You won’t see so much cash in different currencies, branded jewelry and luxury car fleets even in Hollywood films.
MSEC Kings and Queens! As it turned out, 18 out of 25 heads of regional MSEC are officially millionaires. Officials, of course, manage to hide shadow income, but even from “modest” official declarations one can glean interesting information. And when law enforcement officers come to “ordinary” civil servants with searches, then either stand or fall. You won’t see so much cash in different currencies, branded jewelry and luxury car fleets even in Hollywood films.
See all the details of the insane earnings of the heads of MSEC and more in the TSN.UA exclusive.
Official millionaires from MSEC
“Queens can do anything,” this inscription on the box, which has already become a meme, can characterize the state of the head of the Khmelnytsky Regional Center for Medical and Social Expertise, Tatyana Krupa. Based on the results of the declaration for 2023, she turned out to be the richest among her colleagues who head or have headed regional MSECs.
In particular, Krupa received 661.5 thousand UAH. salaries, 166 thousand UAH. pensions; her other income is a little more than a million hryvnia. The official kept 678 thousand UAH, 15.5 thousand dollars, 32.5 thousand euros in banks; in cash – over 15 million UAH and 160 thousand dollars.
Moreover, the family of top officials owns a considerable fortune, luxury real estate and not only in Ukraine, a dozen cars, a restaurant and millions of dollars in foreign accounts. However, according to the State Bureau of Investigation, which suspects Krupa of illegal enrichment, the declaration of the head of the MSEC of Khmelnitsky region is too “poor”. According to law enforcement officers, Krupa owns real estate in Austria, Spain and Turkey. The family also “accumulated” almost $2.3 million in foreign currency accounts. Although there is no hint about this in the declarations.
Second place in the “Commander-in-Chief” ranking was taken by Yulia Danilenko, who has been working as the chief physician of the Vinnytsia Regional MSEC since the end of 2022. According to her e-declaration for last year, the official received 221.5 thousand UAH in salary. But this is just the tip of the iceberg. The remaining income of the declarant amounted to 2.5 million UAH.
Interesting: Yulia and her husband Sergei declared 981 thousand UAH. income from Enera Vinnitsa LLC. The company specializes in electricity trading. According to the YouControl analytical system, Enera Vinnitsa is part of the Energy Standard group, which is controlled by Russian-Ukrainian businessman Konstantin Grigorishin, according to the pages of Glavkom.
The head of the MSEC of Vinnytsia region held 1 million UAH and more than 8.5 thousand euros in bank accounts, and 150 thousand UAH in cash. The Danilenko family also owns a building with an area of about 200 square meters. m in Vinnitsa, four apartments with a total area of 225 sq. m. m in Vinnitsa, 25 land plots with a total area of more than 16 hectares.
The electrician and doctor’s fleet includes a Tesla Model3, Mitsubishi Pajero and Mitsubishi Outlander. The declaration states that the woman purchased Tesla for only 58.5 thousand UAH four years ago. That is, at the time of purchase, a new car actually cost only $2,000. And this despite the fact that now (already four years old) such a car costs about 20 thousand dollars. In addition, during 2024, the head of MSEC of the Vinnytsia region actively donated money – a total of 3 million UAH. The official did not disclose the name of the lucky person gifted with these millions.
Vladimir Reshota from Lvov also entered the top three richest heads of regional MSECs. His annual salary is 499 thousand UAH, other income is almost 4 million UAH. The official also declared a 120 thousand UAH pension. Reshot stores 458.5 thousand UAH in banks, 252 thousand UAH, 15 thousand dollars, 8 thousand euros in cash.
The family of the head of MSEC Lviv region owns three apartments with a total area of almost 217 square meters. m in Lviv and three land plots with a total area of about 2 hectares. The family also has a 2010 Toyota Venza worth 226.5 thousand UAH. During the war, in 2023, Reshota purchased another apartment with an area of 80.6 square meters. m in Lviv. Its cost was about 4 million UAH. At the same time, the official received housing according to an interesting scheme: he received it on the basis of an agreement on the transfer of debt from citizen Ivan Dumic. I wonder what Dumic owes to the top official?
