Several Ukrainian medical institutions conducted searches due to suspicion of a large -scale appropriation of budgetary funds. It is a fraudulent use of a medical guarantee program coordinated by the Ministry of Health. According to preliminary estimates, the amount of losses is millions of hryvnias.
According to investigators, managers and individual employees of medical institutions in 2024 concluded contracts with the National Health Service of Ukraine (NSAU) and introduced false information to the electronic health care system. The reports referred to thousands of allegedly provided medical services that were not really.
In this way, the hospital "mastered" state funds, receiving monthly funding for fictitiously treated patients. It is a suspicion of a crime under Part 5 of Art. 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - "appropriation or waste of property in particularly large sizes".
Investigators of the Bureau of Economic Security together with the National Police Strategic Investigation Department and under the procedural guidance of the Prosecutor General's office conducted dozens of searches - both in the medical institutions and at the place of residence of their employees.
In the course of investigative actions, the primary documentation was seized, on the basis of which the accrual of the NSAU was carried out. It was these documents that became a formal basis for paying budgetary funds for "treatment", which was not actually conducted.
The focus of the investigation is not only specific medical institutions. Law enforcement officers also check the possible involvement of NSAU officials and the Ministry of Health, who could know or be involved in fixing false data and agreeing payments.
It is a national budget program "Implementation of the Program of State Guarantees of Public Health Care". It was within the framework of this program that in 2024 Ukrainian hospitals received considerable funds from the budget.
The investigation is still ongoing. In the field of view of law enforcement officers there are dozens of other health care institutions that could act on a similar scheme. Law enforcement officers are preparing suspicions to the first defendants of the case.
The MoH does not officially comment on the situation.
