Duties Extended for Zaporizhzhia Regional Council Deputy’s Aide

The High Anti-Corruption Court extended until February 9, 2025 the term of office of Oleksandr Chyzhelikov, assistant to the deputy chairman of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Council Vladyslav Kutsenko, in the case of providing an illegal benefit.

As is known, the anti-corruption court released Chyzhelikov on personal recognizance. He was given the following obligations: to appear upon first demand; to report his departure from Zaporizhia; to report any change in his place of residence and/or place of work; to refrain from communicating with other suspects in the case and to hand over his international passports.

Later, the court canceled Chyzhelikov's obligation to report his departure from Zaporizhzhia. Therefore, the SAPO prosecutor requested that the remaining obligations be extended for another two months.

The request of the prosecutor of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office to extend the term of the duties imposed on the suspect (Chyzhelikov - ed.) in criminal proceedings is granted. The suspect's term of duties stipulated in Part 5 of Article 194 of the Criminal Procedure Code is extended until February 9, 2025 inclusive.

Oleksandr Chyzhelikov is a figure in the EBK database.

As a reminder, NABU and SAPO exposed Deputy Chairman of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Council Vladyslav Kutsenko and two other individuals in an attempt to bribe the director of a healthcare facility.

According to the investigation, during 2023-2024, the suspects repeatedly provided one of the directors of the regional hospital with funds so that he would contribute to the victory of pre-determined companies in tenders announced by the medical institution, as well as to the opening of an account in a certain bank by the medical institution and the placement of funds in it. On February 19, the individuals were caught red-handed immediately after they provided another portion of the illegal benefit. The total amount of the illegal benefit reaches over 650 thousand UAH.

Earlier it became known that the Appeal left the deputy prosecutor of Zaporizhzhia suspended.

We also wrote that the former head of the Kyiv Metro, Braginsky, was put on the wanted list.