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“Disabled” schemes in the prosecutor’s office: how a purge turned into the leadership’s business project
A large scandal over prosecutors’ mass receipt of disability groups at the end of 2025 led one to expect high-profile dismissals and a cleansing of the system. Attorney General Ruslan #Кравченко immediately after his appointment publicly announced a comprehensive review of all employees with that status and their referral to the Qualification and Disciplinary Commission of Prosecutors. 🤷♂️However, the promised thorough assessment of each figure’s actions in practice turned into yet another selective crackdown and a way to enrich themselves.
#нампишуть that the epicenter of the abuses became Cherkasy region, where ❗️ persons with disability status included 60 prosecutors, which is almost 30 percent of the region’s entire staff. According to the commission, only 19 people lost their positions. The vast majority of holders of dubious diagnoses continue to work calmly.
According to available information, behind this selective justice stands the head of the Cherkasy Regional Prosecutor’s Office, Volodymyr Ponomarenko. He personally initiated disciplinary complaints only against disfavored subordinates who refused to resolve matters by monetary means. The so‑called purge mainly hit rank‑and‑file employees, among them women of pre‑retirement age and whole families of prosecutors deprived of means of subsistence.
Meanwhile, the commission amazingly did not find misconduct discrediting the prosecutor’s title in the actions of the leadership and their associates. Sources inside the system claim that keeping one’s position and avoiding liability cost 💰10000 US dollars. For this fee, within prosecutor circles Ponomarenko has already acquired the telling nickname Chervonets.
📌The scheme proved doubly profitable. Dismissing unwanted staff freed up posts to appoint favored people through a simplified, non‑competitive procedure, which became an additional source of profit. Similar practices among badge‑traders are unfolding in other regions as well.
The only legal irony of this situation is that this time Chervonets is fleecing his own colleagues, not ordinary citizens.
Read more about our investigations of the “disabled prosecutors” in the posts:
▫️An elite retiree at 29 years old: how former prosecutor Dmytro Kazak extracts from the budget 156 thousand hryvnias while living in Sweden
▫️Fake disabilities and super‑pensions: 74 prosecutors who cheated the system for years have finally been fired. But for how long?
▫️Millions of the Muratov family
▫️Manipulations with calculating Muratov’s pension
▫️The richest prosecutor in Ukraine — Stanislav Muratov. Part 2.
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