Up to 10% of all prosecutors in Ukraine have status of people with disabilities. DOCUMENT
As of November 2024, 524 prosecutors in Ukraine are officially persons with disabilities, but there are no heads of regional prosecutor's offices among them.
According to Censor.NET, this was reported by the Prosecutor General's Office at the request of People's Deputy Oleksii Honcharenko.
It is noted that 831 people with disabilities work in the prosecutor's office. Most of them are in the regional and district prosecutor's offices (762 employees, of whom 496 are prosecutors). The Prosecutor General's Office has 66 such employees, including 26 prosecutors, and the SAPO has three, including two prosecutors.
"There are currently no employees with the status of a person with a disability among the heads of regional prosecutor's offices. That is, up to 10% of prosecutors are disabled!" - Honcharenko added.
Corruption scheme with fake certificates
In early October, law enforcement officers uncovered a corruption scheme in the Khmelnytskyi region involving the illegal issuance of disability status to prosecutors. The head of the Medical and Social Expert Commission (MSEC), Tetiana Krupa, and her son, who headed the regional Pension Fund, were detained on suspicion of involvement in the scheme.
According to the investigation, 49 prosecutors, including the regional prosecutor, took advantage of the scheme. As a result of the scandal, the head of the Khmelnytsky Regional Prosecutor's Office, Oleksii Oliinyk, resigned.
Government response and inspections in Ukraine
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on law enforcement agencies to take decisive action, calling corruption in the rear an "internal enemy." In response, the Prosecutor General's Office launched inspections in the regions.
In the Kharkiv region, it was found that the heads of the regional prosecutor's office did not receive disability payments, but all have long service pensions. In 2023, they earned from 430 thousand hryvnias each.
