The Kherson City Court approved a plea agreement between the prosecutor and Vadym Hlushko, the former advisor to Kherson OVA head Oleksandr Prokudin, who was suspected of using forged medical documents to evade conscription during mobilization.
The court’s verdict has been published in the EDRSR registry.
According to the case materials, Hlushko contacted the director of the Luchanskyi Hospital, Andriy Fedotov, asking to provide him with treatment. After that, the head of the neurology department conducted an initial examination and entered false information into Hlushko’s medical record about hospitalization and inpatient treatment, although in fact after the examination he left the hospital.
Subsequently the doctor continued to enter false data into the medical record, supposedly that Hlushko was undergoing inpatient treatment, after which she prepared an epicrisis, which Vadym Hlushko provided to the military medical commission to obtain a certificate of temporary unfitness and, accordingly, a deferment from conscription.
For this, Hlushko was suspected under Part 4 of Article 358 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine — use of a knowingly forged document — and Article 336 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine — evasion of conscription for military service during mobilization.
Under these articles he could have faced up to 5 years of imprisonment, however on September 16 he entered into a plea agreement with the prosecutor.
As stated in the verdict, Hlushko admitted his guilt and undertook to transfer UAH 250,000 to the “Army of Drones” project to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In the end, the court approved the plea agreement and sentenced him to a fine of UAH 51,000.
It should be noted that Vadym Hlushko appeared in Kherson in 2023. At that time he was Oleksandr Prokudin’s advisor on general matters on a voluntary basis.
At some point Prokudin got rid of Hlushko, who according to our sources in the OVA, by the end of 2023 was already causing discomfort to the entire team. But Vadym Hlushko did not abandon Kherson, instead he joined the team of former head of the Kherson MVA Roman Mrochko.
However, some ties between Hlushko and Prokudin remained, because the latter continued to allow his former toxic advisor to go abroad. Hlushko went there under the cover of volunteering to celebrate birthdays.
After Hlushko joined Roman Mrochko’s circle, he was almost daily present in the Kherson MVA premises. There he held conversations with Mrochko’s deputies and heads of departments. Almost all the issues that Hlushko oversaw in the MVA were related to shady money and schemes involving contracts.
So, obviously, the fine imposed by the court and the charitable contribution to the Armed Forces of Ukraine will not significantly dent Vadym Hlushko’s finances.