A fraudulent job arrangement was brought to light at the central military hospital, where approximately UAH 2.6 million was embezzled. The scheme’s architect extracted the money from the accounts of people who were nominally employed.
A dishonest hiring practice was uncovered and stopped at the Central Military Clinical Institution, during which, as confirmed, around UAH 2.6 million was pilfered, declared General Prosecutor Ruslan Kravchenko, making public the recorded conversations, UNN reports.
“The Central Military Clinical Facility” constitutes a location where physicians labor at the uttermost limit of their abilities on a daily basis. It represents the country’s medical rear echelon, where patients’ critical states and doctors’ heavy workloads are typical. For that reason, the scheme, revealed and put to a stop by the General Prosecutor’s Office in collaboration with the SBU, is particularly heartless. The inquiry ascertained: the chief of the hospital’s security and defense organization department arranged the fictitious engagement of persons who were merely formally listed in the service
– Kravchenko reported on social media platforms.
“They did not fulfill any duties, but they consistently received a salary,” he remarked.
According to the General Prosecutor, “funds withdrawn from their bank cards, according to the probe, were routinely removed by the scheme’s organizer.”
“This was achieved through bogus timesheets, formal documents, and an utter pretense of “presence.” Essentially, “ghost employees” in the medical and military fields, whereas actual specialists operate under significant pressure and lack of sufficient staff,” Kravchenko emphasized.
According to him, “the documented dialogues solely emphasize the degree of cynicism.”
“One of the implicated individuals hoped to be dismissed from military duty utilizing falsified papers, stating, “they are awaiting me at a foreign IT company.” Another female was registered at the major military hospital merely for maternity leave and experience, even though in reality she worked as a nail technician and calmly discussed this in conversation with her… fortune teller,” the General Prosecutor communicated.
Kravchenko stressed: “It is absolutely crucial to grasp: in times of war, this does not represent mere “domestic corruption”. The deceitful withdrawal of personnel deteriorates the capacity of the military medical structure, disheartens those who genuinely save lives, manipulates personnel records, and erodes faith in defense establishments.”
“The value of the illicitly taken funds has been verified to be around 2.6 million hryvnias. A preliminary judicial investigation is underway, during which the definitive amount of losses will be determined,” the General Prosecutor pointed out.
As per the General Prosecutor, the official faces a sentence of up to 12 years of imprisonment for stealing budgetary resources in especially large quantities utilizing his official position. His two associates are charged with dodging military service through deceit during a state of martial law.
“We are proceeding with our work,” Kravchenko emphasized.