“In the first three weeks of 2025, operatives of the Department of Strategic Investigations and National Police investigators blocked 35 corruption schemes involving, in particular, officials of executive authorities.”, — write: www.ukrinform.ua
In the first three weeks of 2025, operatives of the Department of Strategic Investigations and National Police investigators blocked 35 corruption schemes involving, in particular, officials of executive authorities.
In general, on the basis of the collected evidence, police investigators, under the procedural guidance of the prosecutor’s office, reported suspicions to 42 participants in corruption schemes, the total amount of bribes received by them is almost UAH 5 million.
Among the participants are officials of medical and educational institutions, district territorial centers of staffing and social support, executive authorities, deputies, as well as civilians.
The cost of their services or the amount for solving artificially created problems ranged from 300 to 25 thousand. dollars
“Having connections in state bodies and powerful powers, the perpetrators ‘helped’ solve problems that, in some cases, they created themselves,” the National Police noted.
Schemes related to evasion of mobilization, lease or use of land plots and property, connection to electricity and gas distribution networks, implementation of works with state funds, awarding of premiums and illegal crossing of the border were exposed.
In particular, the couple, who were detained by law enforcement officers of the Kyiv region, took 25,000 each. dollars to ensure fictitious hospitalization in several hospitals of the capital and the region, issuance of the necessary conclusions and extracts, their submission to the medical and social expert commission to determine the disability group, subsequent removal from military registration. They gave part of the money to employees of hospitals and district TCCs.
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The head of the department of one of the educational institutions of Odesa region for 45 thousand. hryvnia contributed to enrolling “applicants” for full-time education.
Her colleague from the Dnipropetrovsk region for 1.5 thousand. dollars helped in “passing” the exams, because the presence of a student card allowed postponing the draft.
In the Lviv region, law enforcement officers exposed the deputy mayor, department heads of city councils, and several deputies who received “kickbacks” for lobbying certain companies and winning tenders. In particular, two deputies received 800,000. UAH, and another for 20 thousand. promised to remove the obstacles he had created and to connect the company to the gas distribution network.
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Precautionary measures have been ordered for all suspects. The maximum penalty that can threaten criminals is 10 years of imprisonment.
As reported by Ukrinform, the police in Dnipro exposed medics of the military medical commission, who for 10,000 dollars falsified the results of HIV tests to avoid mobilization.
Photo: National Police