Case description
On July 30, 2021, the HACC found Orest Furdychko, former director of the Institute of Agroecology, guilty of receiving USD 300,000 from a private company for continuing cooperation under a contract.
At the time of the crime, Orest Furdychko headed the Institute of Agroecology and Nature Management of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine. At the time of the crime, Orest Furdychko headed the Institute of Agroecology and Nature Management of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine. However, in the course of his life, he managed to serve as a deputy and chair of the Lviv Regional Council in the 1990s, and in the early 2000s, he was a member of parliament. In 2017, the President awarded Furdychko the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, V degree.
Vereshchynskyi, the founder of Satel Ukraine LLC, that he had to pay USD 500,000 for the non-termination of the joint agreement on the part of the Institute. This company was building a residential complex on the Institute's land plot. Furdychko told Vereshchynskyi that new developers had allegedly already been found, so if he refused to pay half a million dollars, he would terminate the contract. On December 30, 2017, Furdychko received part of the bribe, USD 300,000, which was when the NABU detained him.
Furdychko's actions were classified under Article 368, part 4 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The court sentenced him to 8 years in prison, with a 3-year ban from holding certain positions and confiscation of all his property.
Both the appellate and cassation instances did not change this verdict.
