Today, October 10, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine voted to expel from the parliamentary committees two people’s deputies – Artem Dmytrouk and Andrii Odarchenko, who fled abroad. This decision was supported by 245 deputies. About this reported people’s deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak in his Telegram channel.
According to the voting results, Odarchenko was excluded from the anti-corruption committee, and Dmytrouk from the law enforcement committee.
Artem Dmytruk
Dmytruk found himself in the spotlight after it became known on August 25 that he had fled to Moldova, which was confirmed by the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI). The deputy is also involved in the case of an attack on a law enforcement officer and a military officer, for which he was suspected. Prosecutor General Andriy Kosti assured that Ukraine uses all possible international legal instruments to return Dmytrouk to his homeland, and Verkhovna Rada Chairman Ruslan Stefanchuk suggested the possibility of depriving the deputy of his mandate.
Dmytrouk was declared an international wanted man, and he himself recently announced that he is in London, where a trial is taking place regarding his extradition to Ukraine. It is worth noting that Dmytruk even participated online in the meeting of the committee on law enforcement, where representatives of the National Police were also present.
Andriy Odarchenko
Odarchenko became involved in an anti-corruption scandal in November 2023, when NABU and SAP accused him of trying to pay a bribe of $50,000 in cryptocurrency to the former head of the Reconstruction Agency, Mustafa Nayem. The next day, the court chose a preventive measure for Odarchenko in the form of detention with the possibility of making a bail in the amount of 15 million hryvnias. Odarchenko quickly paid bail and was released.
In September 2024, it became known that he fled to Romania. The High Anti-Corruption Court decided to arrest him in absentia and put him on an international wanted list.
