MP from Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi left under house arrest for another two months

The High Anti-Corruption Court has extended the period of nightly house arrest for Anatoliy Khmilkivsky, a member of the Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky District Council of Odesa Oblast, until October 13.

The HACCU made the decision on August 13 in response to a petition filed by the prosecutor of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, Slovo i Dilo reports.

On August 13, the term of the MP's arrest was about to expire, and this was the reason for the petition.

The MP 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 has been 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.

In general, the MP has been under house arrest since April. In March, the Odesa Regional Prosecutor's Office reported that a deputy 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.