[citation needed] As a member of the Liberal Party of Ukraine (LPU), Shcherban was elected once again from the Donetsk region electoral district N41 in 1998, joining the parliamentary group the Independents.

After the Orange Revolution in the beginning of 2005, Volodymyr Shcherban fled from Ukraine to the United States and ended up in Orlando and later Boca Raton, both in Florida.

[1] Shcherban, however, was detained in October 2005 on expired visa charges and placed in an immigration prison near Miami, but was released on $2 million bail.

[2] While in Florida, Shcherban was caught up in controversy by attending a $500-a-plate fundraiser for gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist hosted by Donald Trump, which constituted an illegal campaign contribution.

[5] In November 2006, representatives of the General Prosecutor Office of Ukraine detained Shcherban at Boryspil International Airport, but after a few days he was allowed to go home.

In an interview with journalist Yevhen Yevhenovych Shcherban (junior) of Mirror Weekly on September 22, 1997, soon after surviving another murder attempt, he stated that neither the former (Volodymyr Shcherban) or current governors (Viktor Yanukovych) of Donetsk Oblast, nor the mayor of Donetsk (Volodymyr Rybak) helped him and his brother after the murder of their father.

[8] He also sold just over half of the controlling stock in another bread factory in Konotop to Party of Regions politician Vitaliy Khomutynnik in 2008.