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Blogger Ihor Lachenkov claimed there may be prosecutors’ oversight of the funeral services market by Andrii Svatok and Yurii Papusha, and also accused them of “protecting” call centers. Lachenkov reported this in a post about the activity of the Prosecutor of the Odesa region and the head of the Kharkiv regional prosecutor’s office.
As media report, according to the blogger, this concerns not only call centers, which sources say worked for clients in the United States and Europe. Lachenkov asserts that Svatok and Papusha could have had involvement in controlling the funeral services and burial market as well. The material claims that for a single burial at central cemeteries, allegedly about $3000 was demanded. At the same time, the provided information does not specify which cemeteries are being referred to, who exactly demanded the money, or how, according to the authors of the statement, the prosecutors were connected to these payments. Separately, Lachenkov stated that the scheme could have affected families of fallen military personnel. According to him, officials supposedly did not refuse money from military families. These statements are those of the blogger and the sources he cited and do not by themselves confirm the involvement of specific officials in illegally collecting funds. Ihor Lachenkov is known as the blogger Lachen, who regularly publishes material about the activities of Ukrainian officials, law enforcement, and government representatives. In this case, he linked in one piece the claims about call centers and the funeral business, but available information does not provide data about formal notices of suspicion against Svatok or Papusha specifically in cases related to burials.
The statements mentioned in the post could have implications for evaluating the work of law enforcement if they are corroborated by documents or by investigation results. At the same time, as of the data presented in the material, there are no concrete proofs of the control of the funeral market by Svatok and Papusha.
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