Hunko Anatoliy Mykolayovych

Lawyer of "Mykhailivskyi", raider and head of the "anti-corruption" commission — simultaneously

Anatoliy Hunko is a lawyer and a People's Deputy of the IX convocation from "Servant of the People" party (District 208, Chernihiv region). He came to parliament with the reputation of a trusted associate of Viktor Polishchuk — the owner of the bankrupt "Mykhailivskyi" bank and the "Eldorado" retail chain. It was on the order of the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs within the Polishchuk-Hunko scheme that searches were conducted on developers in Brovary under criminal proceeding No. 12019110000000994 — with procedural violations and an investigator who was not part of the investigative group. Opponents pointed to Polishchuk's connections with Dmytro Medvedev. In 2018, Hunko was accused of organizing a criminal group that appropriated 115 hectares of land from the state enterprise "Radio Transmission Center" in Brovary, valued at UAH 120 million. In 2019, the case was closed "due to lack of evidence" — after which Hunko recovered UAH 2 million from the state as "moral damages."

$85k bribe, 7 years in prison, and a new suspicion related to sunflower seeds

In 2023, as head of the temporary investigatory commission of the Verkhovna Rada on corruption issues in NAAS (National Academy of Agrarian Sciences), Hunko incited a private enterprise to give a bribe for 1,700 hectares of state land. On August 8, 2023, NABU and SBU detained him and two accomplices receiving $85,000. On March 25, 2025, the High Anti-Corruption Court found Hunko guilty of bribery inducement and fraud, sentencing him to 7 years imprisonment with confiscation of all property. The appeal reduced the sentence to 4 years. Even before the verdict became effective, Hunko received a new suspicion — of embezzling 2,500 tons of sunflower seeds and corn from NAAS state enterprises through a network of affiliated companies.