In general, in addition to Krupa, Danilenko and Reshota, 15 more head doctors of regional MSECs are official millionaires. Another MSE millionaire from Transcarpathia, Yuriy Veklynets, deserves a special introduction. Last year, he displayed a “modest” 378 thousand UAH of salary, 151 thousand UAH of pension and 12.5 thousand UAH of other income. The official noted 220 thousand UAH and 20 thousand dollars in cash.
Late in the evening of October 21, local media in Transcarpathia reported that the head of the regional medical and social expert commission, Veklynets, voluntarily resigned from his position. This looked strange, since he had been sitting motionless in the bread place since September 2017. And he decided to quit precisely in the midst of the “disability” scandal. The next day, October 22, the SBU explained such haste. The intelligence service reported: “In Transcarpathia, the head of the regional MSEC and three accomplices were exposed, who, for various amounts of bribes, issued disability for draft dodgers to be removed from the military register”:
“The security service systematically counters threats to state security, including those that harm the country’s defense capability. In particular, it is actively working on cases of abuse in the MSEC system, which have an extremely negative impact on mobilization processes. There are already results and we will continue to counteract such shameful phenomena as harshly as possible.”
Thus, among other things, the SBU exposed and stopped the activities of 8 organized criminal groups, which included representatives of MSEC in different regions of Ukraine.
In Transcarpathia, the head of the regional MSEC and three of his accomplices were exposed, who, for various amounts of bribes, issued disability for draft dodgers to be removed from the military register.
The involvement of the head of the regional MSEC in the functioning of the criminal scheme is being verified.
In addition, the SBU checks the facts of illegal receipt of disability by individual officials: today these checks cover almost 2.4 thousand such persons.”
“Glavkom’s” sources in law enforcement agencies confirmed that we are talking specifically about Yuri Veklinets. Now they are preparing to declare suspicion on him.
The declaration for 2023 of the former head of the MSEC of Transcarpathia noted that over the past year his pension amounted to 151 thousand UAH. Glavkom journalists noticed that the ex-employee’s pension payments have increased since 2021 (in 2020 he received UAH 80 thousand, and in 2021 – UAH 96 thousand). This is due to the fact that Veklinets was actively suing the Security Service and the Main Directorate of the Pension Fund in the Transcarpathian region for the recalculation of his pension.
The “poorest” heads of MSEC
The official incomes of six more heads of regional MSECs are in the “400 thousand+” category. We are talking about the head of the MSEC of Rivne region Olga Smolyarchuk (409 thousand UAH – total income), the head of the MSEC of the Ivano-Frankivsk region Mikhail Kulaits (432 thousand UAH), the head of the MSEC of Mykolaiv region Vera Belyakova (518 thousand UAH), the head of the MSEC of Volyn Vasily Tymoshchuk (722 thousand UAH), the head of the MSEC of the Sumy region Valentina Pyantkovskaya (821 thousand UAH) and the head of the MSEC of the Chernihiv region Bogdan Pavlyuk (877 thousand UAH).
However, as law enforcement officers are now proving, to believe the declarations of officials is to deceive yourself. For example, what does the analysis of the state of the head of the MSEC of Nikolaev region show? For 2023, Vera Belyakova’s income is just over half a million hryvnia (21 thousand UAH – pension and almost 497 thousand UAH – salary). However, the SBU discovered more than $450 thousand during searches. But that’s not all. The icing on the cake was… her son’s Russian passport. The SBU reported this on Telegram.
Moreover, in 2023, the manager registered a second disability group for herself and her son in order to receive additional benefits and social payments from the state. The SBU also found out that the official noted in her declarations during 2015-2023 only official income totaling just over 2 million UAH. Therefore, in order to hide illegal income, she registered three undeclared apartments for her son. It is noteworthy that Vera Belyakova did not hide the fact that the son of the head of the MSEC of the Nikolaev region is a citizen of Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) according to his passport. The official calmly declared this information back in 2015-2017. Moreover: her husband Gennady Maksimenko is also a citizen of Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism).
