The Security Service of Ukraine exposed a large -scale corruption scheme in the Kyiv City State Administration. In the center of the case is the former head of the Social Policy Department Ruslan Svitny, who is suspected of stealing 75 million hryvnias, who was supposed to go to palliative care to the seriously ill people of Kiev.
According to the SBU, the official organized a multi -level scheme of theft of budget funds, attracting his deputies, heads of medical institutions and businessmen. Fictitious purchases of medicines, design of luxury cars and luxury housing as "patient needs" - all this is only part of the exposed scam.
The essence of the scheme was simple: through controlled enterprises, officials concluded contracts for providing palliative sick products, medicines and services. In fact, much of the money was simply "mastered" - spent on the purchase or rent of expensive cars, apartments, and also withdrew cash through fictitious services.
All reporting documentation was legal - the property was allegedly used for patients. But during the investigation, it turned out that it was a normal cover to bring money to private use.
The first in the spring of 2025 were two deputies of light, chief physician of the Kiev psychiatric hospital and another person who helped to legalize the scheme. Subsequently, it was possible to reach the main organizer.
In addition to the light, suspicion of Part 5 of Art. 191 of the Criminal Code also received three entrepreneurs who helped to withdraw budget funds from control. According to the investigation, they withdrew cash from the accounts due to fictitious provision of services and transferred a share to the participants of the scheme.
The case also includes the so -called "shadow curator" of the Department of Social Policy, which is now hiding abroad. Law enforcement officers do not rule out that new suspects will appear in the near future.
Currently, all those involved, including Ruslan, are charged with the appropriation or waste of property in particularly large sizes. The maximum sanction of the article is 12 years in prison with confiscation.
The case, which has already received loud resonance, has become another testimony to how individual officials continue to earn the most vulnerable - seriously ill patients who should receive assistance rather than become a tool for enrichment.
Investigative actions are ongoing.
