The acting director of the Holosiivskyi National Nature Park, Mykhailo Hlushanytsya, who previously came under the attention of law enforcement for drug trafficking, has been demanding a bribe from a serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for permission to conduct business activities on the territory of the park for several years.
Serviceman Andriy Makhnitsky reported pressure and extortion of a bribe of 100 thousand hryvnias. After refusing, Hlushanytsia entered into a conspiracy with the then head of the department for control over the improvement of the Svyatoshynskyi RDA, Dmytro Ogorodnik. In the summer of 2023, the State Bureau of Investigation detained Ogorodnik while receiving the first half of the bribe - 50 thousand hryvnias. He was declared a suspect, and the case was transferred to court, but the verdict has not yet been rendered.
Hlushanytsya receives about 32 thousand hryvnias in salary per month and lives in a modest apartment in the Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv. In 2019, he purchased an old Mercedes from 2002. At the same time, numerous corruption schemes indicate that the official's real fortune is much greater. Deputy Head of the State Security Department Oleksandr Sokolenko purchased a house with an area of 154 sq. m in 2023, but did not indicate the cost of the object.
Even after his arrest, Dmytro Ohorodnik continued to work at the Svyatoshyn Regional State Administration, but he was fired in April 2024. At that time, he had over 3 million UAH in cash and over half a million hryvnias.
Hlushanytsya had been trying to get into big politics for a long time: he was a volunteer assistant to Boryslav Bereza and twice unsuccessfully ran for the Kyiv City Council from different parties. His criminal past and work as a "pawnbroker" did not prevent him from gaining political positions. In 2008, law enforcement officers detained him for illegal drug trafficking and seized amphetamine, but he did not receive any real punishment.
