More than 60 prosecutors in Khmelnytskyi region have "disabilities": Kostin urges them to undergo re-examination

Prosecutor General Andrii Kostin spoke about the first results of an internal investigation into prosecutors' disabilities. He said that 61 prosecutors in the Khmelnytskyi region alone have disabilities.

The official investigation is being conducted not only in the Khmelnytskyi region, but throughout the country, and concerns prosecutors at all levels, including the Prosecutor General's Office, Kostin said in the "Facts of the Week" program. He called on prosecutors whose disability is in doubt to undergo a second examination.

"As of today, it has been established that 61 prosecutors of Khmelnytskyi prosecutor's offices have disabilities. These are the Khmelnytskyi regional prosecutor's office and district prosecutor's offices in the Khmelnytskyi region. 80% of them – 50 people – had received disabilities before the full-scale invasion. It is very important to establish under what circumstances they became disabled because the share of such employees in the Khmelnytskyi region is very high," said the Prosecutor General.

He noted that he had initiated the creation of a working group that will include international experts who "will help to comprehensively assess the situation and develop solutions to prevent similar abuses in the future."

Kostin also said that he supports the Health Ministry's initiative to comprehensively reform the MSEC system. According to him, it is necessary to ensure fairness, in particular in establishing the payments that people receive in connection with disability.

Recently, journalists found out that almost all prosecutors in Khmelnytskyi region have a second-grade disability, which was "diagnosed" by the scandalous head of the regional MSEC, Tetiana Krupa. Thanks to this, prosecutors continue to receive pensions from the state – sometimes hundreds of thousands of hryvnias a year.

Tetiana Krupa and her son Oleksandr, who held a senior position in the local department of the Pension Fund of Ukraine, were caught in corruption on October 4, 2024. The Pechersk District Court of Kyiv imposed on Krupa a pre-trial restraint in the form of arrest for 60 days (with an alternative bail of UAH 500 million).

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