HACC takes up case of Odesa district council deputy

The case of Anatoliy Khmilkivskyi, a deputy of the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi District Council of Odesa Oblast , will be considered by the High Anti-Corruption Court. The case is about incitement to bribery.

This decision was made by the HACC, according to Slovo i Dilo.

It is noted that the court will consider an indictment concerning criminal offenses under Articles 27, part 4, 15, part 2 - 369, part 3, and 15, part 2 - 190, part 5 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The next hearing will be held on September 20 at 14:30.

The court also extended the term of Khmilkivsky's nightly house arrest until October 13, ordering him to appear on demand, not to leave Odesa region without permission, to report changes of address and work, to avoid contact with witnesses and to surrender his passports.

The fact is that on August 13, the term of the MP's arrest was about to expire , and this was the reason for the motion.

The deputy is accused of inciting a businessman to bribery and will now remain under house arrest until October 13. Accordingly, the term of procedural obligations imposed on him was extended: to arrive at every request; not to leave Odesa region without permission; to report changes in his place of residence and place of work; to refrain from communicating with witnesses in this criminal proceeding and to deposit his passports.

(Photo: Odesa Regional Prosecutor's Office)

In general, the MP has been under house arrest since April. In March, the Odesa Regional Prosecutor's Office reported that a member of the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi District Council had been detained for bribery. According to law enforcement, he offered to help an entrepreneur get land near the village of Molodizhne for a bribe.

Of course, the prosecutor's office did not name the deputy at the time, but the editors of Anti-Corruption Dimension found out that the deputy in question was Anatoliy Khmilkivsky of the For the Future political party.

In the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi District Council, he headed the Standing Committee on Land Relations and Administrative and Territorial Organization. In addition, he worked as the director of the municipal enterprise "Housing and Communal Services of the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi District Council". He was removed from this position by an investigating judge of the Kyiv District Court of Odesa. However, he was later reinstated by the Odesa Court of Appeal.

The deputy himself claimed that he did not take bribes, and that he earned the money he was detained for handing over by providing business advice.