The head of the medical commission and at the same time a member of the regional assembly for the ruling party Servant of the Nation Tetjana Krupová prepared false certificates and bought them not only for prosecutors, but even for their wives.
Not only will the army not call a prosecutor with a certificate of disability, but it is basically impossible to fire him or transfer him. Out of fear that, despite the certificate of disability, they would still not have to enlist, they also sent their wives for false certificates of disability. Thanks to this, they were 100% sure that they would not be called to the front. Confirmation of invalidity for wives automatically exempts them from serving in the army, Ukrainska Pravda points out. After all, he has to take care of a “disabled” woman.
The disability certificate also guarantees social benefits. Although the prosecutors belong to the Ukrainian elite, they collected large sums.
Some prosecutors went for confirmation because of the war, but others had it for several years precisely because of the extra fees. Thus, they prepared the state budget by at least 54.1 million hryvnias (30 million crowns).
The newspaper reports that Oleksij Olijnyk, then still a simple plaintiff, was the first to receive disability benefits in 2017 at the age of 37. For the first time, he received 34,397 hryvnias (about 19,500 CZK). Last year, Olijnyk, the head of the regional prosecutor’s office, received 251,260 hryvnias (142 thousand crowns).
“Out of the entire leadership of the Khmelnytskyi regional prosecutor’s office and its departments, only one prosecutor did not have a certificate of disability, namely Oleksandr Hončar, the head of the Kamjanec-Podolskij district prosecutor’s office,” writes Ukrainska pravda.
Krupová and her son, the head of the regional branch of the pension fund, were detained by the police at the beginning of October. According to the investigators, the pair earned the equivalent of 139 million crowns by issuing false disability certificates. During the search, the suspect tried to throw two bags full of money out the window, the AFP agency wrote at the time, saying that it was the equivalent of 450 thousand euros (about 11.4 million CZK).