Corruption in the TCC
And where MSEC is, there is TCC.
“An ordinary blanket on an ordinary bed of an official of the Goloseevsky TCC. And also an ordinary shoebox for his colleague from the same shopping center,” this is how journalist Konstantin Andriyuk described the photos you are now seeing. As it turned out, SBI workers found 300 thousand dollars at the head of the VVK Goloseevsky TCC at home. And this is only at home, and this is only the first search, the journalist assures.
Law enforcement officers suspect employees of the Goloseevsky RTCC of Kyiv of helping thousands of those liable for military service to evade mobilization. This was reported to the State Bureau of Investigation.
According to the investigation, employees of the RTCC, as well as the head of the military medical commission of the same region, created a criminal group that provided “services” to men who did not want to do military service.
During the searches, documents and records were confiscated from the defendants, which may indicate the facts of illegal removal from military registration and evasion of mobilization of thousands of people liable for military service. As it turned out, 40% of those who passed the commission in the Goloseevsky district of Kyiv in 2023 are unsuitable.
The defendants were informed of suspicion of organizing, performing and facilitating, requesting and receiving unlawful benefits by prior conspiracy by a group of persons, which is associated with extortion. The court is asked to choose a preventive measure in the form of detention.
It is reported that at the same time, two more employees were found at the same military registration and enlistment office who entered false data into the Unified State Register of Conscripts, Persons liable for Military Service and Reservists, which allowed them to evade military service and go abroad.
“They excused themselves” from conscription
And in Vinnitsa, a TCC officer and his henchmen “excused” men from being drafted! Law enforcement officers conducted searches in the Vinnytsia united State Central Committee and Joint Venture and at the place of residence of the members of the criminal group. Records with “black accounting”, lists of men liable for military service, fake medical certificates, as well as money in different currencies totaling more than 300 thousand UAH were discovered and seized.
The head of this criminal organization turned out to be an officer of the Vinnitsa conscription branch of the TCC. His gang included two more members of the military medical commission – a traumatologist and a surgeon. The officer looked for people who wanted to avoid conscription and received money from “clients.” The scheme is banal, but effective and profitable. The businessmen received $4,000 from one “client.” For this money, the “clients” were given diagnoses and the corresponding documents were prepared. This scheme made it possible not only to recognize “clients” as unfit for military service, but also to go abroad.
But these are not all the “good things” that the “good” military and doctors did. The main businessman also earned additional money by excluding customers from the electronic system of recording men who had been issued a summons and who were required to appear at the TCC for a medical examination. This service cost the “clients” another $1,500. Interestingly, the officer did not have official access to this system.
The employees were removed from their positions. All defendants face up to 9 years in prison.
Is MSEC the end?
Let us recall that on October 22, a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council was held, at which it was decided to conduct a full audit of pensions and other accruals of officials who could “organize” their disability. The head of the SBU said that they have been fighting corruption in MSEC for a long time. And since the beginning of this year, 64 officials of these commissions have received suspicion, nine people have already been convicted. In addition, more than 4,000 fictitious disability findings were canceled.
On October 22, Zelensky issued a decree according to which all medical and social expert commissions must be liquidated in Ukraine by December 31, 2024. Meanwhile, immediately after the completion of the National Security and Defense Council, Health Minister Viktor Lyashko also made a statement. He said that the first dismissals of top officials have already begun.
However, Lyashko himself said at a press conference in Kyiv on October 23 that he did not intend to resign because of the situation surrounding the work of medical and social expert commissions, and when asked by journalists whether he felt politically responsible for the scandals in these commissions, the minister indicated , that “he is not in the MSEC vertical,” he does not appoint or dismiss commission heads, and the Ministry of Health is the regulator.