying non-residential real estate on the site, which was allegedly planned to be used to expand the cemetery.

As for Oleh Bryndak, investigators claimed that in 2015-2016 he received an undue benefit in the form of a discount of UAH 2 million 769 thousand 248 for an apartment with a total area of more than 152 square meters located in the Greenwood residential complex.

Кирило Бойко