Fake Disability Bribe Scheme Exposed in Zaporizhzhia

In Zaporizhzhia, law enforcement officers exposed employees of a private clinic and a medical and social commission, who issued false disability certificates to men of draft age for money. The cost of the "service" was three thousand dollars.

The Department of Strategic Investigations of the National Police announced this on Facebook.

For an illegal fee, employees issued fictitious documents to establish a disability group for men of conscription age in order to avoid mobilization.

"Patients" were fictitiously admitted to the hospital and fictitious diagnoses were written. In addition, one of the participants simulated surgical operations on clients, and even made medical incisions for authenticity. The law enforcement officers conducted a series of searches of the doctors, as a result of which they seized: $39,500; 7,500 euros; more than 140,000 hryvnias; equipment: mobile phones, laptop, flash drives; draft records, foreign passports, medical documentation and doctors' stamps.

So far, three employees of a private clinic have been informed by investigators of suspicion of accepting an offer, promise or receiving an illegal benefit. They face punishment in the form of imprisonment for a term of five to ten years with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for a term of up to three years, with confiscation of property.

The pre-trial investigation is ongoing.

Earlier, it became known that the Khmelnytskyi law enforcement agency exposed a former official of the regional military committee , who promised a man of conscription age to prepare documents for a postponement, of taking a bribe.

We also wrote that MSEC was exposed in Lviv on the scheme of fictitious certificates.