Orest Furdychko

Honoured Agricultural Worker
Orest Furdychko
Honoured Agricultural Worker Orest Furdychko
Орест Фурдичко
	Furdychko in 2012
Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection
	In office; 17 August 2004 – 15 May 2005
President	Leonid Kuchma; Viktor Yushchenko;
Prime Minister	Viktor Yanukovych; Yulia Tymoshenko;
Minister	Serhii Polyakov; Pavlo Ihnatenko;
People's Deputy of Ukraine
	In office; 29 March 1998 – 14 May 2002
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Petro Oliynyk
Constituency	Lviv Oblast, No. 125
Chairman of the Lviv Oblast Council
	In office; April 1997 – April 1998
Preceded by	Mykola Horyn
Succeeded by	Stepan Senchuk
Personal details
Born	10 October 1952; Strilbychi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Political party	Agrarian Party (until 1998)
Other political; affiliations	People's Democratic Party (1998–1999); Labour Ukraine (1999); Party of Regions; Democratic Union (2001); For United Ukraine!;
Alma mater	Lviv Forestry Institute (DEkN)
Criminal status	Convicted 30 July 2021
Criminal charge	Extortion, bribery
Penalty	Eight years' imprisonment

Orest Ivanovych Furdychko (Ukrainian: Орест Іванович Фурдичко; born 10 October 1952) is a Ukrainian forester and politician who served as People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 125th electoral district, located in Lviv Oblast, from 1998 to 2002. Furdychko is also among Ukraine's leading academics on forestry, and previously served as a member of both the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine and the Academy of Forestry of Ukraine. Furdychko was charged with extortion and bribery in 2017 after a sting operation by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine. He was found guilty on 30 July 2021 and sentenced to eight years' imprisonment.