Corruption

Chief Prosecutor of Khmelnytskyi region dismissed after scandal involving ‘disability’ of 50 prosecutors

Oleksiy Oliynyk was dismissed from the post of head of the Khmelnytsky Regional Prosecutor’s Office after a scandal involving the issuance of “disability” certificates to him and 49 subordinates. This was reported by the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports

“By order of the Prosecutor General Oleksiy Oliynyk was dismissed from the administrative position of the head of the Khmelnytsky Regional Prosecutor’s Office at his own request,” the statement said.

According to the agency, the Prosecutor General’s Office is continuing an internal investigation into the registration of disability groups by employees of the Khmelnytsky Regional Prosecutor’s Office.

Other prosecutor’s offices have also initiated an inspection.

It should be noted that the Office of the Prosecutor General responded to the scandal surrounding the head of the Khmelnytsky MSEC, Tetiana Krupa, who issued “disability” to 50 prosecutors. An investigation into this fact has been launched.

The scandal with the “disability” of 50 prosecutors

This refers to the publication of the editor-in-chief of Censor.Net, Yuriy Butusov, who stated that the prosecutor of Khmelnytsky region and 49 of his subordinates had allegedly issued themselves with a ‘fake disability’.

Media journalists learned that almost all the prosecutors of Khmelnytskyi region were found to be disabled of the 2nd group, according to the decision of the chief doctor of the MSEC, Tatiana Krupa. They have been receiving disability pensions from the state for years and continue to do so, according to the decisions of the head of the Pension Fund, Oleksandr Krupa, the son of the corruption suspect.

“During a search of Krupa’s workplace at the regional medical examination commission, the State Bureau of Investigation found $104,000, which Krupa received from 30 people between 2 and 4 October, i.e. approximately $3,000 to $4,000 per person for obtaining a disability certificate. The corruption scheme worked on a daily and massive scale, on a first-come, first-served basis,” Butusov wrote.

What was the corruption “scheme” of Tetiana Krupa?

Yurii Butusov explains that the essence of the scheme was that Tetiana Krupa’s disability was most often registered by women. After all, if a disabled wife has a disabled husband, the husband takes care of the disabled person and thus is automatically excluded from the list of those eligible for mobilisation. And the statistics of evaders are concealed, because no one would notice that women are the ones who register disability.

“Corruption has become an instrument of anti-state actions in the region to disrupt mobilisation,” Butusov is convinced.

Which of the prosecutors in Khmelnytskyi region have registered their disability

According to the decision of the MSEC, there are almost no healthy prosecutors left in Khmelnytskyi region. If we calculate the total amount of pensions received by the 50 disabled prosecutors we identified from taxpayers, it amounts to at least UAH 54.1 million.

They have been granted the status of a disabled person:

1. Oleksiy Leonidovych Oliinyk, prosecutor of Khmelnytskyi region;
2. Iryna Oleksandrivna Oliinyk, the wife of the regional prosecutor, the prosecutor of the Khmelnytsky region prosecutor’s office until 2024, according to our data, she has now been transferred to the regional TCC of the Ministry of Defense;
3. Oleksandr Hryhorovych Martyniuk, head of the prosecutor’s office department;
4. Serhiy Stanislavovych Nagrebetskyi, Deputy Head of the Prosecutor’s Office Department;
5. Oliynyk Roman Volodymyrovych, head of the Shepetiv District Prosecutor’s Office;
6. Galus Oleg Petrovych, head of the department of the regional prosecutor’s office;
7. Oleksiy Petrovych Lugovy, head of the department of the regional prosecutor’s office;
8. Lazarenko Volodymyr Volodymyrovych, head of the department of the regional prosecutor’s office;
9. Shcherbatiuk Oleksandr Yevhenovich, head of the prosecutor’s office department, according to our information, he is currently one of the leaders in the state penitentiary service;
10. Nikityuk Petro Hryhorovych, head of the department of the regional prosecutor’s office;
11. Oleh Oleksandrovych Shpak, head of the department of the regional prosecutor’s office;
12. Sidelnikov Ruslan Viktorovych, head of the department of the regional prosecutor’s office;
13. Mykhailo Pavlovich Voytiuk, head of the regional prosecutor’s department;
14. Oleg Petrovych Kozlyuk, head of the department of the regional prosecutor’s office;
15. Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Kokhanskyi, head of the department of the regional prosecutor’s office;
16. Mykola Vasyliovych Maksymchuk, head of the department of the regional prosecutor’s office;
17. Ihor Mykhailovych Barakhtenko, head of the department of the regional prosecutor’s office;
18. Oleg Mykolayovych Lviv, head of the department of the regional prosecutor’s office;
19. Olga Petrivna Veselovska, prosecutor of the regional prosecutor’s office;
20. Sarelo Volodymyr Petrovych, prosecutor of the regional prosecutor’s office;
21. Oksana Omelyanivna Lisova, prosecutor of the regional prosecutor’s office;
22. Roman Leonidovych Romanyuk, prosecutor of the regional prosecutor’s office;
23. Vitaliy Oleksandrovych Balyuk, prosecutor of the regional prosecutor’s office;
24. Yulia Anatoliivna Lun, prosecutor of the regional prosecutor’s office;
25. Vitaly Ihorovych Pronozyuk, prosecutor of the regional prosecutor’s office;
26. Oleksandr Volodymyrovych Halyshuk, prosecutor of the regional prosecutor’s office;
27. Olga Oleksiivna Yaremchuk, prosecutor of the regional prosecutor’s office;
28. Oleksandr Viktorovych Bazan, head of the district prosecutor’s office;
29. Oliynyk Roman Volodymyrovych, head of the district prosecutor’s office;
30. Serhii Ivanovych Stetsyuk, head of the Volochysk District Prosecutor’s Office;
31. Komar Ivan Vasyliovych, head of the district prosecutor’s office of the city of Khmelnytskyi;
32. Oleksandr Tsezarovych Terletsky, deputy head of the district prosecutor’s office;
33. Bandura Boris Borisovych;
34. Yuriy Mykhailovych Zubyk;
35. Arseniuk Viktor Mykolayovych;
36. Lysyuk Ivan Viktorovych;
37. Oleksandr Ivanovych Zaremba;
38. Mykhailo Anatoliyovych Polishchuk;
39. Andriy Stanislavovych the Blessed;
40. Evgeny Oleksandrovich Vytiuk;
41. Tatyana Evgenivna Bodnaruk;
42. Skrynnyk Maksym Vadimovych;
43. Lutak Bohdan Vasyliovych;
44. Kushnir Dmytro Volodymyrovych;
45. Iryna Mykolaivna Guchynska;
46. ​​Yuriy Antonovych Tuz;
47. Lyubov Volodymyrivna Vasilieva;
48. Vitaly Mykolayovych Prokopchuk, prosecutor of the District Prosecutor’s Office;
49. Marina Vasylievna Pitel;
50. Serhii Anatoliyovych Sukhorebry, prosecutor of the Letychiv district prosecutor’s office;
51. Nakonechnyi Serhii Oleksandrovych, head of the Khmelnytskyi District Prosecutor’s Office.

UPDATED

In this list, under number 5, Yuriy Butusov entered Romas Serhiy Ivanovich, head of the regional prosecutor’s department.

The prosecutor’s office informed Komersant.Info that Butusov made a mistake.

“Butusov made a mistake by writing under point 5 – S.I. Romasya, who is not and has never been disabled, but receives a pension based on years of service, therefore, accordingly, he reflects in the declaration the amount of the received pension, which is three times less than the disability pension (7148 UAH.). The author corrected it within an hour,” the prosecutor’s office said.

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