Doctors who sold diagnoses to evaders will be tried in Odesa

Investigators completed the investigation of the case of the 44-year-old head of one of the departments of the Odesa Psychiatric Hospital and his 66-year-old father, who worked in the same department as a resident doctor. For bribes, relatives "diagnosed" conscripts with mental illnesses that they did not have and received large amounts of money for it.

The dealers were exposed and documented by the employees of the strategic investigations department in the Odesa region of the DSR NPU with the investigators of the police department No. 1 of the Odesa district police department No. 1.

During the pre-trial investigation, the police established that the son and father had established a "business" on men who are subject to mobilization due to their age, but do not want to serve in the army. For a monetary reward, relatives issued medical reports on mental illnesses to "clients" to avoid conscription, as well as certificates of inpatient treatment in a psychiatric hospital to present to employees of the territorial recruiting and social support center.

The law enforcement officers detained the perpetrators during the sale of one such device, which cost the "client" 165,000 hryvnias. In the office, the head of the department handed the latter a certificate signed by his own hand and by his father, with information that the man had allegedly been in their inpatient treatment for two weeks, as well as a prescription for mental disorders. "Hippocrates" received $1,000 of ill-gotten gains from the man as a deposit. The conscript had to pay the rest of the stipulated amount after receiving a conclusion with a false diagnosis of mental illness.

The police detained the medics at the scene of the crime. During the searches of their offices and residences, the investigators seized $1,000, which the parties received for their "services", and other money, official documents, "draft records", mobile phones and other things that were important in the case. During the pre-trial investigation, the funds were seized. The court will decide on them.

For the detainees, the court chose preventive measures in the form of detention with the right to deposit bail in the amount of UAH 241,920, which they took advantage of. However, the offenders did not resume work: at the request of the investigators, the court suspended them from their positions.

Currently, the indictment has been sent to the court. According to Part 3 of Art. 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, offenders face up to 10 years in prison with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for a period of up to three years, with confiscation of property. 

We will remind, earlier the employees of the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) exposed the head of the Khmelnytskyi MSEC and her son for illegal enrichment .

We also wrote that in Rivne, a scheme to evade mobilization through MSEC was exposed.