Not all will remain in office: what awaits hundreds of prosecutors with disabilities
15 July 21:06
The Prosecutor General’s Office has initiated disciplinary proceedings against 348 prosecutors with disability status. This was announced on July 15 by Prosecutor General of Ukraine Ruslan Kravchenko on his official Telegram channel, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports.
The total number of prosecutors with a diagnosed disability in the prosecution system is currently 484. Of these, 41 prosecutors have already submitted their resignations, and the management has granted them.
The Office of the Prosecutor General notes that the decision to dismiss prosecutors on such grounds is made by the Qualification and Disciplinary Commission of Prosecutors (QDCP). The Prosecutor General does not have the authority to terminate the powers of officials on his own.
At the same time, the cases of 136 prosecutors who have a childhood disability, cancer, war veterans’ status or have suffered irreparable health losses are not subject to consideration by the Qualification and Disciplinary Commission of Prosecutors.
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The issue of massive acquisition of disability status by prosecutors has caused a public outcry and has been in the spotlight for more than nine months. The Prosecutor General’s Office emphasizes that the verification process will not have a selective approach: each case will be considered separately, in accordance with the law.
The process has been launched. We are waiting for the decision. And it will be a decision not based on emotions, but on the law,” Kravchenko summarized.
As a reminder, in the fall of 2024, Ukraine was shaken by a loud scandal around the head of the Khmelnytsky MSEC, Tetiana Krupa, who issued “disability” to 50 prosecutors.
It was a publication by 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 “fake disabilities” to themselves.
Media journalists learned that almost all prosecutors of Khmelnytsky region were found to be disabled of the 2nd group, according to the decision of the chief doctor of the MSEC, Tetyana Krupa. For years they have been receiving and continue to receive disability pensions from the state, 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 that Krupa received from 30 citizens between October 2 and 4, or about $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.
Yuriy Butusov explained that the essence of the scheme was that Tetyana Krupa’s disability was most often issued to women. After all, if a disabled wife has a disability, her husband takes care of the disabled person and thus is automatically excluded from the list of those eligible for mobilization. And the statistics of evaders are concealed, because no one would notice that women are the ones who register disabilities.
Prosecutors do not need dividends from disability as cash payments. Every prosecutor in the region has dozens of hectares of land, apartments, houses, and cars. However, according to the labor law, disabled people have an advantage in employment and it is much more difficult to fire them when they are transferred from one position to another. The presence of a disabled wife is an additional reason to prevent a prosecutor from being transferred from his “home” region, where he has all his friends, property, and flows, to some other region that is not as “convenient.”
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