In 2024, the Security Service of Ukraine, in cooperation with other law enforcement agencies, exposed large-scale corruption schemes in medical and social expert commissions, as a result of which 4,106 fictitious conclusions about disability were canceled.
Source: Head of the SBU Vasily Malyuk following the meeting of the National Security and Defense Council
Details: Malyuk said that the SBU is systematically working to eradicate corruption in the MSEC system, which negatively affects the country’s defense capability and mobilization processes.
Direct speech: “The security service systematically counters threats to state security, in particular those that harm the country’s defense capability. There are already results and we will continue to counteract such shameful phenomena as harshly as possible in the future.”
Details: Malyuk noted that in 2024, 64 MSEC officials were suspected of committing crimes, and another 9 people have already been convicted. In addition, 4,106 findings of disability that were issued on the basis of false documents were canceled.
The SBU also stopped the activities of 8 organized criminal groups in different regions of Ukraine. For example, in the Kharkov region, a criminal group of 13 members of the regional MSEC was exposed, who for money sold fake medical certificates to draft dodgers in order to be deregistered from the military. During the searches, more than 650 thousand dollars were seized.
Similar schemes have also been identified in Rivne, Nikolaev and Transcarpathian regions. In total, officials involved in these schemes received millions of dollars in illegal “profits.”
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.
Background:
- On October 22, the SBU exposed the head of the Nikolaev regional MSEC, Vera Belyakova, in corruption schemes related to evading mobilization. During the searches, the official found more than $450 thousand in cash, as well as a collection of jewelry that she hid at different addresses.
- On October 4, the head of the Khmelnytsky regional MSEC Tatyana Krupa was found in her office to have 100 thousand dollars, medical documents with signs of forgery, as well as lists of “evaders” with names and fictitious diagnoses.
- 5 million 244 thousand dollars, 300 thousand euros, more than 5 million UAH, branded jewelry, as well as documents that may indicate money laundering through various business projects were seized from the official’s home. During the investigation, the head of MSEC tried to get rid of some of the money by throwing two bags with half a million dollars through the window.
- Law enforcement officers exposed a large-scale scheme in Rivne to evade mobilization through MSEC, which was organized by the head of a real estate agency and medical workers. During almost 50 searches, medical documentation and funds in the amount of 14.5 million hryvnia in different currencies were confiscated from suspects and medical workers in Rivne.
- Law enforcement officers exposed the chairman of MSEC Kharkov, who, together with 12 accomplices, provided men with fictitious documents for 2-5 thousand dollars to avoid mobilization. Law enforcement officers conducted 89 searches, during which they seized documents, rough notes, mobile phones, computer equipment, as well as more than 500 thousand dollars, almost 80 thousand euros, more than 1 million hryvnia and Russian rubles.
