HACC approves plea deal with Cherkasy regional council MP
The High Anti-Corruption Court approved the plea agreement concluded with Roman Pokholchuk, a deputy of the Cherkasy Regional Council from the "For the Future" party.
To approve the plea agreement in criminal proceedings, concluded on 01/28/2026 in the city of Kyiv between the prosecutor of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office and the accused in these criminal proceedings (Poholchuk - ed.), with the participation of a defense attorney. (Poholchuk - ed.) To find guilty of committing a criminal offense provided for in Part 1 of Article 368-4 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, and to impose on the basis of the plea agreement an agreed measure of punishment under Part 1 of Article 368-4 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine in the form of a fine in the amount of one thousand tax-free minimum incomes of citizens, which is 17,000 hryvnias
Let us remind you that Roman Pokholchuk is a person involved in the EBK database. According to the investigation, in 2023, one of the co-founders of the company in the field of land valuation demanded a deputy of the Cherkasy Regional Council to provide a monetary reward for determining an uninflated valuation of the desired plot. In return, if the improper benefit was not provided, the appraiser threatened to make a significantly overstated valuation.
The deputy did not contact law enforcement agencies, but agreed to the specified requirement and transferred the required amount to the bank account of another co-founder of the company. Subsequently, the co-founder gave one half of these funds to his partner, and disposed of the other half at his own discretion. After receiving the illegal benefit, the company prepared a report on the expert monetary valuation of the land and provided a positive review of it.
We also previously reported that the Security Service of Ukraine, together with the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, exposed the current People's Deputy of Ukraine , who was exposed in August 2023 for taking bribes for resolving land issues, in dealing with the land of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences for 30 million hryvnias.
