Prosecutor General Kostin resigns
Prosecutor General Andrii Kostin announced his resignation.
This was reported by the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office, Censor.NET reports.
"Today, the President of Ukraine held a meeting of the National Security and Defence Council to discuss the obviously immoral situation with fake disabilities of state officials. Currently, inspections are underway at all levels of the state, and criminal proceedings are being investigated. Many shameful facts of abuse have been uncovered in the system of prosecutor's offices in Ukraine.
I believe that the position of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy is absolutely correct that not only should all unlawful decisions on disability, pension and other benefits be cancelled, but there should be clear legislative and organisational changes, as well as personal responsibility. Including political responsibility," the statement said.
Kostin thanked the President and the Board for their trust.
"But in this situation, I think it is right to resign from the post of Prosecutor General," he concluded.
Corruption in the MSEC
On 5 October, the State Bureau of Investigation reported that the head of the State Medical Expertise Commission in the Khmelnytskyi region, Krupa, was found to have $6 million in cash during searches. Suspilne noted that it was Tetiana Krupa, who is a member of the Servant of the People party in the Khmelnytskyi Regional Council. Tetiana Krupa has been working as the Chief Medical Officer of the Regional Forensic Medical Examination Commission since 2008.
It was also reported that the head of the Khmelnytskyi regional centre of the MSEC was detained and notified of suspicion of illegal enrichment.
Currently, the SBI is studying the lists found in the office of the head of the Khmelnytskyi MSEC Krupa. They contain names and fictitious diagnoses.
On Monday, 7 October, the Pecherskyi District Court imposed a pre-trial restraint in the form of detention on the head of the Khmelnytsky Regional Medical Examiner's Office, Tetiana Krupa.
On 10 October, Oleksandr Krupa, the son of Tetiana Krupa, resigned at his own request from the post of head of the Pension Fund in Khmelnytskyi region.
The National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption has announced that it will conduct a second full check of the declaration of Tetiana Krupa, head of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Centre for Medical and Social Expertise.
On 16 October, the Editor-in-Chief of Censor.NET, Yurii Butusov, published information that 49 prosecutors of the Khmelnytskyi region, headed by the regional prosecutor Oliinik, had received disability by "covering up" the corruption scheme of the servant of the people Krupa in the MSEC and the Pension Fund. In particular, the journalist provided a list of the names of all prosecutors and described the criminal scheme used.
Censor.NET featured a story about the head of the Cherkasy Regional Prosecutor's Office, Shevtsova, who, at the age of 42, receives a pension of 785,000.
A list of 30 heads of regional prosecutor's offices who receive the largest pensions has also been published.
