Comprehensive changes in MSEC will take place from 1 January 2025 - Liashko
Health Minister Viktor Liashko promised comprehensive changes to the MSEC during his speech in the Verkhovna Rada.
According to Censor.NET, this was reported by MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak.
"The minister's answer on the MSEC:
- a bill is being prepared (from 2023) to replace the system
- the bill is already in the government, then registration in the Parliament
- instead of 500+ MSECs, there will be a team of experts - doctors where treatment/rehabilitation takes place
- the system will be as digitalised as possible, which is supposed to remove the risks of corruption and the human factor," he said.
According to the MP, Health Minister Liashko promised comprehensive changes to the MSEC from 1 January 2025.
"Until then, the system will work as it has been working with certain point improvements," he quoted the minister as saying.
Corruption in the MSEC
On 5 October, the State Bureau of Investigation reported that the head of the MSEC in the Khmelnytskyi region, Krupa, was found to have $6 million in cash during searches. Suspilne noted that it was Tetiana Krupa, who is a member of the "Servant of the People" party in the Khmelnytskyi Regional Council. Tetiana Krupa has been working as the Chief Doctor of the Regional Forensic Medical Examination Commission since 2008.
It was also reported that the head of the Khmelnytskyi regional centre of the MSEC was detained and notified of suspicion of illegal enrichment.
Currently, the SBI is studying the lists found in the office of the head of the Khmelnytskyi MSEC Krupa. They contain names and fictitious diagnoses.
On Monday, 7 October, the Pecherskyi District Court imposed a pre-trial restraint in the form of detention on the head of the Khmelnytskyi Regional MSEC, Tetiana Krupa.
On 10 October, Oleksandr Krupa, the son of Tetiana Krupa, resigned at his own request from the post of head of the Pension Fund in Khmelnytskyi Oblast.
The National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption has announced that it will conduct a second full check of the declaration of Tetiana Krupa, head of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Centre for Medical and Social Expertise.
On 16 October, the editor-in-chief of Censor.NET, Yurii Butusov, published information that 49 prosecutors of the Khmelnytskyi region, headed by the regional prosecutor Oliinik, had received disability by "covering up" the corruption scheme of the servant of the people Krupa in the MSEC and the Pension Fund. In particular, the journalist provided a list of the names of all prosecutors and described the criminal scheme used.
A list of 30 heads of regional prosecutor's offices who receive the highest pensions has also been published.
Following the scandal, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy convened a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council, which resulted in the resignation of Prosecutor General Andrii Kostin and the approval of a plan to reform the MSEC.
