Tetiana K., who led a medical commission in the Ukrainian city of Khmelnytskyi, is suspected of taking large bribes and amassing wealth that includes multiple luxury cars and foreign properties.
Ukrainian investigators found around USD 6 million in cash, plus jewelry and documents indicating how funds were laundered through business projects. At one point, she allegedly tried to toss USD 500,000 bags out a window.
Photo: SBI
Polish prosecutors got involved when the General Inspector of Financial Information flagged big transfers to accounts in Kraków, Wrocław, and Szczecin.
Authorities froze these assets and informed Ukrainian officials, who discovered evidence of at least a USD 590,000 transfer to Poland. Tetiana K.’s husband and son, both former government figures, are also implicated.
Local media say the forged disability certificates reached even top officials in the Khmelnytskyi prosecutor’s office, prompting Ukraine’s prosecutor general to resign.
Tetiana K. remains in custody while both countries work to trace missing assets and determine how extensively the bribery network operated.
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Source: RMF24, OSW, Antikor