People’s Deputy Odarchenko fled abroad

A representative of the people suspected of corruption has fled to another country. NABU reported this on Wednesday, September 18.

“According to preliminary operational data from NABU detectives, the current representative of the people of Ukraine, accused of giving undue benefits to high-ranking officials in the field of restoration, violated procedural duties assigned to him and illegally crossed the state border,” the report said.

The prosecutor filed a petition to recover the bail that the accused paid in the amount of 15 million hryvnias to the state and to put him on the wanted list.

In turn, SAPO reported that the representative of the people, who was accused of giving undue benefits to the head of the State Agency for Reconstruction and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine, did not appear today at the High Anti-Corruption Court.

The departments did not name the representative of the people, but the circumstances of the case point to Andrei Odarchenko.

Let’s recall that in November 2023, law enforcement officials reported suspicion of a representative trying to bribe the then head of the State Agency for Reconstruction and Infrastructure Development, Mustafa Nayem, with cryptocurrency.

The defendant became deputy Andrei Odarchenko from Servants of the people. The court arrested him with the alternative of posting 15 million hryvnia bail. Bail was posted for the town deputy, as a result of which he was released from the pre-trial detention center.

And at the end of June of this year, the High Anti-Corruption Court began considering the merits of the Odarchenko case.