Position: lawyer.
Sphere of corruption: judicial.
Region of corruption activity: Khmelnytskyi.
Qualification: the actions are qualified under Part 3 of Article 369 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (providing an unlawful benefit to an official).
Status: at large.
The plot of the case: in January 2025, law enforcement officers exposed a 41-year-old lawyer from Khmelnytskyi region for taking a bribe. The suspect tried to influence the prosecutor's decision regarding his client in exchange for a reward.
According to the investigation, the lawyer offered the prosecutor of the Khmelnytskyi Specialized Prosecutor's Office for Defense of the Western Region a $5,000 bribe for concluding a plea agreement for his client, which provided for a non-custodial sentence.
The prosecutor immediately informed the management about this offer and continued to work with other law enforcement officers to document the crime. While transferring part of the promised amount of $1,500, the lawyer was detained.
The detainee was charged with attempting to provide an unlawful benefit to an official (Part 3 of Article 369 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). The sanction of the article provides for four to eight years of imprisonment with or without confiscation of property. The lawyer is currently in custody with the right to post bail.
It later became known that the suspect is Ternopil lawyer Volodymyr Glowak.
In October 2025, the Khmelnytskyi City District Court sentenced Ternopil lawyer Volodymyr Glowak, who offered a bribe to a prosecutor to conclude a deal in his client's favor. The court sentenced him to a UAH 2 million fine and two years of probation.
A criminal case was opened against him under Part 3 of Article 369 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (providing an unlawful benefit to an official). The accused entered into a plea agreement with the prosecutor.
This case was considered by Judge Yuriy Demyanov, who examined all the materials and approved the said agreement. Volodymyr Glowak was found guilty of a criminal offense, imposing a fine of 2 million UAH, as well as five years of imprisonment. The judge released the accused from imprisonment, replacing it with a two-year probationary period. The sentence can still be appealed.
Persons potentially involved in corruption schemes: no information is available from open sources about possible accomplices.
Assets: There are no declarations of Glowak's income in open sources.
Persons who should have reacted: law enforcement agencies responded to the criminal activity in a timely manner, handing Glowak a suspicion.
Scandals: in September 2025, it became known that law enforcement officers suspect a lawyer from Ternopil of fraudulent transactions worth more than 6 million UAH. The man, together with an accomplice, took possession of real estate, money from his clients and acquaintances. The lawyer fraudulently appropriated an apartment from a serviceman. According to ZAXID.NET, this is a lawyer from the well-known Ternopil law firm "Glovak and Partners". The suspect faces up to eight years in prison.
According to the investigation, in 2017, a local businessman turned to the head of the bar association for legal support in purchasing a premises with a total area of 453.5 m2, which is located in Ternopil, the Ternopil region police reported. The lawyer promised to buy the property for UAH 4.4 million through the Prozorro.Sales system, but did not fulfill his promise and embezzled the businessman's money.
The next episode of fraud occurred in 2022, the Ternopil region prosecutor's office reported on Friday, September 5. The lawyer pulled off the scam together with an accomplice. He assured a military friend that he would be able to buy a cottage for him, but in return offered to transfer the apartment that was in his ownership to his accomplice as payment. The man returned from the combat zone and realized that his family would never get the dream house, because he lost the right to ownership of the apartment. The amount of losses is over 1.3 million UAH.
The third episode occurred in October 2022. Instead of documents on the pledge of the car, the lawyer gave a friend from Ternopil to sign documents on the alienation of the car in favor of his accomplice. The woman, trusting the lawyer and without rereading the documents he provided, signed them. She learned about the fraud only after she lost ownership of the car. The amount of losses amounted to almost 350 thousand UAH.
Law enforcement officers detained the lawyer and his accomplice, and they were also charged under parts 3 and 4 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (fraud). The lawyer was given a preventive measure - detention with the possibility of paying a bail of over 1 million 816 thousand UAH, and his accomplice was given a detention with a bail of over 760 thousand UAH.
Sources:
https://zaxid.net/hmelnitskogo_advokata_zatrimali_na_habari_u_1500_dolariv_dlya_prokurora_n1602778